Inspirational Learning
Bryce Canyon National Park Photo Workshop
By Jeff Insel This was a fun and interesting four day photography workshop. The National Park pamphlet calls Bryce Canyon “Poetry in Stone” – an accurate description as any. The group met at...
Capture Your Moment, Getting the Shot, Long Exposure, night photography, Photography, Technical, Technique
Photographing the Night Sky
By Vern and Barbara West On a recent nighttime shoot of the Comet C2020 F3 / Neowise, we had a crash course on remembering all the ins and outs of photographing the night sky. One of the first steps w...
Photoshop Quick Trick – How to Add Light to Specific Areas of Your Image
By Rick Jacobi I have tried to put a light on a light bulb, lantern or a lamp. It does not work very well trying to paint it on with a brush in ACR or Lightroom by increasing the Exposure, Highlights ...
The Importance of Backing Up Images
By Vicki Uthe In May of 2015, I had the great fortune of being on the Arizona Highways Photo Workshops Oregon Sampler trip. It was an 850-mile drive of a grand circle beginning in Portland, driving ea...
Death Valley Photo Workshop
By Jeff Insel This was a really great Arizona Highways Photo Workshop (now PhotoScapes) in late March 2013. The group met in Las Vegas at a hotel where we loaded up in two Suburbans and drove to Death...
Photographing Spring Wildflowers with AHPS
By Vicki Uthe March 2015 began my second year with Arizona Highways PhotoScapes. I tried to be a landscape/nature photographer. I really did, but I find that my minimalism gets in the way. To be a suc...
Turn Your Photographs Into Greeting Cards
By David Goodell Looking for a project? I decided to print some of my photos as All Occasion Greeting Cards and have had a great deal of fun with it. The cards are 4 X 6, the paper is 6 X 8, and they ...
Water Drop Photography
By Amy Horn Camera Gear & Settings: Macro lens 1/160 sec, f/8, ISO 100 Flash power – 1/32 Shutter release 2 Off camera flash Tripod Supplies: Water container Syringe Backdrop Towel Rain-X (optio...
Photographing a Wildfire Safely
By Sara Goodnick We in the western U.S. expect wildfires here during the summer months. They tend to begin in May or June in the Southwest beginning a long march north to the Northwest. Even Alaska ex...
Using Low Angles in Photography
By Ivan Martinez As a photographer, I am always trying to work my subject. I do this by exploring different angles and creating different perspectives of one subject. In this video, I share with y...