7 min read·2026-02-10
Street photography: how to start, and how to stop being scared of it
The hardest part of street photography is not the camera. It is the fear of being seen pointing it. Here is how I got past it.
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Notes on photography, travel, and the difficulty of looking.
7 min read·2026-01-13
How to shoot in low light without a flash
A pop-up flash flattens everything it touches. Here is how to keep the mood of a dim room and still come home with a sharp frame.
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6 min read·2025-12-09
Why your photos come out blurry, and how to fix it
There are only three kinds of blur. Once you can tell them apart, every one of them is fixable.
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6 min read·2025-11-11
The settings I use for almost every portrait
Not a secret formula — a sane starting point you can set in ten seconds and adjust from there.
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7 min read·2025-10-14
The exposure triangle, without the headache
ISO, aperture, shutter speed — three dials that share one job. Explained the way I wish someone had explained it to me.
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7 min read·2025-09-24
Aperture, in plain language: how to blur a background
The one camera setting worth understanding first, explained without the jargon — and why the numbers run backwards.
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6 min read·2025-08-20
The rule of thirds, and when to ignore it
The first composition rule everyone learns, why it works, and the day you should start breaking it on purpose.
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7 min read·2025-07-15
How to take a portrait that doesn't look posed
Stiff portraits are stiff for a reason you can fix. Five things that have nothing to do with the camera.
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6 min read·2025-06-10
Golden hour: the light that does half the work for you
Why the hour after sunrise and before sunset flatters almost everything, and how to actually use it instead of just standing in it.
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7 min read·2025-05-04
The print is the photograph
A file is a promise. The print is the thing kept. Why I do not consider a photograph finished until it exists on paper.
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6 min read·2025-04-06
What black and white takes away
Color is information. A portrait is usually about one thing, and most of the time the color is telling you about something else.
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8 min read·2025-03-09
How to ask a stranger if you may take their portrait
The picture is decided in the thirty seconds before the camera comes up. Most of those seconds have nothing to do with photography.
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7 min read·2025-02-11
On light, and how little of it you need
Twenty years in and I am still only photographing one thing. Not faces. Light, and what it does to a face when no one is arranging it.
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