What Can you Learn from Metadata? Have you ever looked at a photo that you’ve downloaded to your computer and noticed that it was blurry or grainy (full of digital noise)? Don’t delete it! Instead, learn what caused the problem […]
What Can you Learn from Metadata? Have you ever looked at a photo that you’ve downloaded to your computer and noticed that it was blurry or grainy (full of digital noise)? Don’t delete it! Instead, learn what caused the problem […]
Have you ever wanted to shoot a scene in low light but worried about hand-holding your camera for the slow shutter speed that was required? In this blog post, I’ll share some tips on how to brace yourself for these […]
I’ll never forget the photo I missed in Shanghai in 2008. I’d been taking photos with my film SLR camera for years. I had memorized the settings to use for the kind of photos I usually took. But, I had […]
Do you love to take photos while you’re on vacation? Does that make you a travel photographer? Do you find yourself wondering about them? After all, what does a travel photographer shoot, anyway? Travel photographers tell stories. Travel photographers tell […]
I’ve been playing with my iPhone camera lately and discovering how much fun and creative it can be. In a previous blog post, I talked about how to use your iPhone camera in burst mode. (You can read it here: Using […]
I taught a quick iPhoneography class, earlier this month, at the Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center. Why was I teaching iPhoneography? Because photographer Chase Jarvis is right. The best camera really is the one you have with you. Whether you’re traveling […]