I had this crazy idea (yeah, I get those a lot) to create a photo dealing with personal data breaches. I had seen a number of photos with dispersion or explosion effects and wanted to incorporate that in my photo. This photo involved a variety of different aspects including: layers and layer masking, greenscreen, Photoshop…
As Christmas is soon upon us I thought I’d give you a present of this bit of doggerel in a feeble attempt to wish you Merry Christmas! Yes, I know, I’ve been hunkered down way to long, it’s started to affect my brain. So with the profoundest of apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, I give…
Sad to say, but needing to know how to handle a pseudo-insult that photographers get frequently is just part of the job description. In Part 1 we discussed how to handle the “You must have a really good camera.” pseudo-insult. The second most common one is much subtler and really doesn’t sound very offensive until…
Whether you’re an experienced photographer or a “newbie” sooner or later someone will make a comment about your photography that you may think is, well, rather insulting. I’m not talking about criticism which is about what I don’t like and most importantly why I don’t like it. I am talking about an insult; something that…
If you’re like me you’ve spent a lot of time watching Amazon Prime and Netflix while hunkered down during the pandemic. Well I have one more for you to add to your list. It’s the film Campesino and it’s on Amazon Prime. It’s a documentary about Carl Oelerich, a skycap at the Salt Lake City…
This isn’t the picture I intended to get the day I visited Galveston Island. My intent was to photograph Stewart’s Mansion and old abandoned mansion. It is a 8,200 square foot Spanish colonial mansion built in 1926 complete with beautiful woodwork and inlaid tiles from what I could see in photos. Most notable thing the…
This photo always brings fond memories back for me. They are not for the Chicago theater even though it’s a Chicago cultural icon. They aren’t for what it took to get the shot. Rather, it is about the fond memories for Chicago and John Prine. Back in November, 2016 my wife and I were in…
The CBS News program, “Sunday Morning”, had a great story this past Sunday (Nov. 29th). It’s about 20-year-old Canadian photographer Leah Denbok who has been photographing homeless people since she was 15. She’s really quite good. Her portraits are hauntingly beautiful and really give a face to the homeless who we often treat as invisible. …
When I decided to start blogging about photography and my images, I wasn’t sure where to start. And then I remembered the old cliché “Start at the beginning”. So here goes. This photo represents a number of “firsts” for me. It was first photo that I thought had the potential to be something worthwhile when…
