The Critique – Milan
byI can’t believe it was just a year since my workshop with Ugo Cei in Milan. Milan is such an amazing city for a…
Passion Book Revised & Remastered
VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME: JUST SHOOT IT
byI’ve talked a lot in recent posts about getting through a volume of work and coming out the other side a better and more…
WORK IT: DON’T GIVE UP ON THE MAGIC
byThe sheer act of determining what is placed within the frame and what is left out—the organization of space—is one of the most important tasks when taking pictures. Composition is a bit like a dance.
Your Photographic Style
byWe all borrow from the photographers we admire, but after a volume of work, we leave their path and carve out a new one of our own. When you see a group of photographers all shooting from the same vantage point, shoot quick and then run the other way and find your own camera position.
STYLE & TECHNIQUE
byI liken the process of shooting a volume of images to riding a roller coaster. At first it seems the process is going slow. You are in the open car, slowly making your way to the top of the tracks.
JUST SHOOT IT
byPerhaps the poster boy for shooting volumes is street photographer Garry Winogrand. When he died of cancer at the age of just 56 in…
CLOSING THE GAP
byFrom my own experience as a photography educator and workshop leader, I have seen and heard this same scenario often—photographers describe their excitement for…
HURRY UP & WAIT
bySo what exactly is a volume of work and how do you define it? For a large-format photographer, the idea of volume may be…
No Shortcuts To Mastery
byYousuf Karsh spent a lifetime perfecting his portrait lighting techniques. Here are Yousuf and me, graduation day, Dawson Institute of Photography, Montreal—at the beginning…
Seeing The Future
by“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Photography is a bit like trying to see the future, to trigger the shutter before…
