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The Best Noise Reduction for Milky Way Photos: Image Stacking
Probably the most common image quality issue in night photography is noise. Shooting dark scenes at short shutter speeds and high ISOs is a proven recipe for grainy images (technically it’s not the...
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What Makes a Good Photograph?
We all want to be good photographers, but have you ever asked yourself, “what makes a good photograph?” I believe that if you want to be good photographer, you should give lots of thought this...
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3 ways to use color contrasts in your photos
Did you know that there are three types of visual contrasts? They are Color Contrasts, Tonal Contrasts, and Textural Contrasts. If you learn to identify and utilize each type of contrast, your photos...
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3 ways to use Tonal Contrast in your photos
In this article we’re talking about Tonal Contrast. Tonal contrast is when you have dark elements contrasting with lighter elements in your images, as you can see with this shot of silhouetted palm...
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2 Powerful Ways to use Textural Contrast in your photos
Let’s move onto the last topic in this series on contrast: Textural Contrast. This is simply when different parts of your photos have different textures which help them stand out from one another....
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Conceptual Contrasts
I’ve recently been writing about the world of visual contrasts, of which there are three types: Color, Tonal, and Textural. Today I want to talk about Conceptual Contrasts, which is a powerful idea...
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Find Uniformity Within the Chaos
Greetings, my excellent friends!In the last four articles I’ve been driving home the importance of using contrasts in your photos. (You can read that full series here). And by now, you may be thinking...
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How to Photograph the Aurora: 5 Things I Learned as a Newbie
Aurora over Mono Lake. 9 image panorama. ISO 2000, f/4, 13 seconds, 20 mm.Photographing the aurora is hardStraight talk: I don’t know how to photograph the aurora. Or at least, I didn’t prior to 2024....
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Why I Started Bracketing Exposures (in 2024)
Up until a few weeks ago, if I ever caught one of my workshop participants bracketing exposures, I’d smack their hand and tut-tut at them. “There’s NO need to bracket, your camera can easily capture...
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2024 Year in Review
One of my favorite things to do at the end of the year is to go back through my image galleries from the previous 12 months to remind myself of all the adventures I’ve had, and relive all the...
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