Today I'm going to explain what causes diffraction as we stop down the aperture in our lenses past a certain point, and how this may affect our photographs. I've been working on an update to our iOS app Photographer's Friend so that you'll be able to do two new...
Over the years, I developed a number of photography related mantras that seemed like a good idea at the time, but have since changed my thinking as my understanding gets better, the technology improves, and as the times change. Today I'm going to update a few of these...
It gives me great pleasure to tell you that I have now released the update to our iPhone app, Photographer's Friend. We now support iPad in addition to iPhone and iPod touch, as well as landscape and portrait orientations. As I mentioned in an update a few weeks ago,...
Following a recent question, today we're going to explore how we see and how we perceive a scene, in relation to the focal length numbers we are familiar with from our camera lenses. Before we start, I'd like to apologize for skipping last week's episode. I'm still...
Today I really just have an announcement for all of the listeners that use our MBP Companion iPhone App, which is currently showing a message about not being supported by the imminent new release of iOS, which is version 11. You may recall that I mentioned a few weeks...
Today I'm going to share my thoughts on what makes a photograph or a print "fine art". This is something that I've seen various takes on, and frankly, nothing I've read over the years really resonates with me personally, for reasons that I'll explain. The impetus for...
Today we're going to look at a feature that is on most cameras but often overlooked, and that is the Custom Shooting Modes, which enable you to quickly change many of the settings of your camera with the flick of a switch. In last week's episode, I touched on the...
As creative artists and sometimes small business owners, it's vitally important to continue to learn and grow on many levels, but I urge you to not get so caught up in technical details that you become paralyzed in the field through overthinking every...
On July 8 this year, almost three weeks after returning from Namibia, I cleaned my boots. So what? I can almost hear you saying, but to me, this is always a relatively deep, thought provoking, experience, which I'd like to explain today. When I started hiking in the...
This week I'm going to tell you all about Portfolio for iPad, an app that I've just started using to display my portfolios in, and I'm mostly very impressed with. For a number of years, I used an app called Foliobook to share my portfolios on my iPad and I...
Last week a friend and fellow traveler on my workshops Ulana Switucha asked me a question about good techniques for using long telephoto lenses to photograph moving subjects. Although I have talked about much of what I will cover in other posts over the years, today...
This week I've created a video to review and walk you through the NextGEN PRO gallery that I have recently implemented on my web site. As you'll see, it isn't perfect, but it's a very feature rich gallery and lightbox solution. With e-commerce built right in, it will...
