One of the most important accessories you can have for your camera, whether you’re professional or just a hobbyist, is a tripod. The tripod allows you to get sharper images by eliminating the shake caused by handholding the camera in low-light situations. A tripod can also allow you to use…
Creativity is vibrant, vital, and ever changing. It’s contagious and unquantifiable. You can’t even really define it. Wikipedia says, “Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity.” Like water, creativity is something that fuels our growth. It’s something that we always need. The…
I’m 36 years old and live in West Cork, Ireland. I love taking pictures and I try to capture emotional authenticity in all of my images. I shoot both, film and digital. I work very intuitively and with very little gear involved. Mostly one camera, a 50mm lens and natural…
What is Photoshop Actions? Photoshop Actions are the recordings of commands that can be applied to an image or multiple images. With Photoshop Actions, you can save time and make you more productive during Post-Processing. Photoshop actions allow you to record a sequence of commands and operations that you can…
If you’ve ever stood in the TV department of an appliance store, you’ve seen firsthand how different an image can look on different screens. And, as you may have already discovered, prints can often look very different from the image on your computer monitor. Monitor profiling and calibration is the…
What Is a Digital SLR Camera? If you’ve been wondering “what is a digital SLR?” I’m not all that surprised. Many consumers are much more familiar with compact digital cameras, since these models have flooded the marketplace. Like cell phones, it’s hard to walk down the street these days without…
It used to be true that a client would choose a photographer for an assignment based on the strength of their portfolio. The portfolio would command strong physical presence in the hands of the client, and allow the client to look in detail at the quality of the photographer’s work.…