Watch the short video above, or keep reading if you prefer the written word. I think a lot photographers put all their creative eggs in […]
3 Ways To Give Your Images Their Best Chance
Watch the 7-minute video above, or keep reading if you prefer the written word. In my last video I resumed a conversation I’ve been dying […]
What Gets Overlooked (Don’t Let it be This)
Your biggest challenges, the ones that stand in the way of your best photographs, are not technical; they are creative. I’d put money on that […]
A Better Edit Makes Better Photographs
Take a few minutes to watch the video above or, if you’re more of a written word person, keep reading. When I came home from […]
Shoot Like Yourself
“Sometimes,” observed the great jazz musician Miles Davis, “you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” Sometimes? I think […]
Going Beyond The Single Image
The enigmatic Cat in the Hat once told us that “there is no one alive who is you-er than you.” The less fictional Miles Davis reminds […]
3 Ways To Use Colour to Develop Your Voice
When I was a kid, our family got a roll of film developed every couple of months, and I remember getting the envelope of 4×6 prints […]
Shoot What It Feels Like?
I was young when I first heard some version of this advice: don’t shoot what it looks like; shoot what it feels like. That resonated with […]
Study The Work of Others
In my last article, I suggested studying the work of others as one path toward making your own work stronger. To shoot what things feel like […]
Life is Like a Camera?
“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, […]