With it being summertime, I often have the window in my apartment cracked open. Being on the 14th floor (OK, really the 13th. NYC is apparently a superstitious place and there are very few floors labeled 13) I didn’t really expect much to be able to fly up that high but there are often many…
Pinterest boards give you the ability to organize your favorite images from Flickr and other photo-sharing sites. For the last few years, I’ve been a Flickr member and as a result, I have quite a large number of favorited images. Favoriting is a great way to show your appreciation and support for fellow photographers but…
I love looking through images, whether it’s online, in print, in a gallery or anywhere else for that matter. But I’m often left wondering “What is it I’m not seeing?”. Perhaps this is just me but I feel that the context around the image is just as fascinating as the image itself. When I see…
We all know the old adage “A picture’s worth a thousand words”. Well I’m not sure about 1,000 but it’s definitely worth quite a few and one of the things I like hearing about with people’s work is the story behind the image. Maybe it’s the mood that you remember when you shot it, or…
Welcome to Beyond Your Bag. This is a blog primarily aimed at the photographic community but will likely appeal to others as well. The idea is to freely share our knowledge with one another. Anything that will help achieve a better photograph is welcome. From the best vantage points to animal behavior to learning how to approach…
On a previous trip visiting family in India, my brother-in-law invited me to go to a place where he liked to hike and camp. It was a jungle just a little outside the city of Bangalore. It was actually quite odd to go to such a remote place while being so close to such a…
I was looking back over some of my earlier pictures and came across this one of a potter wasp on a blue, possibly purple, allium flower. I had just gotten my Sigma 150mm macro and was testing it out for the first time. This was when I realized that depth of field was so impactful.…
We’ve seen how cost based pricing can ensure a profit from each sale but ignores the competitive landscape. And we’ve seen how competitive based pricing can ensure you are, well.., competitive by being priced on par with your competition but fails to consider costs. The last method we’ll look at departs from these previous methods…
This is the second shot of mine at the Taj Mahal that is a favorite of mine. Primarily because it’s not the typical Taj shots, although I do have those as well. For this shot, we had made our way past the reflecting pool and gardens and had taken a look at the mosques flanking…
Last time we covered Cost Based pricing which considers pricing only from your point of view. This time we’ll take a look at the Competitive pricing method which looks outward at the marketplace around you. Again, this method is as it sounds. Price point is based on the many competitors out there selling the same,…
There comes a point in every photographers life when you dream the dream and think of selling your work. Because, hey, you’ve got some shots that are just as good as the pros. And once you get there, you have to figure out how much to charge for your pictures. Oh great! How the heck…
It’s funny, I’ve lived in NYC for several years now but never set foot on Roosevelt Island. For those that don’t know what Roosevelt Island is, it’s a thin strip of land in the East River (The river that runs along the east side of Manhattan). It’s roughly 2 miles long and less than 1000…
I’ve been playing around with the camera on the Samsung S5 and it’s been producing some pretty nice shots. But one of the features I was most interested in was the Shot & More Mode. This mode allows you to apply several effects to a shot, such as Drama Shot, Panning, Eraser, Best Face and…
Hi Everyone! I’m excited to announce that we’ve just launched a new feature at Beyond Your Bag. And that is an image gallery that can be used for backgrounds for your phone’s lock screen or home screen. Feel free to take a look, download or even add some of your own to the mix (at…
A little while back, in mid-January, we had several days of some incredible fog in NYC. It was so thick I couldn’t even see across the Hudson river to Jersey City let alone the buildings a block away. So it seemed like a good opportunity to go out and take some cool atmospheric shots. It…
