Why I like Goldstream Park
(This is the post I started to write when I noticed I had written 99 posts on this blog) The main part of Goldstream Park (that is, the banks of…
retouching
In one of the LinkedIn groups I follow, Davesh asked for help with this image taken with, I am guessing, a cell phone camera with a dirty lens: with a…
Perfect Images
In the days of film, we photographers never really knew what our pictures looked like until we had the film developed{{1}}. When I was a kid growing up in a…
Printing and DPI vs PPI
I have seen a question asked in a number of forms (and forums). The most common variant seems to be along the lines of, "Why does my super expensive uber-camera…
Sports Photography
Yesterday I ended up taking photos of some motorcycle races. I would not call myself a sports photographer by any means, and my camera is not really up to the…
How to be creative
For a very long time, I have wanted to teach people the creative side of making images. This is a much harder undertaking than teaching the technical side of photography.…
Lessons
I have been watching videos at Kahn Academy (khanacademy.org) and I started to wonder if I could put up something similar, but photography or art related. I have researched video…
Golden Ears Park
I spent last long weekend visiting my parents with my 2 kids. We went for a short hike in nearby Golden Ears Park where I shot this image (among others).…
Inside the Ordinary – Lesson 3
Tone and Colour In a previous lesson I looked at the arrangement of elements and composition of images. We touched on colours and tones. But now, let's look at colour…
Spring has (finally) sprung
A group of photographers went out to Government House today to take some spring flower pictures. The day was close to perfect. The light was very directional, but not too…