Appreciating Those Fleeting Moments
Appreciating Those Fleeting Moments By David Cobb “Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don’t know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It’s that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don’t know, we get to...HOW I BECAME A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
By Zack Schnepf When I was starting out in photography, I loved hearing how professional photographers got their start, so I thought I would share my own story. I did not set out to become a professional photographer, I picked it up as a hobby, got some lucky breaks,...
Layer Masks Simplified. By Chip Phillips
It seems that one of the most misunderstood, and most powerful, options in Photoshop is the use of layers, and more specifically, layer masks. In my opinion, this is the single most powerful tool in Photoshop. When I first learned about how to use layers and layer...
Photographing Iceland For Dummies – Kevin McNeal
Last month I returned from a whirlwind tour of Iceland. I was fortunate enough to go when I found out that a good friend of mine, Dene was going and had extra room in their rental car. After making some last minute changes I was off to Iceland and ready to take it all...
Gear Review: F-Stop Guru Camera Pack By Sean Bagshaw
For the past couple of months I have been putting my new F-Stop Gear camera pack, the Guru, to the test and I’d like to share what I think about it with Photo Cascadia readers. To fully disclose, as a member of Photo Cascadia I am part of F-Stop Gear’s...
Let There Be Night
Let There Be Night By David Cobb Night photography is nothing new; the technique has been around for as long as there’s been a camera to produce it. With advancements in digital photography however, night photography has taken on new possibilities for nature...
Lake Abert – Solitude, Quiet and Photography
by Adrian Klein This year I told myself I would try to make it more about seeing less visited locations or places I have not backpacked since getting into photography, with less concern about always chasing locations strictly based on photographic appeal. Not that I...
Searching For What Is Not Literally There by Sean Bagshaw
“When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my mind’s eye something that is not literally there. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.” – Ansel Adams One...
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