When Your Only Tool Is A Hammer, Everything Looks Like A Nail
By Gordie Elwell Are you stuck in a rut?Many of us have developed a certain "style" of shooting, even within our own favorite genre of photography. Landscape, portraits, cityscapes. We develop our own style, often with "tried and true" camera settings that have always worked in the past . . . so why change? Soon, all of our images begin to coalesce into the "same old-same old" folder in our hard drive. We begin to lose …
Creative Vision – Developing your Process
By Chuck Palmer In his book, Within the Frame, David duChemin suggests “the first thing to realize is that the creative process is not so simple that it can be reduced to a formula – go here, wait for muse, shoot brilliant image. It is not a reactive process depending on a magic fairy appearing and beating you with an inspiration stick. Creativity is something you can actively work at, and the more closely you …