Try New Tools – Fani Cortes

In my Death Valley digital photography workshop, Fani Cortes shot with a DSLR modified to make infrared images. She’d go to specific locations and make specific images that would highlight the strengths of this effect. On occasion, she made full-spectrum images that looked identical to...

When Two Images Are Better Than One – Tom Barry

– In my Death Valley digital photography workshop, Tom Barry tried something new. He began shooting images to present side-by-side in diptychs. This formal device gave his images a smart new cinematic quality. This planned experiment opened up a whole new way of thinking and...

Following Up On Break Throughs – Danielle Vick

In my Death Valley digital photography workshop, Danielle Vick made a break through in her composition skills and found a whole new way of looking. Instead of looking for the next new thing, she stayed focused, went back and repeated her success, went deeper with...

Seeing With New Eyes

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscape but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust   Increasingly, we all find ourselves photographing at locations where many have photographed before us. When I encounter this I ask myself many questions. Here are a...

Keep Current Projects Visible

These are two book covers for projects I’m currently developing. I create visual reminders for projects I’m currently working on. Then I place them in my working environment. They constantly prompt me to consider the work I’m developing at many times and in many moods....

Developing Personal Projects

As a fine artist, I advance my career with personal projects. Personal projects also create a clearer direction for and develop greater meaning in my life. My life would be unfulfilled without them You don’t need to have a fine art career to benefit from...

Mastering the Mysterious Multi-Select in Lightroom

Julianne Kost offers excellent tips for navigating Lightroom efficiently. View more Lightroom 3 and CS5 Videos here. Learn more in my digital photography workshops.

Save 15% On Photomatix HDR Software

Get 15% off Photomatix with this code – johnpaulcaponigro. Beyond Photoshop, there are a number of HDR software options, both plug-ins and stand-alones. Some of the better-known programs include Artizen HDR, easyHDR, FDRTools, pfstools, HDR Efex Pro, and Photomatix. HDRsoft’s Photomatix is the longest standing...

New Image – Refraction LXXVII

I issue quantum editions of select images from my series Refraction; the viewer can choose how many and which versions they would like created for them. To date most of these editions offer variations in the number and position of the lights within them. In...

New Image – Refraction 56

My series Refraction has challenged the way I think in so many ways from the moment the first image appeared. The series is informed by modern physics and the nature of light. An observer influences what’s observed. The questions they ask and the way they...