The Pacific Pep Band, part musical group, part cheerleading squad, perform at men’s & women’s basketball games, playing tunes such as “Eye of the Tiger” and “Hey Baby” and doing chants and cheers to rattle opposing teams. For as long as I can remember, there has always been at least one person playing the cowbell. [...]
“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.” – Henry David Thoreau My wife and I were driving home on evening after dropping our son off at a Boy Scout troop meeting. We needed a few grocery items so we stopped at a supermarket on the way home. We’ve passed by it many [...]
Silhouettes can present graphically bold images. The dark outline of a person or thing can virtually jump out of the photo. For the challenge sunsets/sunrises were a common theme. The combination of a sun low on the horizon, dark foreground and brilliant colors in the sky makes evenings and mornings the perfect time for silhouettes. [...]
“Got to learn balance. Balance is key.” Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid One compositional goal that you can strive for in your photographs is that of balance. You may think that achieving balance in your pictures is an easy thing to do. All you have to do is to center your subject in the [...]
The thing about newspaper photography is that it encompasses many different situations. I normally carry two zoom lenses with me in my kit. A 24-70mm wide angle zoom (which is usually on the camera when it’s in my bag) and a 70-200mm telephoto zoom. This range allows me cover most of the conditions that I [...]
I love a good silhouette. They can produce a bold, eye-catching photo that can jump right off the page at the viewer. You’ll lose detail in the body of your subject but the strong outline of an image can not only help define itself but the negative space surrounding it as well. So this month’s [...]
The beginning of a new year is a time for looking forward but often it’s also time to look back at the previous year before moving ahead. At the end of every year for the past several, I have compiled a list of some of my favorite images. 52 of 2013’s images can be seen [...]
The subject of the latest Readers Photo Challenge assignment is Still life. Landscape and nature photographers find beauty in the great outdoors, portraitists are inspired by an interesting face and sports photographers are always looking for that spectacular action moment and intensity for their photos. In shooting a still life one has to take a [...]
In 2009 Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowert put out an internet challenge to photographers everywhere to use their talents to help those in need by taking their portraits and delivering prints to them. He called the event Help-Portrait and it, as they say, went viral. In cities in countries around the world photographers and other volunteers [...]
The next Readers Photo Challenge assignment is “still life.” Merriam-Webster defines a still life as ”a painting, drawing, etc., of a carefully arranged group of objects.” It’s a photo of things without any people or living animals. This could be also said for landscapes but a still life is usually a more intimate scene, dealing [...]
