Rita Pignato is a fine art photographer with an emphasis on landscape, travel, architecture, street photography and printing. Rita spent thirty years in the print production business before fully pursuing her passion for photography. She always loved photography, but life and her career put her love of the art on the back burner. Rita took [...]
National Geographic Traveler recently named the San Juan Islands one of the best summer destinations for 2011. Well, Nati Geo, we are way ahead of you on this one … or at least our instructor Eileen Rafferty is. Eileen will be leading a photography workshop in the San Juans at the end of August. This [...]
This image was taken by Melanie Wright.
Following my adventure with bees, I put away the Speedlite, screwed on Canon’s dual macro flash (with diffusers), and haven’t looked back. The versatility of being able to so easily adjust the intensity (exposure compensation) and direction of light along an arc has opened up new possibilities for lighting and clarity in my macro images. [...]
This image was taken by Melanie Wright.
In June’s assignment, participants were asked to photograph something, anything, for 60 seconds. As easy as it sounds, people found this assignment to be challenging. How do you adjust your camera settings to keep your shutter speed at 60 seconds without overexposing the image? Some of the things people did were to use a neutral [...]
The summer is a perfect time to practice using the “Sunny 16″ method of exposure. Sunny 16 is a way to determine the exposure of a scene without a meter. Seem difficult? It’s really not. Neil Chaput de Saintonge’s recent articles on Sunny 16 are chock full of great information that simplifies this technique and [...]
This photograph was taken by Marcy James.
This past Sunday was the Missoula Marathon and RMSP alum Tom Robertson has thousands of images to prove it. Tom attended the Career Training Program in 2008. Since starting his own photography business, Tom has very successfully combined “his impulse to document with a love of sport and adventure.” When he’s not traveling to places [...]
There is a good chance that if you are using Sunny 16 and shooting in bright sunlight there will be a lot of shadows. As I discuss in Part I & Part II of my Sunny 16 article, this requires a little bit of exposure adjustment to maintain details in those shadows. This set of [...]
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