Film Photography Is Alive And Well
With our pixel-possessed diet for digital imaging, we tend to forget about film photography. We think that film is dead and read articles about its death. Do not believe it! [read more]
June 2016
The Levels Adjustment Layer in Photoshop
NOTE: This article is for older versions of Photoshop (prior to CS6/CC), but the fundamentals still apply. For CS6 and CC visit here:Photoshop CS6 / CC: The Levels Adjustment Layer [read more]
Lookin’ Back: 10 Photojournalist Tips to Getting Published Online
Kijimuna: a mythological character popular in Okinawan folklore. Normally the little trouble-maker is found where there are trees nearby. This one is hanging on a branch on the front of [read more]
Portraits: 7 Tips on Approaching Strangers for Photographs
It can be difficult to get up the courage to approach someone for his or her photograph– especially a stranger. Over the years I have developed a few tricks for [read more]
Flash Photography – Controlling the Background Exposure
Flash photography is one of the most misunderstood areas of the art. To many people, the flash is a mystical device that, while easy to use (it attaches it to [read more]
Wildflowers Photography – Photo Fundamentals and Lenses
Wildflowers photography and flowers in general are one of the most photographed subjects in nature. With so many images of flowers out there, from extreme close-ups to fields of flowers, [read more]
Digital Infrared Photography Made Easy
Overview Thanks to the digital camera’s CCD chip, infrared photography has never been easier. Traditionally, working with infrared film has been difficult, at best. Infrared film requires loading the camera [read more]
Creating an Infrared Effect from Color Images Using Photoshop
Figure 1 Figure 2 Gaussian Blur Window. Apply a hefty amount of blur to a copy of the background layer. A previous article about creating infrared images with your digital [read more]
The Ethics of People Pictures in Travel Photography
© Karen Schulman. All rights reserved. Ecuador A crowd had begun to gather. I thought my Spanish was passable but I was only able to understand a few words of [read more]
A Photo Book Project
Riley’s Lock House and Seneca Aqueduct, Maryland I had been a professional project manager most of my adult life, but it had never occurred to me to do a personal [read more]
Camera Metering – How Your Camera Sees the World
In Photography, how the camera sees the scene is much more important than how you see the scene…and this is where camera metering comes into play. It’s the camera that [read more]
Left Brain-Right Brain Photography
Much research has been done since the time of this article and the study of the brain has indeed come a long way. But even with the new findings, the exercises [read more]
Photographing Interiors – Tips For Success
The telephone rings; it’s Gourmet Today Magazine. They want me to spend time in Touristown, USA, photographing selected upscale eateries for them. They’ve booked me into one of the classier [read more]
Journey To The Bottom Of The Grand Canyon
It was Thursday morning, and the day began in a beautiful suite at the luxurious Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The sun had not yet risen, but anticipation of [read more]
Is Digital Imaging Different from Photography?
Editors Comment: I find this article from May 2000 fascinating, so I chose to leave it in the Let’s Get Digital Archives. Technology has come a long way since this [read more]