Create It!
Get your creative project rolling.  Tips for getting started with great photography and techniques to improve. Turning your inspiration into tangible results is the first step in any creative project.

  • Understanding Digital Exposure
    This article covers one of the most basic, yet most important, concepts in photography...exposure. How to expose your pictures, handle different lighting situations, and use exposure to create artistic effects.

Using Exposure and Contrast to Artistic Effect
A follow-up to "Understanding Digital Exposure", this article examines techniques aimed at utilizing our exposure settings to embrace scenes that are otherwise difficult to exposure properly. We'll cover High Key Photography, Low Key Photography, and Silhouetting.

Using Shutter Speed to Artistic Effect
A follow-up to "Understanding Digital Exposure", this article examines techniques aimed at utilizing our shutter speed settings to capture, or create, a sense of motion in our photographs. We'll discuss Fireworks, Traffic Trails, Panning, Zoom Bursting, and more in this article.

When Exposure Gets Tricky: Difficult Light Situations in Photography
A follow-up to "Understanding Digital Exposure", this article examines some common circumstances in photography that create difficulties for properly exposing scenes. We'll discuss techniques for handling high contrast scenes such as Sunsets, Night Time shots, Night Time Portraits, and Over-exposed Background Portraits.

Understanding Digital White Balance In Photography
This article examines one of the fundamental concepts in digital photography: White Balancing. We'll discuss the purpose, history, and application of White Balancing for our digital photography. We'll gain an understanding of Color Temperature; how it is measured and how it is relevant to the color of our images. We'll discuss methods for setting technically accurate white balance to achieve realist color and means by which we can use white balancing to impact our images artistically.
 

Studio Photograpy: The How's, What's, and Why's
Many circumstances leave the photographer at the mercy of nature, constantly adjusting and compensating for changing conditions. Studio photography affords the photographer the opportunity to take things into their own hands!  This article examines some basic principals, equipment, techniques, and lighting setups.

 

Cultivate It!
Now you've planted the seeds of your creativity, its time to cultivate the results. Learn techniques, processes, and software that can help you refine your creative capital into refined, intentional projects.

 

 

Disseminate It!
Now you've done it! You've planted the seeds of your inspiration, cultivated your creativity into an intentional, targeted project and now its time to disseminate it to the world! Here you'll find interesting techniques on presenting your project to the world, with a focus on artistically interactive flash/swish design for digital presentation and creative bookbinding and card making for a more tactile presentation.

 

 

 

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