What I consider to be artistic photography has changed over the years – both my perception of what I enjoy viewing as art photographs and what I am motivated to create myself. There are of course hundreds of other examples I could include, and you may not find any of the image examples in this article to be artistic. Learning …
Photo Fails Crunchy Skies
When elements have large and hard edges that’s a sign you’ve overdone the clarity, sharpness, dehaze, contrast, or some combination of those. The giveaway is when you see angry “crunchy” skies in a photo. That treatment can be okay in some areas of the photo when applied properly – so how do we do that properly?
Photo Fails poor tree masking
For this photo fail I’m pretty new at doing high contrast black and white edits and using heavy gradients. I hate how the front treeline turned out and had to clean it up before I could send it off to print.
Wacom Tablet for Photo Editing
Originally posted January 2016 // Updated December 2020A Wacom to solve my problem? I believe encountering new problems means that you are growing and stretching yourself into new places. By taking on new challenges you are introduced to new problems that you haven’t solved before. Approaching and overcoming those problems means that you grow. So that’s all well and good …
Basic Photo Editing
This is for anyone who is learning to edit their digital photosIf you’re ready to move past filters and presets to take more creative control over editing your images then this is for you. I created this series of videos to demystify the components of an image and give you the ability to jump into any photo editing software and …
Photo Versions for Designers
How I think about creating different photo versions for designers when I’m editing an image for different uses from editorial to creative designers.
What Should Be in Your Online Photography Portfolio
I do this at least once a year to highlight my new favorite images and to represent my most important personal projects. I should start out by saying that this is as much about what should not be in your portfolio as what should be. The statement that “only your best images should be in your portfolio” really is a …
Imagebrief for Freelance Photographers – How and Why I Use It
ImageBrief is a tool that can provide value to freelance photographers if you know what to expect from it and how to use it. There have been many variations on this over the years and ImageBrief is only the newest flavor. The core concept of the platform is very simple. A company, ad agency, or creative director posts a brief …
How NOT To Organize Your Photos
I have learned how NOT to organize my photos after adopting systems from other photographers to organize my photo library. In this video I show what that has taught me, and the new method I am using now after my own trial and error. Will my current method change again? Probably. What I think is important is that you should determine …
Ditching Digimarc, digital watermark for your photos?
View PostNever Delete a Photo
Never delete a photo? Okay, I don’t mean that literally; just don’t do it before you have a VERY good grasp on what a good photo means to you. I have learned this the hard way after I deleted photos from an event or shoot only to wish later that I hadn’t. When you are starting out taking and managing …
Don’t Buy Your Followers
Followers on social media channels should not be purchased. Okay, there’s my synopsis and you know where I stand so you don’t need to read on unless you want to know why I feel that way. I can’t be the only person who believes and behaves this way right? I know that social media is heavily commercialized now and growing …
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