Getting Great Point and Shoot Pictures… The Set Up

You can make great pictures with almost any camera. There, I said it. Here’s the thing… Every time I say that, I can hear people thinking “Oh yeah? Says you with the fancy pants camera…” or “Sure you can with a NEW camera, but not my old camera…” So last week, I gave myself a [...]

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Point and Shoot Challenge! Come Watch the Setup…

Click The Video To Play The full blog post is coming soon in case you want to read about my setup, or you missed something in the video. I hope that helps, and if you have any questions, just ask. I love talking photography! Want to watch the next video? Learn how to brighten your [...]

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Point and Shoot Challange! Making Point and Shoot Pictures Look More Like a DSLR.

I’ll admit it… I cheat. Not at cards or anything. But I do cheat when it comes to my camera. See, I have a big ole’ Canon 50D DSLR and a fancy pants macro lens that I love more than kittens. So, when I say “you don’t need a great camera to get great shots” [...]

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No Fail Lighting Techniques Easy as 1-2-3!

I struggled with lighting for a long time. To be honest, it’s such a huge part of photography I don’t think I’ll ever have it 100% down. But it has gotten a whole lot easier for me to figure out where light should come from, how to arrange subjects in relation to the light, and [...]

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Must See Maternity Posing Guide

I did a maternity photo shoot in Malibu for a friend yesterday and it was a Blast! We had so much fun, even though it was raining and a little cold at the beach. The whole vibe was very relaxed, and we got to try out a lot of fun poses and props. Three factors [...]

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Book Review: Improve Your Landscape Photography

I’m starting to LOVE landscape photography but I’m getting frustrated that my shots aren’t great yet. They’re OK- I like ‘em enough to share on Flickr or Facebook- but they’re not jaw dropping. You too? I picked up a copy of Jim Harmer’s e-book  Improve Your Landscape Photography to try to speed up my progress. [...]

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The Shaped Bokeh Effect – Experiments in DIY Photography

Ever heard of the Bokeh Master? It’s this contraption that fits over the front of your lens, sort of like an opaque filter with a hole cut out. It magically transforms out-of-focus highlights in your picture from round dots to cool shapes. Normally, out of focus lights look something like this: But with a Bokeh Master [...]

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Get Perfect Exposure and Contrast Every Time (The Secret’s in the Histogram)

You might have seen a histogram on your LDC screen and thought “What’s this thing for? I’m taking a picture, not a math exam.” If you’re like me, you’re afraid of math and anything that looks like a graph or chart gives you nightmares, so you just ignore it. (OK, no one but me is [...]

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15 Can’t Fail Compostition Hacks: A Cheat Sheet for New Photographers

You can make all of the technical stuff perfect, the exposure, white balance, and lighting, and still take really bad pictures. It’s true. If your compositions fall short, you can get everything else right and your pictures will only ever be OK. They’ll never see their full potential. It’s easy to think that getting composition [...]

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Can’t Keep Up? 5 Ways to Stop Taking too Many Pictures

  When I got my DSLR with an 8Gb memory card I took so many pictures. It was like the never ending memory card. I could take 10 pictures one after for no good reason and I had a ball doing it. Then I realized I had to do something with all those pictures. I [...]

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