Every camera setting is subjective, including white balance. Some of the top wedding photographers use auto white balance. Some do custom...

Taking great images, being a photographer, becomes easier with practice, like doing visual pushups. The more practiced you are, the more...

I've seen fantastic places, but no other experience has been like photographing Hawaii, a world of vibrant color, people and landscapes....

How to change layer thumbnail size in Adobe Photoshop CS6. I provide Photoshop and Lightroom demonstrations for photographers and...

The Internet offers a lot of misinformation when it comes to buying and selling Adobe software used. Articles tell you it's neither legal...

Thinking of saving money by not hiring a professional wedding photographer? Let me show you why that doesn't work. It starts with the...

Recently I went out and finally got some local textures I wanted for use as possible digital backgrounds. I live in Horicon and there are...

In this snowy woods is a nice example of how color and texture can be found in a fairly monochromatic scene. This is a snow-covered...

When I met George Lepp, Canon Explorer of Light, many years ago at a seminar, one of the questions I had then as an amateur was how to...

Photographing bright white snowy landscapes is one of the trickiest tasks in  photography, if you're a beginner using reflective...

"What lens should I buy?" is one of the most common gear questions with beginner and advanced amateur photographers alike, and most...

Non-Destructive Erasing in Photoshop CS6 Non-destructive erasing in Photoshop CS6 enables greater flexibility than the regular erase...

Using color gels on a flash can add interest and impact to any scene, like what I did in a recent snow storm. It's easy to play with...

Flash exposure -- just those two words are enough to boggle even advanced amateurs. But when you understand how flash works, it opens up...

Out in a recent snow storm I found the woods near the Horicon Marsh interesting, every branch covered with snow. It was a forest made out...

Finally, the sun broke the overcast conditions we'd been having the past week here in Horicon, and I took the opportunity to go exploring...

Texture study of weathered wood on Discher Park Pavilion, Horicon, Wisconsin.

Westcott Medium Apollo 28" Soft Box with Recessed Front Westcott Apollo 28" Light Modifier with Recessed Front Excellent Quality and...

Golden light spills onto grass and clouds as waves roll toward shore on Lake Michigan in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The secret to this...

A recent trip after a snow storm to what Horiconians call DNR Hill was a perfect way to practice some metering and snow exposures in what...