A Photography Lesson from my Sister
Over the holidays, I was lucky enough to get schooled in photography from the greatest photographer I know, my sister Molly. We were going through my supermoon night shots and some of the photos I had taken around the house while we were on vacation together.
We looked at the night shots first, and while it was clear that none of them were very good, Molly made some great suggestions on how I could make them better. I tried to collect many of those suggestions into a slideshow below.
One other thing that I couldn't capture in the slide show because I haven't tried it yet is to use some free editing software to make slight tweaks to my photographs. Molly told me that she generally tries not to use Photoshop to tweak photos except to make the same kinds of edits that could be made on analog film, in order to stay true to the art of photography. However, with Photoshop (or a free equivalent), she will crop a picture to bring the focus to the important objects, and she will adjust the coloring slightly to bring out contrast or brighten an image. There is a free version of Photoshop called Adobe Photoshop Express which I plan to use so that I can learn the basics of using Adobe software without paying for the full suite of products.
