by Reed Hoffmann | Apr 18, 2019 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Exposure, Intermediate, Light, Night Photography
Everyone knows you can’t make pictures without at least some light. And smart photographers know that if you control the light, you can make pictures others can’t. That’s why I’ve always been a big fan of off-camera flash, got into light painting and recently started...
by Reed Hoffmann | Apr 4, 2024 | Advanced, Education, Exposure, Intermediate, Light, Night Photography, Workshops
How many times have you driven by an old, abandoned industrial site and thought, “I bet there are some nice photos to be made there?” Or better yet, how about at night? Unfortunately, it’s hard to find something like that. Unless you visit the old iron mill in...
by Reed Hoffmann | Nov 28, 2023 | Beginner, Infrared, Intermediate, Light, Night Photography, Travel, Workshops
As a newspaper photographer, I always enjoyed getting lost between assignments, turning down a road I’d never been on before to see what was there. Although I left newspapers many years ago, that’s still one of the things I enjoy most about photography – exploring,...
by Reed Hoffmann | Sep 14, 2023 | Beginner, Composition, Exposure, Intermediate, Light, Night Photography, Travel, Workshops
That’s the question I hear the most when people find out I’m leading a photography trip there in late summer. After all, Arizona is HOT, right? So Sedona in August must be broiling, right? Well, the answer to that is the answer that works for most photo questions, “it...
by Reed Hoffmann | Jun 27, 2023 | Beginner, Intermediate, Light, Night Photography, Travel, Workshops
I led two photo trips in May, the first to the California coast and the second to an area unknown to most people – the Palouse. If you’re not a photographer, you’re probably saying, “the Palouse?” Straddling southeast Washington and northwest Idaho, this beautiful,...