Creative Composition by Harold Davis

I've had this book for almost a month now and am blow away with all of the tips that are included.  "Photographic technique can only get you so far.  Technique by itself-without passion or vision-is shallow and meaningless.  Cameras don't take pictures, people do."This is the first paragraph from the first chapter. This book discusses...

Apps for Photography

Recently we went over timeanddate.com and it lunar calendar.  It might be great for the studio, but maybe not so much in the field.  I just finished going through the book Capturing Light and in the beginning of the book the author discussed the app Helios for iphone.  That does me no good since my...

Capturing Light by Michael Freeman

I was able to finish going through this book this morning.  I started reading this not knowing what the book was about, other than capturing light.  I would consider myself a novice when it comes to photography and capturing light.  After all I only have a little over a month of experience behind a camera. ...

Moonrise & Moonset

We haven't really discussed Moonrise and Moonset.  Most dictionaries will tell you these aren't even words, but they are words just as Sunrise and Sunset are.  When shooting night photography, the moon is your only natural light source.  So even though you may not be taking shots of the moon, it is still a good...

When it rains I read…

I find it uneventful, unproductive and boring to sit and wait for the skies to clear.  I went out looking for books.  I'm tired of paying late fees at the library and need new reading material.  I sought google maps looking for used bookstores near me.  I went to five different stores in three towns. ...

My next upgrade…

I have put a lot of thought into this.  I have a list of things that are on my wish list but needed to break that down to needs and wants.  One of the pieces of equipment that has gotten me by so far is a broken cheap tripod that I have had over 25...

Time to hit the books…

As of this morning I still have 10 images under review with Adobe Stock and now have 23 images for sale.  A bunch of my images have been rejected for whatever reason.  With that said I am going to use this blog post to show some of the images I have submitted that have been...

No dice for Full Moon

This is the best I could do shooting through the low clouds we had last night.  The good news is last night is not going to be the last full moon.  I have a lunar calendar now hanging in my studio.  I have also noticed that not too many weather people give nightly forecasts like...