Tweet Instagram is a weird little iPhone app. On one hand, it makes it very easy to take and share very cool looking images with your iphone, as long as you’re sharing them with other Instagram users. On the other hand, it’s kinda difficult to show those images to others in a simple web interface —…
Category Archives: How To
How To: Compose a photograph
Tweet The folks at MacWorld put together this great gallery / instructional image set as part of their Photo Basics series. I find image composition is best started in the viewfinder, then finessed in post production editing on my iPad using any of the plethora of apps that support cropping. A very good read with…
Learn how to make the light work for you
Tweet One thing about being into photography; you quickly realize that there’s a lot to learn from other photographers. A subject that’s always challenged me has been the concept of making light work for me rather than forcing me to adapt to the demands of the light sources. Learning from other photographers through their lighting…
Digital Images — Digital Darkroom — Part two
Tweet Earlier this week I started this series by looking at my digital photography workflow as applied to image acquisition (taking the picture). Today I’m going to look at what I do with the image in my mobile photo studio, my iPad Darkroom, if you will. I’ve got the image, now what? Taking the photo is…
Digital Images — Digital Darkroom — Part One
Tweet Something about working on the iPad to edit and share my images reminds me of the fun I had with the wet-film-paper workflow that used to be the norm in film-based darkrooms. For me, the act of capturing the image with a camera is only one part, the first part, of the creative process.…
