It’s that time of year here in the States where we set things on fire so we can watch explosions and burning metal while losing our hearing.  Yes, it’s time for some fireworks.  Fireworks is a great time to practice your manual shooting skills.  There is no single perfect formula for getting the photo, but [...]

No Rush Hour 066 Photography Tip of the Week (audio) One of the golden rules of outdoor photography is related to what photographers call the golden light.  There is an hour around sunrise and sunset when the sun produces “golden” light. This gives you a rather unique quality to the light that cannot be reproduced [...]

This image is all “in-camera” with no photoshop effects.  I really liked the whole Grimm’s Tales motif.  It was taken about 20 minutes after the sunset and I had a singe flash remotely triggered on the ground about 10 feet from the model.  Having the flash this far away helped to create the mood without [...]

Photography Tip Rewind – Get in Closer 065 Photography Tip of the Week (audio) Every now and then I feel it’s important to rewind the clock to reiterate, re-stress and remind you of some of the more important tips.  These tips are often so important you will hear instructors say them over and over.  The [...]

It could be my age, it could be that I have a different ascetic sense, but I don’t “get” grunge.  I’ve seen so many tutorials all over on how to get a grunge look and how to use lots of plugins and filters.  The steps are sometimes very complicated and time consuming. I don’t want [...]