Night Sky
Last weekend was supposed to be the peak of the Persieds Meteor shower. My daughter and I went out to see what wee can see, and found out a few…
Portraiture
I have been asked to help a friend start and run a portrait studio. First and foremost of course is attracting clients, but we also need to figure out the…
To Photoshop or not to Photoshop…
A friend sent me a link to an interesting article, with the message "To Photoshop, or not to Photoshop." and I agree with the author of the original article, the…
Print Vs. Screen
Computers have affected photography in many ways. The most obvious is probably digital cameras. Film has been relegated to a small niche item. We can use programs like Photoshop or…
My New D600’s Images
I went up to Spectacle Lake on Saturday with my new camera. The day started out a bit overcast, but the sun came out later, giving a variety of conditions…
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…
Old Photos
I randomly came across this image I had taken last year. At the time I put it in my rejects pile. One of the problems with the image was lack of sharpness, but the biggest issue was that I could not figure out how to make it work as an image.
As it happened, I came across this image shortly after meeting a graphic designer named Boo. Although she is just getting back into photography, her work has a gritty style I like. It seems to work well for this image. It also hides some of the flaws in the original capture. I have not printed it yet, but I like the story it is trying to tell. A little bit more tweaking and it may end up in my portfolio…
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…