Bring Your A Game – The Story Behind The Image

Illumination XXXI, 2014 It was one of my best sessions. I had come prepared. I knew the location well. My father first brought me to the Point Lobos region when I was very young. Later, during my college years, I spent more time exploring the...

Exploring Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park

Jose Senna While Maine’s Acadia National Park is one of the most visited parks in the nation, most visitors don’t make it up to the lesser known Schoodic peninsula (about an hour and half away from Bar Harbor by road, less by boat). During my...

15 Questions Answered

Alumni Dianne Morton interviewed me as part of her graduate studies. She asked great questions, which I recommend you answer yourself. Here are my answers. What inspired you to become a photographer? I was always driven to make images – even before I could talk....

Create Sophisticated Motion Effects With Powerful Photoshop’s Path Blur Filter

Photoshop CC's recent addition to its Blur Gallery, Path Blur offers a creative and flexible way to add directional motion to your images in postproduction. Insights Members can login to read the full article.Email: Login or Sign up

Sketches From Acadia, Maine

During my recent Fall Foliage / Acadia Maine Workshop we explored many of the highlights of Acadia National Park; Cadillac Mountain, Sand Beach, Thunder Hole, Monument Beach, Sieur de Monts, Wonderland and more …  including an overnight stay on the Schoodic Peninsula at The Schoodic...

How A Just Few Words Can Change Your Perception / Photography – Sean Kernan

An exercise too late for the book Looking Into The Light. “I write to find out what I have to say.” Charles Wright That’s how creativity works. You can try to conceptualize it all you want, but when you begin, it starts to come out...

How To Use Focus To Make Selections In Photoshop CC

Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to make selections based on depth of field using Focus Mask to help isolate portions of your image for further editing. View more Photoshop Videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital imaging workshops.

14 Essential Tips For Night Photography

The high ISO capability of today's new camera models is a true game changer. It opens up a range of light previously unexplored in the history of photography. Fearing noise, many people unnecessarily limit themselves to the lowest ISO setting and never explore this incredible...

Check Your Inbox For Insights eNews Today

My enews Insights broadcasts today at 3:15 pm EST. In this issue … I’m announcing our next Fly Antarctica / Sail Across The Circle Workshop. Participants were thrilled this winter and we can’t wait to go back! Space is limited so reserve yours now! There’s 1...

New Improvements to Camera Raw 8.2 in Photoshop CC – Julianne Kost

“Julieanne takes a close look at the feature enhancements and refinements made to the Crop tool, workflow settings, and batch saving capabilities in Adobe Camera Raw. In addition she also covers improvements made to the Spot Removal Tool, Noise Reduction, Local Adjustment Brush, and Histogram.”...