HDR = High Dynamic Range with One Image?
Author: David Huffman Yes! You can create a High Dynamic Range image with only a single exposure. First, what is High Dynamic Range? HDR, as it is commonly named, is a method to expand the dynamic...
More Than Megapixels
Author: David Huffman For most of the last 15 years, part of the race for digital imaging among manufacturers, is to emphasize an easy-to-compare metric: Megapixels. The term refers to the millions ...
Practice, Practice, Practice To Make Better Photographs
Author: Vern West It rained last night here in the White Mountains so when we arose this morning there were several new mushrooms that had sprouted overnight. I decided to try some macro or close ups ...
Ask yourself: “Am I in a groove…or a rut!?”
Author: Suzanne Mathia Here are some suggestions (a friendly kick in the rear) to get you out of a photographic rut. Bad habits creep up on us all. Just like exercise you cant do the same thing every ...
Anatomy of an Indoor Portrait Shoot
Author: Ken Brown It’s Summer in Arizona, so although I have done it, it’s a bit too hot outside for a Portrait shoot. I’d like to use this Blog to describe the mechanics of an Indoor Portrait...
Making of an Image - Part 2
Author: Michael Greene Today I am sharing with you the techniques that I used to make this image of McCloud Falls in the Trinity-Shasta National Forest in Northern California. First, it is important t...
Old Way of Focusing
Author: Vern West All images © Vern West Back in the film days at the advent of auto focus lenses there were two options for initiating focus. The first one was initiated by the shutter button. This ...
3 Keys to Dazzling Macro Photography
Author: Dean Hueber 1) Size Matters: Size, in this case, is the size of your images’ depth of field. You want your subject in focus, which is not to say that limited focus can not be a creat...
Getting the Shot: Shutter, Exposure and Post-Processing
Author: Michael Greene This capture is of the McCloud River located in the Trinity-Shasta National Forest and this tutorial is about how I crafted the finished product. After a notoriously dry winte...
Metadata – What is this?
Author: Alan Feldman Many photographers have undoubtedly heard the term Metadata, or perhaps EXIF, and wondered what this is and what it’s for. Well, hopefully, the following will shed some ligh...