©Russ Burden From TakeGreatPictures.com By Russ Burden AUTUMN – chills permeate the morning air, days grow shorter, animals become more active, people wear welcomed cool weather smiles, and the landscape is ablaze in leafy fireworks. It’s the time of year snap shooters and serious landscape photographers take to the road to leaf peep, photograph, and…
©Russ Burden By Russ Burden – Take Great Pictures.com Lots of great images can be made during the winter months but we wanted to focus on the topic of ice for this article… This winter it’s my strong hope that everyone who reads this article catches a cold. “That’s not very nice,” I hear you…
By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com Learn how to move objects using Photoshop in this month’s tutorial. Nature and people are my primary photographic subjects. While I love to make images of many others, it’s these two that prompted me to adopt the focus of this month’s tutorial. When I photograph people, communication allows me to…
©Russ Burden By Russ Burden Many image editing programs have stitching programs built in and if not, those solely dedicated to making panoramas are inexpensive and easy to use. We’ll get you started with our Panorama Photo Tips… Are you tired of being limited by the constraints of the standard aspect ratio your camera…
©Russ Burden By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com Learn to add fog and mist to your photographs to enhance the mood even if it wasn’t there when you took the picture Fog and mist add mood to an image. Both occur in calm weather conditions so it provides a tranquil and peaceful feeling. It’s more of…
By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com All digital cameras introduce noise into a capture. Factors that contribute to the amount are ISO, length of exposure, underexposure, size of the sensor, and how much cropping is done to the file. The higher the ISO, the more noise. Exposures of two seconds and longer introduce noise.…
©Russ Burden By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com To become a better photographer it’s imperative you learn how to interpret the amount, angle, direction, intensity, color, and contrast of the light. Subtle changes can make the difference between a magnificent image or a mediocre one. The word, photography, literally means “to write with light.” Light is…
©Russel Burden By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com To become a better photographer it’s imperative you learn how to interpret the amount, angle, direction, intensity, color, and contrast of the light. Subtle changes can make the difference between a magnificent image and a mediocre one. The word, photography, literally means “to write with light.” Light is…
By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com A great portrait captures a special moment. It could be a fleeting expression, a captivating glance, expressive eyes, or other factor that makes the image rise above snapshots of the same person where a photographer simply documents the looks. Yet sometimes the satisfaction of catching that special moment is not…
©Russell Burden By Russ Burden – TakeGreatPictures.com Where is it possible to see animals from the seven continents all in a few square miles? Where can you see wildlife of the Arctic and wear shorts and a T-shirt in the summer? How is it possible to go on safari and not have to book airline…
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