PHOTO ARTICLE: Capturing People: Controlling the Light for Better Portraits
Learn how good lighting can affect your portrait images!

PHOTO ARTICLE: Faster vs. Slower lenses
Weighing the differences between lens choice

PHOTO ARTICLE: Photographing in Diffused light
A Quick Tip to Improve your Lighting Skills

PHOTO ARTICLE: Traveling and protecting your photo gear
Tips and ideas for protecting your camera equipment when you travel close to home or around the world

PHOTO ARTICLE: The History of Photography
I have always felt if you want to accomplish true greatness in any field or endeavor you cannot do so without understanding and appreciating the history of it. With that said, knowledge of how photography came evolved over its history can add yet another brick toward building a house of photographic experience. Many are not aware the first temporary images were created over a thousand years ago by Ibn al-Haytham, a Muslim Persian scientist born in southern Iraq in 965. Al-Haytham invented the camera obscura, also known as the pinhole camera, where inverted images were cast onto a dark wall through a small opening. Even though the recordings could not be archived until certain chemical processes and technologies were later invented, it was the first known method of photography.

PHOTO POST-CAPTURE TIP: Reducing Digital Noise

PHOTO POST-CAPTURE TIP: Reducing digital noise
Cutting noise from high ISO image captures with simple plug-in software

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Edinburgh, Scotland
Review my Trip Planner on Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Glacier National Park, Montana
Review my Trip Planner on Glacier National Park in northern Montana

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Review my Trip Planner on Jackson Hole and Grand Teton National Park

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Las Vegas, Nevada
Review my Trip Planner on photographing the Las Vegas Strip in the entertainment capital of the world.

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Northern Patagonia, Argentina
Review my Trip Planner on Argentina, San Carlos de Bariloche/ The Mountains, River Valleys, and Plains of Argentina

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Pt. Reyes National Seashore, California, USA
Review my Trip Planner on Point Reyes National Seashore, California

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
Review my Trip Planner on the Jungles of Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

TRAVEL ARTICLE: The Florida Keys, Florida
Review my Trip Planner on the Florida Keys, from Key Largo to Key West, Florida, USA

TRAVEL ARTICLE: The Mexican Riviera, Mexico
Review my Trip Planner on The Mexican Riviera, from Acapulco to Mazatlan to Cabo San Lucas

TRAVEL ARTICLE: US Virgin Islands, Caribbean
Review my Trip Planner on the US Virgin Islands- St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Review my Trip Planner on Vancouver, located in Canada's western province of British Columbia

TRAVEL ARTICLE: Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Review my Trip Planner on winter in Whistler & Whistler Village, British Columbia, Canada

TRAVEL ARTICLES: All of my Trip Planners at BetterPhoto.com
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