Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Joe Decker in Flash and Lighting Techniques, Photo Composition, The Tuesday 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 [...]
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Joe Decker in Photo Composition, The Tuesday 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. For the past week and a half, I’ve been shooting in New Mexico; and for the last few days I’ve [...]
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by Joe Decker in The Tuesday 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. Even though we’re twenty or so columns into this series, nearly everything I’ve said so far about composition applies equally [...]
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Joe Decker in Random Thoughts, The Tuesday 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. Like mist and fog, water is a subject that deserves it’s own consideration compositionally. With the exception of very still [...]
Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Joe Decker in Nature Photography, Photo Composition, The Tuesday Composition, Tips and Techniques
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 [...]
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Joe Decker in Canon Digital SLR Camera Reviews
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 [...]
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Joe Decker in The Tuesday Composition, Tips and Techniques
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 [...]
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Joe Decker in Tips and Techniques
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 [...]
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Joe Decker in Nature Photography, The Tuesday Composition, Tips and Techniques
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 [...]
Posted on 24. Oct, 2009 by Joe Decker in Photo Editing and Digital Workflow
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 [...]