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More and more these days, I see landscapes – especially sunsets and sunrises – as a background, not a whole photo. Of course you can be lucky and have a great foreground object to add the extra interest the photo needs. But without it you might have a background desperately in need of a subject. In these situations, I will often look for a way to introduce a human element into the image. People can add interest to a photo […]

It can be hard to handle bright lights in a photo. It’s difficult to correctly expose the rest of the photo without overexposing the lights – which often appear as a huge burned-out blob spoiling the image. But there’s an easy technique that can turn a problem area into the sparkling highlight of your photo. When you close your aperture down to a smaller size, small points of light begin to show this star-like effect. Remember that F-stop numbers are […]

There are few subjects that have such universal interest as the moon. We are all fascinated by it from time to time. As photographers, it is often one of the first subjects we try to tackle as soon as we have a telephoto lens powerful enough to bring it a little closer. But the moon in the night sky can be a difficult subject because it comes with an inherent exposure problem. How do you photograph a white object, lit […]