I’ve always been a visual person. Whether it’s trying to evoke a memory or understand driving directions, it’s the visuals that get me there. And over time, I’ve stored away so many visual representations of my favorite places that my brain has become some sort of fantastical montage of locations I can’t even pinpoint anymore. […]

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Using a foreground element to create a frame within the photo’s frame is an effective compositional tool. The framing element not only isolates and emphasizes a subject, but also gives the picture a feeling of depth. It can serve to obscure distraction or to create an interesting foreground where none exist. When done correctly the frame […]

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Don’t you just hate it when you look at a photo and wonder what the point of it is? Or maybe as you’re flipping to the next picture and it takes you a second or two to realize what it is that you’re looking at. When you look at a photograph you should know exactly […]

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In my last photography post I talked about choosing your subject, emphasizing it, and simplifying it. Now it’s time to make it more interesting, successful, attractive, and artistic. Rule of Thirds The Rule of Thirds is a simple technique that anyone can use to quickly create a more interesting photo. First step: Divide the picture […]

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Photography use to be expensive. Buying film and getting prints added up. You would take a roll of film and not know if the pictures came out or not. Dark exposures, blurry images, and the occasional finger blocking part of the view. Once the digital revolution made its way into photography it allowed people to […]

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