Here’s a collection of interesting photography tutorials and articles from around the Web this past week: Giving a Good Photo Critique Here’s a step-by-step guide from Haje Jan Kamps (also known as Photocritic) on critiquing photos. It’s helpful if you want to learn to critique, of course, but also if you want to look at [...]
To continue my recap of Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s Photo Weekend in Seattle (well, Bellevue), I’ll share some highlights from Sunday’s sessions as well as the anonymous critique. Session I: Composition When shooting a photo, Tim Cooper encouraged attendees to go beyond aesthetics. Why are you taking this picture? What is it that you [...]
Missoula, Montana–based Rocky Mountain School of Photography hosted a Photo Weekend April 21–22 in Bellevue. After two days of focusing intently on photography, I’m feeling inspired and full of new knowledge I can’t wait to put to use. It’s so refreshing being surrounded by photographers and listening to professionals share their wisdom. The conference offered [...]
Here’s a collection of interesting photography tutorials and articles from around the Web this past week: Forget the Factory: How Lensbaby Creates Its Custom Glass Here’s an inside look at Lensbaby, a camera lens manufacturer based in Portland, Oregon. Lensbaby’s lenses can be mounted on most SLRs and paired with special interchangeable optics, such as [...]
It wasn’t too long ago that I was pining for an iPhone just so I could use Instagram, the popular photo-sharing, vintage-filter app. Now Android users get to enjoy in the fun, too. (What a relief, because I could never ditch Android!) I know this is old news by now, overshadowed by Facebook’s purchase of [...]