2026-10-15Hello! I haven't made a good landscape photo in a while.My bread and butter of photography seems to be a documenting process, photographing people or things that I see around me. Sometimes, I get to tap into the creative process a little deeper.I've employed three tricks to make this image's effect stand...

2026-10-14Hello!I was considering writing the twist at the end, but I'll be direct: I lost my media card on the way home from New York.This was a photography festival, and the main highlight for me (besides talking with the vendors in the street fair booths) was some free time with modern cameras and lenses. What...

2026-10-13Back doing some interior decoration at home...Hello! I'm glad I didn't go out and buy a salt lamp.For starters, there's many plastic imitations of the salt lamp that don't give the same colored glow that a real salt lamp would. If I'm going to lean into the aesthetic of bright rock, I should do it...

2026-10-12Hello! I hate the color in this image!Why do museums and exhibitions have such awful lighting? To my untrained eye, the color of this beige machine looks ugly. In person, it was fine. In the end, I caved and let a preset do the work of recoloring this image.And the display! Modern displays have advanced so...

2026-10-11Hello! I'm this close to pulling an all-nighter over nothing. No idea why, but there's always something worth doing.Past ten o' clock, I was still walking outside, exploring abandoned paths and overgrown gardens. I found this shed on my travels and decided to photograph it.I haven't yet gone back to this...

2026-10-10Hello!I looked at a pumpkin design online that was way too complicated. It's also a bit too early to cut through pumpkins for Halloween, but I went to try this anyway.I adjusted the focus of my camera lens to make the pricks of light that shine through the dots look out of focus. They look blurry, but also...

2026-10-09Hello!After making the wrong measurements for the rug, I put my focus on smaller items in my room. This was cheap, and so I couldn't pass it up.I still haven't returned the rug, by the way. I keep meaning to, but I've forgotten every time I have the opportunity.I also can't believe how much dust...

2026-10-08Hello!After framing my photos, I decided to spend the weekend designing my room and going through some dusty old kit. Spring cleaning, but in the autumn.I neglected to measure the space I needed, so I bought the wrong size of rug. It also came with an insufficient backing, so it slipped all over the place...

2026-10-07Hello!This might be wonky speak, but I'm challenging myself to find something interesting without giving away the photo spot. If I have to depend on a local landmark to make the photo interesting, I'm not exercising creative muscles and making original work. Find something mundane and ordinary, make it...

2026-10-06Hello!More extreme ISO after yesterday's monochrome image. I think the digital noise is less obvious in this photograph because it's taken outside with oodles of sunlight, rather than the dark innards of an old piano.In this case, the noise is intentional to experiment with the limits of my camera. But I...

2026-10-05Hello!I've messed with two parts of the exposure triangle before: the shutter speed and the aperture. I can make motion go by in a blur and shorelines as clear as glass. I can make the sun peek through in starry spokes, and create that fancy depth look that smartphone cameras are trying to replicate.Now,...

2026-10-04Hello!Huge discovery. I've been going on and on about making sure the edges of the photographic frame don't create any distractions. I knew this was a common technique in photography composition (or composition in general art), but I didn't have the search term or keyword to look into it any deeper.I found...