Tag: photography
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Photo Editing Software
First of all yes you need one. But you don’t necessarily need (well you might want) Lightroom or Photoshop or any of the other top-of-the-line editors. Here’s why: If you’re shooting images of the kids or the dog or the cat you’re going to want to crop out unnecessary stuff out of the background. You…
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Saving Your Images
Photo by Marion West So how do you save your images once you’re back home with your memory cards filled with precious images? First if you’ve been out shooting all day consider whether it might be wiser to do this important job the next day after a good night’s rest. Don’t ask why I know…
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RAW vs JPG
Let’s get the great debate over right away shall we? Is it better to shoot in RAW or JPG format (or both)? Well first of all let’s understand what these formats do. RAW images are like cakes where all you have are the ingredients. Nothing has been mixed and nothing has been baked or frosted.…
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What’s A Camera?
I usually start teaching my photography classes with this question: What’s a camera? My answer is a camera is basically just a light-tight box. That’s it. Early cameras were just wooden boxes with a back mechanism that would hold a piece of film (often 4X5 inch or 8X10″) and at the other end a very…
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Film or Digital
Why has there been so much interest in black and white film photography when digital is so much easier to use and so much improved when it comes to quality of the images? The simple answer is dynamic range. So what’s dynamic range and why is it important? The simple answer actually lies in our…
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Welcome to StreetShooters
We are new street photographers but neither of us are new to photography. That’s especially true for myself (Peter) as I have been a photographer from the day my parents bought me my first camera a Kodak Brownie at least 60 years ago. Then somewhere in the late 60s early 70s I started shooting professionally…
