Patrick Ecclesine is a 29-year-old freelance photographer who was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is currently working on his first book titled "Faces of Sunset" which features a series of portraits taken along Sunset Boulevard. You can see his work at: www.ecclesine.com.

I'm a shooter, a...

To encourage a child to open their eyes and look at the world, to move him or her to create and use their imagination is what inspired Winifred Meiser when she founded the nonprofit educational organization "Through...

Photographer for over 40 years, author and contributor to numerous books and journals on traditional and digital photography as well as a past teacher at the New England School of Photography, University of Idaho, and Colorado Mountain College, George...

Recently I've begun to look at things differently. As a working commercial photographer, much of my work consists of really tack-sharp images. While I've always worked with foreground and background areas that may be out of focus, the...

Regardless of the type of equipment that we use, image blur caused by hand and body motion is one of the principal causes of unsatisfactory photos. It's especially difficult to make razor-sharp images when shooting with a handheld camera in low light...

Double exposing is a great way of restoring a sense of excitement to your photography. It's the secret search for serendipity, and a small prayer for the suspension of disbelief. That suspense you used to feel of capturing an image on film and seeing...

If you recall our review of the Lexar 4GB CompactFlash card in the November, 2003, issue of Shutterbug, we went to great lengths to explain why some cameras (at least at that time) couldn't accept the card, or at least couldn't deliver the 4GB capacity. It all has to do with FAT 16...