by activelight | Mar 16, 2017 | Architecture, Flash, How to shoot, Lightroom, Ruins, Shot Design |
You’ve seen those house-for-sale pictures the broker shot with his cell phone – you know, darkly-shadowed house that looks haunted, empty flat interiors, giant rooms that turn out to be phone booth-sized? But add some small flash lighting, and those awful...
by activelight | Mar 9, 2017 | Architecture, Events, Flash, How to shoot, People, Travel |
Usually you have an ‘oh wow’ destination in mind on your travels – a big mountain, amazing cavern, desert ruins, sculpted landscape. But a key part of the story is the incidental stuff along the way – the food, people, and storefronts –...
by activelight | Mar 2, 2017 | Ancestral Puebloan, How to shoot, Photographic physics |
They Got Here First He threw seeds into the shallow pits he had dug. Chanting a prayer for abundant growth and good harvest, he carefully covered them and sprinkled precious water over the top. Then he turned towards the Turtle Mountain and thanked the gods for his...
by activelight | Feb 15, 2017 | How to shoot, Landscape photography, New Mexico, Petroglyphs |
Albuquerque sunrise from Mesa Prieta, Petroglyph National Monument I’m a Night Owl But… Too many years of 3- and 4-set nights playing keyboards in nightclubs turned me into a night person. So I grumbled when the alarm went off at 0-dark-thirty, but...
by activelight | Feb 2, 2017 | How to shoot, Landscape photography, Travel |
My first photos were attempts to document life in black and white, and later in color. I shot without thinking about magic hour light – I was where I was when I was. Why High-in-the-Sky Sun Sucks Your eyes see a much-wider zero to 1 million range of light than...
by activelight | Jan 25, 2017 | Canada, How to shoot, New Mexico, Shot Design, telephoto, Utah, Wildlife |
When I’m wearing multiple cameras and lenses in public, folks usually ask what camera is best. But the better question is, how do you get those great pictures, the ones you can’t take your eyes off of? Get the Cool Thing To Your Viewers It starts with...
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