“F8 and be there.” It’s the old mantra of news photographers.  It means that getting the photo, even if its out of focus and over exposed is far better than not getting the photo at all.  The history behind this was if you left your camera at F8 (decent depth of field) and with an [...]

This week I had the honor to be the photo judge for a photo blog called I Heart Faces (http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/), a blog dedicated to portraiture.  This week’s theme was “Wonder” and after sifting through nearly 400 photos in both an adult and kid’s category, the top ten in each category was selected and the winners [...]

Part 2 of a 2 part series. In part 1, we learned multiple ways to convert a color digital photo to black and white.  But frequently that result isn’t good enough. Images frequently, such as our sample, have a very flat contrast.  That is, there are not a lot of black blacks and not a [...]

Part 1 of 2 Part Series I’ve been writing these tutorials for a few posts now and a lot of time the inspiration for a post comes from a question that may have been asked in the Raleigh Flickr groups or something I’ve seen while traveling. This tutorial comes to you courtesy of @dclay3521 who [...]

This is a feature on more advanced cameras that people may not be taking as good of an advantage as they should be.  The principle behind bracketing is to expose multiple exposures to make sure you get a good one.  Lets look at a little history and camera behavior to understand why this is a [...]