Over in the Carlyle neighborhood of Alexandria sits the newish headquarters of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). On Friday night, I headed over there to take some evening shots of this postmodern structure. Tweet
Most people really dislike rainy days. Especially if they’re photographers. One way to get out of that rainy day funk is to play with some tabletop photography. Tabletop photography consists of coming up with something to shoot on a tabletop. Its that basic. For me, one of the things I like to do is play [...]
Whenever I get bored, or I’m feeling uninspired with my photography, I typically try to get myself to practice a technique I don’t use often. One particular lighting technique that I like a lot is the bright field (I’ve blogged about its cousin, dark field lighting, before). This method of lighting comes from the phenomenal [...]
As I’m learning more and more about using light and off camera flash, I occasionally will test out techniques that I find interesting. A technique that I first read about in Light, Science and Magic was dark field lighting. The idea is that when photographing something that is transparent (like glass) you can accent the [...]