TeachMeToShoot blog

We photographers quite often get stuck in a rut. We shoot the same subject matter month after month without change. For me it’s nature stuff: flowers, bugs, animals etc. with the occasional landscape thrown in there. That’s part of the reason for this blog and the TeachMeToShoot.com website.
Both places give you information about your [...]

Because you just can’t wait to upload your latest vid clip to YouTube, Casio comes to the rescue. They’ve partnered with Google (who owns YouTube now) and provide a special video mode on some of their new digital cameras.
There is also special video software that connects directly to YouTube, converts the file and uploads it. [...]

As a Lightroom user you want to make the most of this program. It is quite a powerful image importing, cataloging, managing, editing and presentation tool. For those of you who aren’t book learners I’d suggest you visit Lightroom Killer Tips and grab everything they have.
The Lightroom Killer Tips site is run by NAPP (National [...]

The other day I talked about recovering corrupt images from a memory card. In order to do this you’ll need a USB Card Reader or one built in to your computer or printer. Any of these allow you to access the memory card just like it was another drive. They show up in Windows Explorer [...]

I belong to a camera club in the Denver area. Last night our subject matter was Long Exposures (over 1 second). There were, of course, some fireworks photos and night shots and I put in one of my B&W infrared photos. The photos I was intrigued by were the light paintings.
Painting with light is a [...]

Another installment of the Lighting 102 series is posted on the Strobist website. The issue of Specular Highlight Control is covered and includes a number of examples. In simple terms, we’re talking about a reflection of the light source itself.
Most photographers think of specular highlights as small point reflections. As David describes in the article, [...]