The Fourth of July is nearly here and I saw some tips online that seem trustworthy. I’ve shot fireworks very successfully in the past with my own techniques. This year if we see them I’d rather just enjoy them more with my family. But here are some tips if you’re curious (William Yu).
Shooting lightning is something that I tried for the first time the other night and I managed to get some pretty good shots of it. Getting shots of lightning isn’t quite as hard or tricky as you might think. After a bit, I was able to get decent strikes in every single shot that I …
I hope that you had a wonderful Independence Day celebration this year. It was certainly a scorcher here in Boston. We took the kids to the Lincoln, MA fireworks display Sunday evening. It was well past their bed times, so we had them in their pajamas before we left the house. There was an incredible …
Recently on a trip with the family to a beach around Boston I took some photos. I didn’t use my tripod for a lot of the candid photos and the lens I had on was a powerful zoom. Suffice to say that most of the photographs were a touch blurry. In regards to exposure, compensating …
Tonight as I drove home having picked up dinner at Lotus Flower, I pulled to the side of the road. A nice sunset, a great amount of clouds. Light hitting some fluffy cattails. I took my camera with me as I ventured into the woods to the side, finding an old, abandoned road decades old …
I realize that’s it’s probably just one of those things that someone coming into photography needs to get out of their system, but I had a lot of fun doing it anyway. Photographing cars in the evening to capture those magical wisps of taillights and headlamps as they move through a scene. I did this …