If you’ve spent any time with a DSLR at all, you’ve heard the term RAW thrown around. But what does it actually mean? RAW is not a file format per se…it’s a way of capturing […]
Category: The Technicalities
Portfolio review service
Once a month, we open up the studio for portfolio reviews. Does that sound pretentious? I hope not, because portfolio reviews are an essential part of growing and keeping relevant as a photographer. They’re kind […]
What’s your resolution?
Get it? New years…print versus online resolution…you know…it’s… Fine, maybe it’s not that funny, but being confused about resolution isn’t funny either. Unless you’re good at math (and can accept formulas without having to know […]

Why Doesn’t My Picture Look Like That?
I want you to know something. To really listen here and to absorb what I’m telling you. Most of the time, the reason your picture doesn’t look “like that” is because the “that” is a […]
What’s Bugging Me About This Picture?
Do you ever look at a photo and think, “something is bugging me about this picture”? It almost always happens when the photographer has broken a compositional rule without doing it on purpose. I was […]

Do You Flickr?
It was a different time when I first signed up on Flickr. The world of digital photography was fairly new to me…I was still working with slide film at the time. Facebook was in its […]

Someone Stole My Picture!
Imagine. You’re surfing along all nice and happy and all of a sudden you see a photo that looks really, really familiar. You click on it and think, “Huh! I took a picture just like […]