Baseball team photos
It was a beautiful spring afternoon for a baseball game. I was invited to shoot baseball team photos and get some action shots of the Pisgah Youth [...]
First Communion
Congratulations to my young friend, Rebecca, who had her First Communion today. Because I wasn't able to come to the service, we scheduled her portrait session a [...]
The lazy ornithologist’s guide to bird photography
I was never one to go out to hunker down in the brush an hour before dawn in the cold, waiting for a glimpse of a pileated [...]
Lessons from lightsabers: timing the flash and focusing
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a photography blog can never have too many lightsaber pictures or discussions about lighting, right? When using a combination of [...]
Lessons from lightsabers: how slow can you drag the shutter?
I was asked a very good question about how slow one could set the shutter speed and still freeze the motion with flash. As is the case [...]
Lightsabers in the dark
One challenge of having kids with winter birthdays is that we can never go outside during their parties. This year, we were facing the daunting prospect of [...]