One of the questions that most people ask me in Ask David is how to capture lightning strikes. It seems impossible, doesn’t it? If lightning strikes so fast, how do photographers get it onto their cameras? I’ll let you in on a little secret. It’s a lot easier than you think. You only need a [...]

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Do you want to make your pictures more vibrant? As photographers, we are always looking for colorful times of day, colorful subjects, and colorful lighting. This isn’t easy. It usually means spending hours and hours just walking around scouting out locations. It means taking the time to learn manual camera settings to get the exposure [...]

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Humans are different from every other species on the planet. We don’t just carve out niches and build habitats for ourselves. Our homes, offices, and churches are actual works of art. That is the wonderful thing about photographing buildings. Because your work is already done for you, all you have to do is put a [...]

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So you’re ready to take your photography into the field and snap some shots of insects. While it might seem like a day in the park (quite literally), there are a lot of variables that go into getting a great picture of an insect. If you have struggled for years with poorly lit, underexposed, and [...]

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They’re the most stunning examples of photography you’ll ever see. When you flip through the pages of Time Magazine and National Geographic, you are confronted with the best of the best. How do these photographers do it? Are they simply lucky, do they have the right social connections, or is it much more than that? [...]

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