Forget Zoom Lens For A While – Zoom with Your Feet
You’ve got to use zoom lenses to take great photographs, right? No! If you love zoom lenses, I am not against you in any way, but merely invite you to [read more]
Beginners
Let’s Take the Mystery Out of Photographic Terms (Part One)
Sometimes, when photographers are talking about their cameras and their work, they seem to be speaking another language. The experience of listening to them using photographic terms can be as [read more]
“Seeing” with a Master’s Eye: The Art of Your Photography
Old-world Floral Victoria, British Columbia Flowers are works of art that stand alone as beautiful creations of nature. The study and variety of flowers as art has gone on from [read more]
Photo Tips for Sharpening Your Creative Eye
Observe your subject with wide angle, normal, telephoto and panoramic eyes. For many of us, amateurs and professionals alike, producing creative photographs is a challenging objective. Snapshots just don’t satisfy. [read more]
Know Your Camera: Aperture Control
In a previous article you learned that mastering the basics of your digital camera isn’t really as difficult as it seems – even for those of you who’re confronting [read more]
Short And Long Lenses For Photography And Their Uses
As a young person with a growing interest in photography, you’ll eventually want to buy a second lens for your camera. Perhaps you’ll be thinking about either long lenses or [read more]
Know Your Camera: Depth of Field Experiments
Level: Beginner In photography you learn best by doing. To understand basic as well as advanced concepts, it is important that you experiment for yourself. In working with the camera, [read more]
FIRST CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY: Back to Basics – What is a Good Picture?
© Willis T. Bird. All rights reserved. After all my years of observing photographs, I still ask, “Good, in whose opinion?” No matter what you may hear, the subject matter [read more]
FIRST CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY: Sunrises and Sunsets
© Willis T. Bird. All rights reserved. RULE #1: PROTECT YOUR EYES! RULE #2: REMEMBER RULE #1! Unfortunately, no one told me about Rule #1 when I began my photography, [read more]
Squeezing the Value Out of Photo Workshops
Ready to ‘Catch the Light’ in Death Valley, California During my years of providing photo workshops there was one comment from a student that really gave me pause to ponder: [read more]
A Guide to Proactive Photo Practice Sessions
In my last featured article, I used theme photography to illustrate how to set up practice sessions that will push your learning curve. This time we are going continue with [read more]
Photographing People: A beginners guide to portraiture
Why photograph people? Human subjects offer an unending variety of expressions, moods, poses and of course facial and body shapes. They are both challenging and satisfying in a way no [read more]
ART OR ABSTRACT PHOTOGRAPHY
“Abstraction is inherent in the photographic medium and through abstraction the photographer exercises choices that carry photography beyond record-realism to the expression of his or her personal viewpoint”…… Barbara Morgan [read more]
Shutter Speed Explained – Know Your Camera
I’m going to delve deeper into shutter speed, as well as when and how to let your camera do the work for you. After all, if you’re using a new [read more]
FIRST CLASS PHOTOGRAPHY Lesson 29: Go Long-Go Wide with Camera Lenses
Which camera lenses are for me, and what do they actually do? Most lenses can be divided into three categories: standard, wide-angle, and telephoto. In most 35mm cameras, [read more]