Incredibly, the first domes date back to people living in the Mediterranean region 4,000 years BC. Since then, artists have created a fascinating variety of them all over the world. Still today, they are an essential part of modern architecture, as shown for example by Calatrava’s spectacular glass dome of...
Photography Techniques Category Archive - Page 20
Mosaiculture – Capturing Images at Large Public Venues
With the prime holiday season just around the corner for many Photography Life readers, many of you will be facing challenges photographing at large, public venues. I thought it may be interesting to share some images I took at the Mosaiculture exhibit in Montreal last year, and some of the...
Shooting Flowers and Foliage with Telephoto Lenses
My wife is an avid gardener and for more years than I can remember, I have accompanied her on a wide range of garden tours and other such outings. While gardening is of little interest to me per se, I do find some enjoyment in capturing images of flowers and...
Shooting with Natural Light
People often ask me about my post-processing when they look over my photography. To be honest, the post-process I've developed has been a combination of small tutorials I've taken over the years from artists I respect. I've since developed my own style from these tools, but the most important part...
Best Focal Length to Get Into Wildlife Photography
What’s the BEST Lens for Wildlife Photography? If I had a nickel for every time I was asked this question, I could retire. It’s a very common and extremely valid question to ask. And to cut right to the chase, there is no one or right answer to this question....
Raptor Photography Tips
I recently wrote an article on hand-holding large and heavy lenses, which attracted quite a bit of attention and some nice comments and questions from PL readers. I am not really a writer, but a few people asked me about my technique for getting those shots. Let me start by...
Hand-holding Large Lenses vs Using a Gimbal Head
I recently bought the Nikon 800mm f/5.6E VR (see Nasim's review) and took it out for my first field test. It turned out to be extremely poor light and rough snowy weather, but sometimes that's when you get some great photos. I have some samples to show here and even...
How to Photograph Wedding Details
Like any event photographer, most of my wedding shots are of people, i.e. the bride, the groom and their guests. This, after all, is what a wedding is all about and what people mainly want to see when they open a wedding photo album. Weddings, though, are always packed full...
Portrait Photography Tips
As a photojournalist for 25 years and shooting for much longer, I may have a different or expanded definition of what a portrait is, and what it takes to produce them. There are genres of portraiture, of course, such as: editorial, corporate, commercial/retail, documentary or candid, and illustrative portraits. With...
Documentary Photography in Conflict Zones
“Landscape” and “documentary” are two of the most celebrated genres in the photographic arts. These traditions are also the inspiration for the photographic images in my primary area of work as a historical geographer focusing on what is arguably the world’s most intractable geo-political dispute - the Israeli / Palestinian...