Using A Gray Card For Exposure

There are many people out there that believe in the metering systems in today’s cameras so much that they claim there is no need for gray cards or light meters, and this simply is not true.
A reflected light reading will never be as accurate as an incident light reading. There are more than likely quite [...]

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The “Magic Hour” For Outdoor Photography

You will see many amazing shots done outdoors with pleasing shadows, very rich colors and a generally subtle warm tone. There are two times of day that is unarguably the best light for shooting anything, anything at all. The Magic hour (also known as the Golden Hour) is the first hour of the day at [...]

Surviving Concert Photography

When people ask me what the most difficult scenario is to photograph, 360 days a year my answer will be concert photography. (The other 5 days I’m busy shooting aliens at Area 51.) There is no constant here, no venue is the same with lighting (all of it is low light) and no band ever [...]

The Shutter Speed “Rule of Thumb” for Handheld Shots

Another common question that has been asked of me usually relates to blurry images, as a matter of fact it comes most frequently when amateur and hobbyist photographers shoot indoors with a telephoto lens. And here it comes, “My images are much more clear with the kit lens than my expensive telephoto when I am [...]