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One of the things I like to do to get myself out of a rut is to shoot some photographs in monochrome, especially portraits. It doesn’t have to be all of the images that I’ll make during a session; maybe just a few to, you know. see what happens.

When looking at some of the glamour and boudoir portraits I post on Instagram, my friend Barry Staver often mentions that some of them have my trademark high-key look. But I also shoot low-key portraits too.

San Francisco de Asis Mission church is a historic and architecturally significant church that located on the main plaza of Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. It was built between 1772 and 1816 and is, according to widely held beliefs, one of the finest extant examples of a Spanish Colonial New Mexico mission church. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

Like last week, this Sunday’s Available Light Portraiture theme takes a different turn as we follow up yesterday's post about exposure metering methods with a down-in-the-weeds look at a specific manual exposure technique. Today’s portrait is of Devra, a beautiful...

These days DSLRs and mirrorless cameras offer multiple methods for metering how that light is reflected in a scene. The most common methods include…

These days, many but not all, DSLRs and mirrorless cameras have a built-in flash. That’s not necessarily true for the so-called Professional models even though having a small flash available with the click of a button can make the difference between a good photograph and a not-so-good one.