My Little Adventure with Ground-Level Street Snaps So, I’ve been doing this street photography thing for a while now. You know, walking around, trying to catch those little moments. But lately, all my shots started to feel a bit… samey....
Man, I was fiddling around the other day, right? And this idea for black and white backlight photography just popped into my head. Sounded pretty cool, but let me tell you, getting there was a bit of a journey. I’ve...
Alright, so I’d been seeing all these fancy photos with cool shadow patterns, and folks were calling it “gobo photography.” Sounded complicated, like you needed a Hollywood budget or something. But I figured, hey, shadows are just light being...
So, I’ve been tinkering with my Lightroom setup for a while now. I always felt a bit cramped, you know? Editing photos on one screen, constantly zooming in and out, sliders taking up precious real estate. It just wasn’t...
Okay, so I’ve been wanting to nail that portrait indoor infinite white look for a while. You know, where the background just disappears into pure, clean white, and the person just pops. Sounds simple, right? Well, let me tell...
My Adventure with a Finicky Light Meter So, I was out shooting the other day, you know, with my trusty old film SLR. Love these things, built like tanks. But man, my pictures were coming back looking all sorts of...
Alright, let’s talk about this thing I call “element space” in photography. It’s not some super technical term I read in a manual, nope. It’s more about what I figured out just by messing around with my camera and...
Alright, so this whole ‘sunset for michigan’ idea, it wasn’t like some big, planned out thing from the get-go. Nah, not at all. It actually kinda bubbled up when I was stuck staring at my own wallpaper for way...
Alright, so diving into soccer photography. It wasn’t something I just woke up and mastered, let me tell you. It started pretty simply, actually. I was at my nephew’s game, just with my phone, and I thought, “Hey, I...
Okay, so I wanted to tell you about this little photo adventure I had the other day. It had just rained, one of those proper soakings, you know? And the streets were still gleaming. Perfect time, I thought, to...