I particularly like to shoot silhouettes. In truth, I probably shoot them too often, but I can’t get enough of them. They provide a strong, graphic image. Whether in black and white or in color, they tend to be compositionally bold with strong visual impact. Photographing a silhouette isn’t hard, as long as you follow [...]
It’s easy to blame your equipment when it takes an improper exposure. But a camera is an unthinking, unfeeling machine. It doesn’t know if a scene is too dark or too light, nor does it care. It takes in information about what’s coming through the lens and then adjusts the camera’s settings to set algorithms. [...]
Sometimes the correct exposure isn’t the necessarily right one. I had an assignment to shoot a portrait of former NFL football player Eric Williams at the class of 1980 St. Mary’s High School reunion in the banquet room of the Woodbridge Golf and Country Club on a recent evening. When I arrived, Williams wasn’t there [...]
