Backgrounds
By Amy Horn A clean background can make or break an image. While walking near a waterfall outside of Ouray, CO, I spotted a Richardson’s Geranium with buds just beginning to open. So, I set up m...
Adobe PhotoShop – Layer and Layer Mask Basics
By Megan P Galope If you’re new to PhotoShop, layers can be a bit daunting. What exactly are they, anyway? Layers can be used in a multitude of ways, but I will just discuss the basics of how to use...
Embrace the rain!
Bad weather can create great images. By Michael DeYoung When making images I try to make three elements come together. These are: 1) great subject (landscape, animal, human, etc.), 2) great ...
8-Minute-Long Exposure
By Rick Jacobi Why would a person want to shoot an 8-Min-Long Exposure when you can shoot a 20 or 30 second exposure much easier? The answer is the effect of the water and or the sky in the photo. It ...
Adobe Premiere Rush CC – A fast, user-friendly tool for video creation
By Lisa Hanard With Premier Rush you can quickly turn your photos, videos and audio clips into an impressive video in minutes. Then share your video directly from the Premiere Rush app to the most com...
How To Restore Old Photographs Using Adobe Photoshop Part 1 – COLOR AND CONTRAST
by Lisa Hanard Finding a dusty box of old family photos can feel like you just discovered a buried treasure. With anticipation, you carefully open the box lid to peek inside. Upon closer inspection ...
Long Exposures of 8 Minutes
By Rick Jacobi If you have water and or sky with clouds in a photo and want them to look really smooth, then you have to do a long exposure. Eight minutes works really well for this type of photo. I...
Feel the Thunder
By Becky Chapman Summer in Arizona. Hot, painfully so at times. Every year I am amazed how hot it gets here. Yet every year, I am excited for summer. Why on Earth would one be excited about summer, yo...
PHOTOGRAPHING PUPPIES!
By Vickie Uthe Photographing puppies is like photographing kids, don’t waste time and plan on doing it later because they grow up TOO FAST and there IS no later. In 2016 my granddaughter got a Dorky...
MACRO VS. CLOSE-UP PHOTOGRAPHY
By Vicki Uthe Something became clear to me recently. I realized the difference between macro and close-up photography and concluded that I’m really more of a close-up photographer than a macro perso...