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Butterfly Workshop
When Selby Gardens asked me to present butterfly photography workshops at the Historic Spanish Point Campus in Osprey, Florida I was somewhat hesitant as I’m not really a “Macro Guy”, and didn’t really know anything about butterflies other than they were kind of “cool”… It turned out to be an A-Z workshop in photography on one single workshop.
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5 Important Things All Cameras Do – Forget the Rest For Now
Let’s face it, all modern cameras take a pretty good picture. You can even include your phone on this list. Have you ever felt frustrated at at all the dials, buttons, settings, menus, sub menus and the 411 page manual explaining it all? Well read on. You only need to...
What is a Good Image
If you don’t like to read, the short answer, at least for me, is any image that produces an emotional response to your audience or supports your overall objective in a positive way. There are all kinds of “good images” including lifestyle, documentary, portraits,...
Recipe of a Compelling Image
30 years of commercial photography experience has taught me that most great images weather fine art or powerful product photos share similar characteristics if they resonate with the viewer. I’ve broken these down into a simple formula I like to call the “recipe of a...
Up Your Landscape Photography
Every serious photographer undoubtedly has some interest in landscape photography, here are some considerations to up your landscape game. To help illustrate some important trending topics and considerations for not only Landscape Photography, but most generes I'd...
Travel Photography Tips
Let’s face it, in the world today there are probably very few popular travel destinations that haven’t been documented to death. That makes for quite a challenge to capture compelling travel photos that will keep a viewer engaged. The world is full of boring images...
Just do it
Want to become a better photographer?Put your camera away. Sometimes the best way to become a photographer is to simply put your camera down and just experience those things that you love so much to shoot. As photographers, we often get too caught up in capturing the...
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Sensor Size Matters
One of the most important decisions you’ll need to make when buying a new camera is whether to buy one with a crop or full frame sensor. Which one you choose is really up to you as there are advantages and disadvantages to each. First I want to say that many...
Looking to Purchase My First Real Camera
I’m looking to purchase my first "real" camera and take a lesson to get me started. Looking for guidance on camera as well ahead of lesson. I have researched a few here: Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV Black Camera Body, Nikon D3500 DSLR Camera Body Only,Canon EOS Rebel...
2022 Selby Gardens Photo Exhibition Winners
Well it should be appropriate that the sequel to my previous post should be the winners from the 2022 “Virtual” Selby Gardens Juried Photographic Exhibition. Kudos to The Observer Group for facilitating the on-line exhibition of about 250 entires. I was happy to see...