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Three tips, better shot: Getting the decisive moment

“The Decisive Moment” is one of the key basic concepts drilled into a photography student’s head when first starting out. In sports, it’s capturing the peak moment of a play. With your kids, it’s getting that perfect smile and head positioning. In the featured photo for this post, it’s all about getting the right mix … Continue reading “Three tips, better shot: Getting the decisive moment”

2015: Year in photos (oh, and welcome to this site!)

In 2011, I started Journographica, a blog dedicated to journalism, visuals, and visual journalism in as many forms as I cared to blog about. It was primarily aimed at my journalism students (I used to teach journalism at Stony Brook University) and it offered buying advice, shooting tips and other news and information on the … Continue reading “2015: Year in photos (oh, and welcome to this site!)”

I've worked as a multimedia journalist (that's pictures, video and words) at newspapers in Florida and upstate New York, I've got a master's degree in photography from Syracuse University, I've taught multimedia journalism at Stony Brook University for almost 6 years, and was a technical specialist at Canon USA.

I've used (and at one point or another, owned) everything from point-and-shoot cameras to full-frame DSLR and mirrorless cameras from Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Olympus, Sony and Fujifilm. I know my way around them all pretty well as that was what I was paid to do (and enjoyed).

That said, if I'm ever dispensing advice about medium format photography, film photography, or life, I'm probably wrong and/or lying. But you can believe all the other things I say about digital photography.