Adding textures in Photoshop
I’ve seen some nice examples of this technique, now, and I’ve been meaning to try this for a while. You can see what I’m talking about here — there’s a texture added to...
Read More →0 Comment
The Basics of Exposure
Photographs are created when a medium of some sort is exposed to light for some period of time; hence, exposure. For digital photographers, the medium we’re exposing is the sensor of our camera....
Read More →
Tripod shopping 101
For some people, money is no object when buying photography equipment. If you’re one of those people, you can stop reading now — this column isn’t for you. If you’re still here, you’ve...
Read More →
Shoot a Silhouette
Silhouette photos can be a great way to handle tough lighting situations. Whenever you’re shooting into a light source, it’s tough to expose a subject properly without blowing out the background. You can...
Read More →
Double Wasp
From its huge prop to its signature gullwing stance, the story of the F4U Corsair is the story of a plane designed around an engine. When originally designed in 1938, the Vought engineers were...
Read More →
Catch some Lightning
I was lucky enough to catch some great summer storms rolling through central Ohio last week, and I snagged a couple fairly decent lightning photos. Although it’s not as difficult as you might imagine to...
Read More →
Cleared to taxi
No matter how many times I hear a WW-II warbird start and throttle up, it never fails to send a shiver up my spine, and P-51′s are right up at the top of...
Read More →
The Show Must Go On
If you’ve been watching my gallery and/or Facebook page, you’ll know I’m up to my eyeballs in EAA photos, but I thought this one was interesting because there are a couple of stories...
Read More →
Textures
I came back from a recent trip to Gettysburg, PA with around 1500 photos, most of which were battlefield shots. Although some of these turned out well, most were “shot from the hip”,...
Read More →
Horizon
This shot was mostly about being in the right place at the right time — and having my camera & tripod in the back of my car. Just before sunset, I was on...
Read More →