by Reed Hoffmann | Jul 11, 2013 | Advanced, Beginner, Camera Gear, Composition, Focus, Intermediate, Lenses, Light, People
If you don’t work as a photographer full-time, it can be a challenge finding reasons to shoot pictures. And if you don’t shoot pictures, you’re not going to get better. Finding a personal project is one great way to get you making pictures. I recently helped a friend...
by Reed Hoffmann | Jul 1, 2013 | Beginner, Exposure, Intermediate
Many of you will be out watching fireworks Thursday night, and if you’re into photography like me, you’ll probably have a camera along. There are a few tricks to making good fireworks pictures, and now’s a good time to review them. Great fireworks pictures are like...
by Reed Hoffmann | Jun 20, 2013 | Action, Advanced, Beginner, Camera Gear, Composition, Exposure, Focus, Intermediate, Lenses
I used to think cutting grass was fun. Maybe it was because dad bought a riding mower and that was the closest thing I had to a car then. But for the last thirty years, it’s just been a chore. So when I opened the garage to cut the grass a couple of days ago, I was...
by Reed Hoffmann | Jun 12, 2013 | Action, Camera Gear, Intermediate
Whenever I get a new camera, I try to put it through its paces to see how it performs. Sometimes that means making it do things it wasn’t necessarily designed for. I’ve had my Nikon D7100 for about two months now, and been very pleased. It’s a mid-level camera that’s...
by Reed Hoffmann | May 30, 2013 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Education, Intermediate, Technology
We all know numbers can be misleading. That’s one reason people usually think the more pixels a camera has, the better its pictures. But that’s not necessarily true. Lots of things affect the quality of pictures, including the design of the sensor, the data processing...
by Reed Hoffmann | May 20, 2013 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Intermediate, Technology
In the past, when we talked about instant photos, we were talking about Polaroids. Today we mean pictures shot with a cell phone and shared instantly. But I just got some nifty (and inexpensive) adapters that let me share better pictures than anyone’s going to get...
