CPC Blog :
10 Tips For Landscape Photography
June 25, 2020 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
The key to an engaging landscape image is to photograph visually interesting scenes, convey a sense of depth, have foreground interest and use strong compositional elements. Review these 10 tips for stronger Landscape shots.
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Editing Your People Pics
May 16, 2020 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Whether you are taking casual family & friends’ photos or capturing professional style headshots and portraits, having the skills to edit them will make your images stand “head and shoulders” above the rest, pun intended.
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Tips for Photographing Waterfalls
March 28, 2019 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Spring is typically the best time to photograph waterfalls. The melting snow and the season’s rains increase the flow and volume of the streams and rivers making them more powerful than at any other time of the year.
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Correct Exposures VS Creatively Correct Exposures by Bryan Peterson
September 29, 2017 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Did you know that most picture taking situations have at least six possible combinations of f/sops and shutters speeds that will ALL result in the ‘same’ correct exposure? Furthermore, did you also know that despite having six possible correct exposures only one, maybe two, would be the ‘creatively’ correct exposure?
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The Relationship Between Aperture, Distance And Lenses
May 25, 2016 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Ever set your aperture to f4 or 5.6 and wonder why your background is not blurred and everything in your image seems pretty sharp? How about the opposite: you set your aperture to f16 and find you have blurriness in the background, isn’t f16 supposed to render everything sharp? Understanding the relationship between aperture, distance and lenses can easily explain this.
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The Language of Seeing… by Bryan F. Peterson
July 28, 2015 | Category: Photo Tips & Techniques
Your camera and lens(es) are a foreign country and speak a language all their own. Until you are willing to learn the language your lenses speak, fluently I might add, your attempts at picture making will require constant translation. The road to speaking and seeing fluently is made much shorter when you put the language of your lenses to work, week in and week out. Here's how...
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