When is Enough…Enough??

The question is when do you stop shooting a particular scene? As you know I am not an advocate of over shooting, but you also do the opposite of not doing enough if the you have time to do it.
In this blog, I have taken several photos of the St. Charles Streetcar in New Orleans.  [...]

Don’t let anyone tell you that the sun needs to shine to get the best photographs. You can get exciting photographs are cloudy days, raining days and even after the sun has gone down…or before the sun comes…and at night too. You just need to use your imagination a bit..that is all.
Some of my best [...]

In this modern age of instant gratification whether it be something we buy on impulse with a credit card or a digital photograph we take and see instantly, life passes us by quickly and we tend to forget those things we thought were important a few minutes ago.
While this blog is intended to improve your [...]

Normally this blog is about creative photography but I am going to deviate a bit this time with the oil rig crisis in the gulf. We were down to Venice, LA in early April as I was shooting more photographs for my Mississippi River Gallery.
Right now Venice is the center of the news concerning the [...]

Normally this blog is used to help you improve your photography. This week it is to introduce a new gallery on my website: ” French Quarter Doorways,” in New Orleans.
How many times in our lives have we made a committment to finish one project right now without going off in another direction before it was [...]

When you are shooting an outdoor scene, don’t just stay in one place and take one or two or a hundred pictures of the same thing, walk around a bit…even if other people walk up and take the scene from the same angle that you are taking it from…and then walk away.
Use your imagination and [...]

I always look for photographs that are crisp and in focus. Auto focusing lens help a lot, but how you take the photo also helps too. “Shoot Steady,” someone once told me. Don’t “snap” the shutter, just squeeze it gently and take a deep breath at the same time.. Even with an automatic focusing lens, [...]

Finding spots of lights in what might be a dark photograph helps to highlight the scene. You might find a spot of light coming through a shade tree…..or around the corner of a building which is mostly shaded.  I have found spots of light more by accident that planning them out. But it takes time [...]

Everyone tells you to “fill the frame” with your camera so that you get “the best of everything” in your photograph. But what is “the best of everything?” It could be your subject…it could be color…it could be sky..it could be just about anything. In a previous blog we discussed cropping your photograph to its [...]

A great photograph is in the eyes of the beholder. What one person likes, another person may not. It is simply personal preference. But the question is…do you know why you like a certain photograph, or a painting too for that matter? You should be taking photographs that you enjoy seeing and sharing with others.
Here [...]