The Tuesday Composition: Lighting and Composition

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. A few years back, Frans Lanting said something in passing that’s really stuck with me, I presume it’s an old [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Working with Silhouettes

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. For the past week and a half, I’ve been shooting in New Mexico; and for the last few days I’ve [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Live and In Color

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Even though we’re twenty or so columns into this series, nearly everything I’ve said so far about composition applies equally [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Composing Images with Water

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Like mist and fog, water is a subject that deserves it’s own consideration compositionally. With the exception of very still [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Communicating Immensity

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. One of the most common challenges in landscape photography communicating the scale of large objects. Photographs seem to resist conveying [...]

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First Light: Canon EOS 7D

I’ve just started experimenting with the new ::amazon(“B002NEGTTW”, “Canon EOS 7D”)::, which is an interesting beast–an APS 1.6x crop camera with 18 megapixels. Many folks, some of whom don’t appear to have used the camera, have criticized this camera as going too far along the megapixel path at the expense of ISO. To me, the [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Framed, Inside and Out

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Many of the topics we’ve discussed so far talk about the relationship between two objects in an image, from their [...]

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Better Habits for Better Photography

Today over on twitter someone reminded me of something Galen Rowell taught me many years ago, and I realized the subject required more than 140 characters to explain. The basic idea sounds simple to start with: Essentially, after you shoot, the idea is to leave the camera back at some “default” set of settings. In [...]

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The Tuesday Composition: Telephoto Compression

If you like this article, you can now get the book! Joe has expanded the “Tuesday Composition” series into an inspiring new ebook on composition, especially for nature photography. Check it out: The Tuesday Composition. Just as I often turn to wide-angle lenses when I want to create images with a sense of depth and [...]

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A First Glance at Lightroom 3.0 (Beta 1) Image Processing

A couple days ago, Adobe released Lightroom 3.0 Beta 1, which introduces a variety of new features, but also introduces a new RAW processing engine. While many of these features are fairly simple to appreciate, the changes to the RAW processing engine are just as exciting, and worth a look as well. I will intentionally [...]

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