Backlighting – My Favorite Light
I love backlighting in landscape photography; it creates an inner glow to mountain flowers, fall leaves, and meadows or rim lighting around wildlife. Backlighting also accentuates morning mist, fog, smoke, and haze, and shooting into that kind of atmosphere will...
The Intersection of Weather and Photography
One of the most common questions I get asked when teaching workshops or discussing photography is, “How do you know when to go out and shoot?” Or, “What do you look for in the weather forecast when planning a shoot?”. You might look our the...
Split Toning With Luminosity Masks
(Note: I published the video that accompanies this article on my YouTube Channel in June, so if you are a subscriber over there you may have already seen it.) Split toning is a process in photography of adding one color to the shadows and a different color to the...
Photography – Learning the Hard Way
Most of what you see and read around photography talks about our successes and showcases only our best work. This isn’t surprising as we prefer to show off the good, not the bad, if are trying to capture another person’s split-second attention before the next shiny...
Recent Comments