If you follow me on Facebook, you know that I participated in a 10-day challenge of a daily impactful travel photo posted without explanation. It turns out that I somewhat disliked the requirement to avoid any narrative. I happen to love talking about my pictures – well represented by my…
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My most useful photography-related acquisition of all time has nothing to do with the process of taking pictures, per se. Instead, it has everything to do with what I do with the camera in between shots. For years, I carried my camera around my neck, as many other people do.…
What makes a photograph interesting? How do you capture the viewer’s eye and entice it to linger? How do you make an impression that will cause your audience to keep coming back to your pictures? If you are looking for a silver bullet, I am pretty sure you are smart…
Purists and professional landscape photographers would scoff at the notion of trying to get a great shot outside of the confines of the “golden hour”. In mid-day sunlight, the shadows are way too strong, the colors are way too faded, and nothing looks good. But when you are traveling, you…
I am an “opportunity” photographer. I rarely scout locations or stand in the same spot for hours waiting for that perfect lighting. My photographs are essentially by-product of tourist explorations. I walk around, stop here or there, something catches my eye, I pull my camera up, et voilà. That results…
Why HDR? These days capabilities of photo-processing software are such that any resonably exposed shot can be turned into a brilliant one in post. Especially if you shoot in RAW, which gives you an ability to manipulate the entire data from your camera’s sensor. Nonetheless, the dynamic range that…
Patience is not a virtue I can claim ample possession of. In my own photography – if I had to label the genre in which I mostly operate I would call it urban tourist landscape – I tend to grade myself on the “postcard shot” scale. While I am able…
I first came across Trey Ratcliff’s website, Stuck In Customs, about a year ago. Given his huge worldwide following and my general predisposition to travel photography, it is quite surprising that I did not discover his work earlier. I almost instantly became a fan of HDR photography. Scroll through Trey’s…
After my latest photobook review, in which I proclaimed Adoramapix my new favorite among the several services, the folks at Picaboo, which was my “winner” of an earlier review, got into action. I was contacted by a nice lady from Picaboo, who informed me of some of the new features…
It has been almost a year and a half since I performed my review of three photo-book services (MyPublisher, Picaboo and Blurb). Since then, I did not have much time to engage in projects that would either involve any of the aforementioned services or bring me in contact with something…
[Update Apr 16, 2010] If you are here because you’re looking for comparisons of various photo-books software – and why else would you be on this page, anyway? – I also invite you to also read my most recent follow-up at this link ————————– Having finished with Travelog, I spent…
We always go on holidays equipped with a camera – who doesn’t these days? – and quite often bring a camcorder as well. Coming back home with several hours of raw video footage and a few hundred photographs always seems like a good idea when you tape or shoot, but…