On Saturday those who are participating in the October Photo Challenge are going to be creating silhouette pictures, and I thought some of you who are newer to photography might be wondering how you can do this. It’s actually incredibly easy. Just make sure that all of the light is coming from behind your subject. [...]

I’m impressed by all of those with turnaround times that allow them to get their challenge photos up the day of, or the day after. I’m going to stick with one a week through the rest of October. Have you seen the challenge participant list lately? It’s enormous! I love being part of something that [...]

Are you doing it with me? We start tomorrow with a self-portrait. If you don’t want to use a timer or have somewhere to place your camera, you can always do a self-portrait in the mirror, like I did in this shot in Poland. Details and participant list here on Our Wired Lives!

Two years ago The Image is Found went to Italy and posted about some self-portraits they did. Two years, and I still remember that blog post! (That’s how you know it’s a good one.) I thought of it often in Italy when we were taking pictures of each other, or asking other people to take [...]

I’m still only like halfway through all of my photos, but some of the first edits I did was putting together the panoramas I made using the Brenizer method* (see some really phenomenal examples of what this method can do for portraits here). It’s so fun to see the end product after Photoshop stitches all of [...]