Are you authentic when it comes to your work or are you a hack? In the book, The War Of Art, Stephen Pressfield, defines a hack in the following manner “The hack condescends to his audience. He thinks he’s superior to them. The truth is, he’s scared to death of them… scared of being authentic in front […]

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It’s what you really work with. Your camera records light. Without light you have nothing to photograph. As a photographer, you use your camera to record light. As a photographer you should begin to see everything as a light source. To be  more specific you should learn to observe light sources that illuminate, or transmit light, and light […]

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It’s part of life. You’ll disappoint yourself, you’ll disappoint others and others will disappoint you. This applies to your photography, too. From where I see things you have three choices. Continue to live with disappointment. We can try to please everyone, including yourself, and attempt to exceed their expectations, but it ain’t gonna’ work. As Viggo […]

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When it comes to digital camera sensors and the lens you put on your camera there are different scenarios that are possible and those different scenarios have different visual outcomes.

As a photographer you can use these outcomes as part of your composition.

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There are always at least two people in a photograph. The first person is the photographer who created the photograph. The second person is the person viewing the photograph. As the photographer creating the photograph, it’s up to you to effectively visually communicate whatever you were experiencing that made you want to make the photograph in the first […]

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Drawing Inspiration – Ted Orland Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me. If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work. “In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your […]

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