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Behind every seamless documentary transition and every establishing shot that opens a news package, there is a crew standing on a balcony in the sun waiting for something to happen. This frame catches two of them working a high vantage point above a dense, …
Two figures share a photograph and refuse to share anything else. He stands on the left in a black suit, glasses, mid-sentence, addressing …
Count the cameras in this frame. Roughly a dozen visible, probably twenty in the group, DSLRs on neck straps and wrist straps and one small …
This beach frame is a good argument for the 135mm focal length. The woman sitting on the sand holds the eye because she’s the only thing …
Stand behind a line of photographers pointed at something offshore and you can price the whole row without asking a single question. Two or …
A ring light is the only modifier that puts the light source exactly where your lens is. Everything else about it follows from that one …
Every high viewpoint makes the same promise and breaks it the same way. You climb, you turn around, and there it is: the whole city, the …
Three people leaning on a railing, all of them facing away, and behind them a wall of orange that used to be flowering shrubs. Nothing back …
The instinct with any big raptor is to get the face. Wait for the head-on stare, fill the frame with the beak, go home. That instinct throws …
A frame like this one looks like a still from a film, and people usually credit the grade for that. The grade is the last five percent. …
