Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and final article in a series of photo tips by F.M. Kearney on thinking outside of the box when photographing flowers. See all of F.M.’s articles in this series »
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of photo tips by F.M. Kearney on thinking outside of the box when photographing flowers. See all of F.M.’s articles in this series »
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of photo tips by F.M. Kearney on thinking outside of the box when photographing flowers. See all of F.M.’s articles in this series »
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of photo tips by F.M. Kearney on thinking outside of the box when photographing flowers. See all of F.M.’s articles in this series »
Time lapse video of nature scenes seems to be all the rage these days. Just head over to YouTube or Vimeo and search for “time lapse nature” and you’ll find thousands of clips. Even if you have no interest in shooting video with your DSLR, adding time lapse to your repertoire i...
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of photo tips by F.M. Kearney on thinking outside of the box when photographing flowers. Be sure to also read tip #2 »
In my new eBook Visual Flow: Mastering the Art of Composition, I discuss a number of compositional tools and techniques which have been used by the masters of painting and photography for centuries. Composition—the artistic arrangement and placement of visual elements within the picture fram...
Photography in the tropics can be a very challenging endeavor. Aside from the technical aspects of photography (such as shooting in low light and using fill flash) photographers must also come to terms with the fact that they are now dealing with species and ecosystems that are often unfamiliar....
Photography in Greek means painting with light. Panning is one way photographers can practice painting with light while produce results that resemble real paintings.
The optimal exposure time for panning is (depending on the subject) about 0.8s. If it is too short, the amount of panning is oft...
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Wildlife photography can be very exciting. With your adrenalin running on overdrive, it is easy for photographers to get caught up in the action of the moment and just snap away without giving too much thought to our photography. Despite how spectacular the events you witnessed may have been, th...
Perhaps I’m biased, having “grown up” in a film photography world. Back then, more often then not sharing images meant putting slides into slide pages, with twenty images per page. And I actually spent time thinking about which order the images would be presented in and how the...
One of the most important parts of a successful landscape image is sharpness. This is one of those things that you HAVE to get right in camera—there’s no fixing an image that is lacking sharpness in Photoshop. A lot of factors are at play when it comes to controlling the depth of field i...
Picture a panoramic image in your mind. It’s horizontal, isn’t it? Of course it is, because a horizontal panoramic image is just the most logical result of panoramic photography. But every now and then, you may want to create a vertical panorama, and that can present some challenges....
As a New England photographer, the couple of weeks of autumn’s riotous punctuation to summer is the one annual opportunity that simply can’t be missed. In my region of southern New Hampshire and Vermont, peak color is usually around the Columbus Day holiday. By mid September I find myself ga...
This article was originally published in 2010 on my blog. It’s been revised to bring it up to my current best practices and to be compatible with Lightroom 4.
For most photographers, adding keywords and other meta data to their photos is a necessary evil. Many of us prefer to take photos,...
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