Ten Tips for Fireworks Photography
Independence Day is approaching in the United States, and many people will be out celebrating. One very traditional part of July 4th is watching large fireworks displays, and some of you [...]
Create a DIY shaped bokeh filter for photography
Bokeh is defined as "the blurred quality or effect seen in the out-of-focus portion of a photograph taken with a narrow depth of field". With a standard lens, the bokeh is [...]
Tutorial: Water Drop Photography with the Pluto Trigger
Note: This article contains affiliate links. A few years back I purchased the Pluto Trigger, a device that connects to a camera to automatically trigger the camera, depending on what you [...]
Tips on Photographing with an Infrared-Converted Camera
I have been wanting to play with an infrared-converted camera for quite some time. So I contacted the folks at LensRentals.com, one of the sponsors over on Photofocus, and was able to test out an [...]
Processing an Infrared Image using Lightroom and Photoshop
I recently had the opportunity to play with an infrared-converted camera, thanks to the folks over at LensRentals.com, and had a lot of fun photographing my dog at an expansive dog park just outside of Portland, Oregon...
Up And Away
This morning I did something I'd been wanting to do ever since I moved here—I went to the hot-air balloon festival in Provo, Utah. And, thanks to my new 14mm lens I [...]
Ten Tips for Night Photography
Tis the season for beautiful displays of colorful lights. A lot of people enjoy photographing images after the sun has set, and this is a great time of year to get some [...]
