Babe’s & Ricky’s Inn Home of the Blues I first walked into Babe’s & Ricky’s Inn at midnight on a Saturday in March 1989. It was then located on 53rd and South Central Avenue in Los Angeles; the area known by those who lived there as the Black Ghetto. The club was packed. Everyone was […]
7 top bird photography tips Owen Deutsch 7 TOP BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS © Owen Deutsch Learn my best tips for getting the best bird shots – even as a beginner in your backyard From Award-Winning Nature Photographer Owen Deutsch Though I had been a fashion photographer for quite some time, photographing birds just wasn’t quite […]
Selling Your Photography part 2 I have sold stock photography since the 1980s when the medium of choice was Kodachrome color transparency film. More recently, I have posted a number of my digital images on Adobe Stock. It was my intention to write a blog about my experiences with stock and the fortune, or lack […]
The Creative Edge The Art of Isolation Refining your vision by changing your point of view and isolating your subject. In photography, it is just as important what you leave out of your image as what you leave in. Photography instruction by award winning photographer, Steve Anchell. [ez-toc]
by Steve Anchell If you upload your images directly to Instagram or Facebook from your capture device, and then move on to capturing the next great image, then you don’t need to calibrate your monitor. But if you take your photography seriously and want to get the most out of each image, then you do. […]
by Steve Anchell Filling deep shadows with artificial light has been a part of photo technique since the invention of flash powder in the 1880s. Its handheld flash with ambient sunlight is a terrific way to soften shadows and create professional looking images.Fill flash, two names by which it is often called, is used by […]
by Steve Anchell It’s half past midnight on All Hallow’s Eve and it’s time for some killer night photography. I’m surrounded by spooks, goblins, and witches. The Grim Reaper hurries past with his girlfriend, Jack the Ripper is hot on his heels. But wait, there’s Elvis! I thought he was dead! The Joker is wild, […]
by Steve Anchell What is Digital Noise Reduction? Digital Noise Reduction is a broad term to describe undesirable visual artifacts in an image, often accompanied by an overall degradation of sharpness. Noise is not unique to digital photography but a side effect that occurs with all electronic devices: the background hiss of a radio or […]