Crafting Photographs

  I love a fireworks show. There is nothing like the mixture of its color and sound painted against the night sky, and if you’re lucky, reflected in a lake or river. It’s an incredible sensory experience, and it’s something I want to photograph, even if I have no idea what I’ll do with the [...]

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I’m not surprised by the answers to last week’s poll, How color accurate is your monitor? About 50% of you are using a color accurate monitor; about 20% of you bought what you thought was a “good” monitor but it doesn’t cover 69% or more of AdobeRGB; and the remaining 30% of you are using [...]

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Have you ever looked at a photographic print and had that moment burned into your memory for ever? This has happened to me on many occasions. In 1990, I was in Chevy Chase, Maryland on a trip to Washington DC and wandered into a Nature Company Store. As I browsed, I was stopped in my [...]

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Learning photography is a challenging endeavor because it is so easy to have false perceptions about it. Most people believe that they can just pick up a camera and make a meaningful photograph, and to a degree, this is true. Photography has reached the masses like no other art form because of old promise from [...]

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This blog is written for anyone looking to learn more about making expressive photographs. I chose the name “Crafting Photographs” because there is a big difference between “taking” and “crafting” a photograph. If you want to consistently make photographs that express things you cannot put into words, you need to learn how to craft your [...]

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