by btharp | Dec 9, 2011 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, photo news, photo tips
Bristlecone Pine and Star Trails, California Jim M. Goldstein, a colleague, has just published a new e-book on the 4th dimension in photography – time. In this easy-to-read-book, he discusses long exposures, light painting, and compositing images of star...
by btharp | Aug 13, 2011 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, creative ideas, nature photography, photo tips, photography, The Blog, Thoughts on Creativity, workshops & photo tours
I’ll be posting just a few more from our Palouse Photo Tour that just ended, as I’m finally getting time to review what I created and do some post-processing. This morning we set out to photograph a red barn, with windmill and white fence in morning light....
by btharp | Apr 1, 2011 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, creative ideas, photo tips, photography, The Blog, travel photography
While leading the instructional tours in San Cristóbal, (S.C.) Mexico, we found this very cool wall of graffiti. Sadly, many of the colorful walls in S.C. are covered with tagging type of graffiti – making it a challenge to photograph the colors the way we had...
by btharp | Feb 28, 2011 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, photo tips, road trip, The Blog, travel photography
Photographing people in this area of the world is difficult. The indigenous people have been photographed so much that they seem to have ‘camera radar’ and can spot you when your standing 80 feet away with a telephoto pointed in there direction! Well...
by btharp | Jan 7, 2011 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, photo tips, photography, The Blog, workshops & photo tours
I was on my way to a special river access in Maine for mist rising off the river one Autumn, and, running a little late, rushed past this pond along the way. Nothing was happening at that moment, except mist rising off it – no color. By the time I got to the...
by btharp | Dec 28, 2010 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, creative ideas, Insights, iphone Apps, nature photography, Photo equipment, photo tips, photography, Processing Techniques, Special Effects, The Blog
I was walking the dog with my partner Jed Manwaring – and had just my phone with me. But in the spirit of always looking at the world around me, I was noticing all the luscious green hues that were everywhere – ferns, mosses, grasses. OK sorry to those in...