My D3100 Book Is Almost Ready To Ship

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It’s hard to believe but my 6th book is printed and on its way to vendors as I type this. The Nikon D3100 came out just a short bit ago and when it did, I knew that I wanted to add it to the Snapshots to Great Shots series. It’s actually a pretty groundbreaking camera [...]

Lead the Way

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I was working on the composition chapter in my next book and I thought I would share a little tip that I find I apply to a lot of my images. See, part of your job as photographer is to direct the attention of the viewer to the subject. There are a lot of ways [...]

Shooting Digital IR

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Last week I received a question from a reader about shooting IR photos with their digital camera.  The question was, do they need to get their camera converted to IR to get good results?  The problem is that there aren’t any definitive answers for this one.  It’s possible to shoot IR with your unaltered digital [...]

Make Failure Your Success

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Whenever I come back from a shoot I usually head straight to my computer and download my images.  Like most of you, I can’t wait to see all of the great shots that I got.  And like many of you, I find that the majority of my shots kind of suck.  They aren’t necessarily bad, [...]

Photoshop is not DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

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So what do I mean by this?  Well let me try and explain.  This weekend I was doing some research at one of my favorite places, my local Borders book store.  As per my norm, I started at the Photoshop section and then on to the Photography section.  I was looking for books that dealt [...]