Category Archives: The Art & Craft of Picture Taking

Wide-Angle Portraiture

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Allan Weitz

There are a number of reasons you’d want to use a lens with an angle-of-view (AOV) of about 28 to 20-degrees, which depending on format you’re shooting to can be an 85-105mm (full-frame 35), 55- 70m (APS-C), etc. For starters, … Continue reading →

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Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Allan Weitz

Most casual shooters don’t think much about aspect ratios when they’re out taking pictures, and even among those that do, how many do you think actually take the time and trouble to switch between  4:3 , 2:3, or 16:9 before … Continue reading →

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Biking through the Bokeh

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Allan Weitz

Back before the leaves turned colors and fell away from the trees, I was out on my old Schwinn when I had an “Ah-hah!” moment. It had to do with a conversation I had a few days earlier with a good … Continue reading →

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Nighttime. It’s the New Daytime

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Allan Weitz

For the longest time the rule of thumb for taking sharp hand-held photographs was to never take a picture at a shutter speed slower than the focal length of your lens. In other words, if you were shooting with a … Continue reading →

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True Stories: The Day Mother Nature Blinked

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Allan Weitz

When people hear you take pictures of boats for a living, they start getting all sorts of pictures in their minds about sunny isles, gentle breezes, and all else that comes with the ‘good life’. Admittedly, there are times when … Continue reading →

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How to Make a Gray Barge Sing

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Allan Weitz

About two years before the twin towers fell, I got a call from a shipbuilder down in Louisiana who was about to launch the first of a fleet of barges slated for duty in and around the New York harbor. … Continue reading →

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The Sweetest Light of the Year

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Allan Weitz

One of the better metaphors I’ve come up with to describe the difference between mid-day light during the summer months and winter months is to compare them to an overhead lamp at full Wattage (summer light) compared to a desk … Continue reading →

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Same Place, A Time Apart

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Allan Weitz

One of the benefits of shooting on location is having the opportunity to travel to places both near and far and finding interesting subjects to photograph along the way.  On many occasions I’ve returned to, or at the very least, … Continue reading →

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One Last Dance with Film

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Allan Weitz

I last peered through the ocular of my Schneider 4x Lupe in August 2001. Little did I know I was editing my last rolls of slide film as I hunched over my light box, eyeballing a dozen or so boxes … Continue reading →

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