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When the best camera is the wrong camera
Next time, I'll follow her lead and just bring the point and shoot Every now and again someone who sees some of my work tells me, ‘Your pictures are really good, you must have a really good camera.” I...
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The Curse of the Thumbnail
How many new images did you look at today? How many of those were on websites, or on a tablet or iPhone? Probably too many to count, I’d guess. A few years ago we consumed our photographs mostly in...
View ArticleTelling richer stories – a hybrid video/stills approach to children’s...
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about what children’s photography is actually about. You’d think it has a simple answer – it’s about taking photos of kids (duh). That’s what we do, but that’s not...
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How I learned to get out my own way and shoot more
Why do we why find it so hard to do the things we know we should do? I don’t even mean exercising or eating the right things here – I’m just thinking about taking photographs. As keen photographers of...
View ArticleA young girl’s adventure – digital storytelling revisited
We take photographs of our children for one main reason – to capture memories of the people we love. Images help us remember what they were like when they’re all grown up and living half a world away...
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Behind the scenes at an editorial portrait shoot
Earlier this year national medical magazine PracticeLink hired me for an assignment to shoot an editorial portrait of Dr James Melisi, a surgeon who had recently moved to Santa Fe from the Washington...
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Using a Neutral Density Graduated Filter – not just for landscapes
Normally thought of as a tool for landscape photographers, neutral density graduated filters (or ND grad filters) do a simple thing well. They reduce the amount of light hitting the sensor from one...
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How to blur the background in your photographs
Cute girl? Check. Blurred background? Check. Canon 5D II, EF 85mm f/1.8 at f2/.8. The portrait photographer’s go-to look often has the subject in sharp focus, but the background out of focus. This...
View Article“Same time next year?” Making a regular date for family photographs
This week a quick video on how setting a regular time for your own family photo session helps you create a lasting archive of your kids as they grow and change. Music: “Evening Seaside” by Inspector 22...
View ArticleDo You Suffer From GAS – Gear Acquisition Syndrome?
Gear is a necessary and enjoyable part of the photography process. But sometimes we can spend way too long thinking about good gear, and not enough working to improve our photography. In this guest...
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