To Rudy Vogel, a digital photo is a palette of colors, shadows, shards of light, and textures for him to manipulate like a painter manipulates oils. He works exclusively in digital art generated through image capture. Which may come as … Continue reading
Rachel does photography and paint. The Jellyfish photos in her Designer Series contributions are multimedia works that combine her fascination with jellyfish and cephalopods with her nighttime photography, and with imagery from the painting techniques she developed with glazes on … Continue reading
Session 4: Compose Yourself So, you’re taking more iPhone photos. You’re looking at them with a critical eye. And you’ve turned off your flash — as a result of which some of your shots might be a little blurrier, but … Continue reading
2 HDR or Not 2 HDR? You’ve seen them: photos with colors so rich they look like they’ve been dipped in butter. Landscape shots that must have been taken on an alien planet, because the colors in them can’t possibly … Continue reading
Session 5: A Sense of Place(ment) To recap our checklist for taking better iPhone photos: Take lots of pictures. Critique your pictures. Turn off your flash. Compose your shots such that one thing matters. Okay, that’s it. You’re done. But, … Continue reading
A Flash of the Obvious Hope you took lots of pictures. Pick the ones you like best, and, about each one, ask yourself one important question: What is it about this picture that you like? Notice that we aren’t asking … Continue reading