Tutorials — technical documentation

It’s all too often people ask me to put my camera down and join the party. I get that stink eye on many occasions when I plop myself in the corner of a campsite, drag my cooler within reaching distance, and point my camera towards the night sky. Friends wouldn’t at first, but then start to realize that they were...
This past weekend we announced the winner of the Dave Black Lightpainting Instagram contest, which was Phill Monson, a very talented outdoor landscape photographer.  Phill's work spans desolate land and seascapes to foreign cityscapes from across the globe.  One of Phill's many adventures took him to the beautifully romantic city of London, England where he sought out to create a...
Getting perfect focus and depth of field is something that has long frustrated landscape photographers. Back in the old days of film you had to rely on an in-depth understanding of the theory of focal lengths, apertures, and hyper-focal distances. Then, after you'd dialed in your compositions and settings you'd squint through the viewfinder, hold down the depth of field...