Tips & Tutorials...

Oftentimes I either have an idea in my head that I want to capture, or I see something that I like in a magazine or on the web and want to reproduce it in my own way. When I first started doing this (trying to either execute an idea that I had in my head, or visualize an end result), the first-take results tended to vary wildly; not what I was expecting at all.

Things started to flip around when I began to think about it differently; I needed to think and see things the way a camera thinks and sees things. Once I started doing this, my first-take results started getting closer to the mark. To be able to do that, I had to get better at predicting how the image would be recorded by the camera given a certain set of conditions. Pretty standard stuff for any good photographer, but a revelation for me.

So, being the kind of person who - after learning something new - says "hey, check out what I just learned..." I'm going to share these lessons with you. I've used the techniques I describe multiple times: I know they work and I have the photos to prove it.