IMAGE TALK with Noella Ballenger: What makes that photo work…
When I look at beautiful macro flower photography, one of the key ingredients in making the image work is a sense of intimacy. Bringing the viewer in close can be [read more]
When I look at beautiful macro flower photography, one of the key ingredients in making the image work is a sense of intimacy. Bringing the viewer in close can be [read more]
For photographers in many areas of the world, the cold weather brings special opportunities to set a mood while photographing those clear night skies. When you can reach out and [read more]
One of my mentors has always urged me to look at what I see in a way that no one else has seen. So often we look but don’t really [read more]
Silhouettes can be extremely strong compositional eye catchers. By approaching a subject with a minimalist point of view, background distractions can be eliminated and the photographer is then able to [read more]
Categories: Photo Critiques, Photo Composition, Action Photography, Photography Light, Color Contrast Sometimes photographers just get lucky! They’re traveling in a location where Mother Nature provides them with the perfect photo [read more]
Scenic panoramas can indeed be very compelling and beautiful images, but by getting into the habit of slowing down and taking some extra time to examine a scene more closely, [read more]
Being open to photographing in a variety of conditions and locations can unlock the doors to many photographic opportunities, thus creating pathways to practicing your photo techniques. Practice is critical [read more]
Creating simplicity out of the chaos of your surroundings can be a very difficult task. As photographers, it is important to pay attention to and eliminate any objects or elements [read more]
Years ago one of my teachers challenged me by asking me to photograph a subject by the light of a single small candle. I was to do so without a [read more]
Lights – Camera – Action! This was the cry originated by early film directors as they started to photograph a scene. To interpret those words in the world of still [read more]
What skills does it take to photograph birds? Is it just a matter of “getting lucky” or is their more to it? Some is luck of course, being in the [read more]
Sometimes the urge to photograph just grabs us. We see something that intrigues us or are in a particular place with other-than-prime light. What I always do when that happens [read more]
This is the second article in our new series called IMAGE TALK. It is our hope that by reviewing and talking about what’s right with an image, we will inspire [read more]
There are many talented photographers who make beautiful images, but now and again, a photograph will come alive. It is especially difficult when dealing with historic locations. Often we get [read more]
Capturing a specific photographic moment can tell a story that speaks volumes – a “decisive moment”, a term first coined by Henri Cartier-Bresson. It was he who first developed the [read more]
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