How to Take Workshop-Quality Pictures
Here are pictures from a workshop, where we had a studio shoot with live models, a walking tour through downtown Charleston, and a special session on portraits.
APRIL 26th, 2007: FEATURED PUBLICATION: Southern Adventure Magazine
======================================== Featured Publication: Southern Adventure Magazine Website: http://www.southernadventuremagazine.com ========================================Turn Your Outdoor Pursuits into a By-Line in this Start-Up By Roberta Beach Jacobson in Karpathos, Greece Headquartered in Nashville, TN, Southern Adventure Magazine wants to work with both professional and aspiring writers. Editor and publisher Billy Plant III compares his new magazine’s content to that of…
Photo Composition Tip: Framing
It’s true — if you can make your photographs more distinctive, you’ll make them more saleable. There are millions of pictures of the Eiffel Tower for sale, for instance, so if you want yours to stand out among them, you’ll have to find a distinctive way of shooting the Eiffel Tower. Framing is one way…
Digital Photography Tip: How to Make the Most of Motion
I have had the opportunity to shoot a number of sporting events, from professional basketball to skiing, even the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. During these events, I have used a number of techniques to express a sense of motion in photographs. Panning is one of them. Digital Photography Tip: Panning Panning is a photographic…
Misadventures with Chinese Cucumbers
I’m eyeing my dinner, and all appetite has vanished. Faced with a plate of chunky brown objects, yours might vanish too. Stippled with warts, these culinary relations of what could easily be A Thing From Outer Space have a shudderingly slippery texture. In fact, they’re so slithery it’s almost impossible to capture one with chopsticks …
Daft Tourists in Search of Ruins in Tiryns, Greece
The town of Nafplio, in the Peloponnese, Greece, is a place the Gods smile upon. An aura of decaying antiquity haunts the Old Town, a breath of crass modernity pervades the New, and the Gods hang around just to see what the tourists are going to do next …
Water Adventures in Cabo San Lucas, Where the Sea of Cortez Meets the Pacific Ocean
I’m terrible at golf, not much better at tennis and I would rather spend an afternoon at the dentist than shop. If you’re anything like me, you’ll like Cabo San Lucas. At the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean, the sun shines 350 days a year.…
Reaching for the Clouds on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway
You don’t need an ice pick or crampons to ascend Colorado’s most accessible "fourteener." Just outside of Colorado Springs, an hour south of Denver, Pikes Peak towers 14, 110 feet above sea level and lures visitors to its summit year-round on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway …
Spelunking, Light: The Allure of Luray Caverns, Deep Beneath Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
The walkway spiraled deeper into the enormous cavern. We strolled from one softly lit chamber to another, awestruck by the magnificence: Titania’s Veil, a shimmering white formation of pure calcite; Pluto’s Chasm, an underground rift that spans the length of nearly two footballs fields and rises to a height of almost ten stories …
Photo Composition Tip: The Ubiquitous Snapshot
It seems we had a slight technical glitch earlier this month, which prevented all the photo- challenge entries from posting properly on our website. But I checked today, and lots are posted now under this month’s theme, “Hospitality and Welcome.” (My apologies if you panicked when I mentioned last week that few images had been…
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