Lately I've been thinking about where we are on our photographic journeys, and wondering if we ever really come out of beta. They say it takes 10,000 hours to really master something, but does that mean that you have to hide in a closet until you've done your time?...
When you first get started in digital photography, it's much easier to just leave your camera in JPEG shooting mode. Sooner or later though, most people decide that it's time to switch to raw, and once we switch, we usually wish we'd switched much sooner. Today we're...
Andrew S. Gibson just released his latest Craft & Vision ebook, which is a "Big Book" some 240 pages long, all about making The Natural Portrait. At a time when so much of the information has us scrambling for our flashes, this book is a breath of fresh air, as...
I received a question recently from listener Derek Bezuidenhout asking about condensation issues in cold weather. I'm asked this a lot and usually have one main bit of advice and that is to ensure you put your gear back into your camera bag before going indoors....
Following on from our Why Expose to the Right (ETTR) episode a few months ago, I received a question from listener Christopher Pearson, asking how I meter in Manual mode, so today, I'm going to explain my techniques for metering in manual mode. First of all, I want to...
Having been asked many times about the Neutral Density filters that I use for my long exposure images, today I'm going to explain what Neutral Density filters are, which one's I use, and how I use them, along with some ways to easily calculate your new shutter speeds,...
Today I'm going to walk you through my data backup strategies at home and in the field. This is in response to a listener question from someone that heard me talking about this briefly on This Week in Photo. I should precede this with the disclaimer that I'm perhaps a...
Today I'm going to go into detail on why I expose to the right, as I get asked about this a lot. Exposing to the right means adjusting your exposure so that the image data we see in the histogram falls as close to the right shoulder as possible. I've touched on this a...
On May 4, before I left for Namibia, I released a quick video Podcast (episode 371) to walk you through my preparation for the trip. In that video I said that I'd let you know if anything didn't go according to plan, and in general everything went really well, but...
I'm totally thrilled to announce that my latest eBook from Craft & Vision - Sharp Shooter - Proven Techniques for Sharper Photographs - has just been released! Although I've been writing a regular column for the C&V Quarterly Magazine...
While in Okinawa for the first in my series of Pixels 2 Pigment workshops, I had the pleasure to meet Shawn Miller, a participant of the workshop, and incredibly talented Underwater Photographer. A few days after the workshop, Shawn agreed to let me interview him for...
I'm incredibly proud today to tell you that we just released my new ebook with Craft & Vision! Making the Print: Printing Techniques for the Digital Photographer The second eBook in C&V's Masterclass series and my new book is the perfect primer regarding all...