The following is an excerpt from The Enthusiast’s Guide to Travel Photography by Jordana Wright. INSPIRE WANDERLUST My hope is that the photographs I create on my journeys will inspire other people to step away from their regular lives and…
But, oh! Those Summer Nights… Here on the California coast, we contend with a marine layer of ocean haze that hugs the summer mornings like a blanket. Affectionately (or otherwise) called “May Grey”, “June Gloom”, or “Fogust”, this mist generally…
The following article is an excerpt from The Enthusiast’s Guide to Night and Low-Light Photography by Alan Hess. How to Get Those Starburst Street Lights To create a starburst effect around the visible light sources in an image you simply…
The following article is an excerpt from Glenn Randall’s book Dusk to Dawn. A moonlit walk in the wilderness is an enchanting experience. The world is familiar, yet transformed. The light seems to have a silvery, bluish quality. Shadows are…
The following excerpt is taken from the book Astrophotography by Thierry Legault. The term deep-sky encompasses different families of celestial objects quite varied in nature, dimension, and morphology. Special attention must be paid to the wavelengths of luminous radiation they…
The following is an excerpt from Scott Kelby’s The Landscape Photography Book. Ummm, It’s How to Make HDRs and Panos I hope, by now, you’ve learned that in the world of photography, things are not always as they seem—capital letters…
The following is an excerpt from David duChemin’s book, The Soul Of The Camera. There’s a quote going around the internet that’s sometimes attributed to me, but I know I didn’t say it first. I believe I heard photographer and…
This is an excerpt from 50 Things Photographers Need To Know About Focus by John Greengo. What’s in focus and what’s out of focus plays a huge role in any photograph. The human eye is naturally drawn to subjects that…
The following article is an excerpt from Nick Fancher’s Studio Anywhere 2: Hard Light. Long-exposure photography is an art form. It brings a bit of unpredictability back to photography which, since its switch from film to digital, has become rather…
With the solstice just around the corner, it’s time to revisit your New Year’s resolution to read more books. Check out our 2019 Rocky Nook summer reading list, with titles that will inspire your creative eye, hone your process with…