Sickles Insight

Tips & Tricks – “The Silhouette”

SKILL LEVEL: Beginner
HOW IT WORKS: While the silhouette seems like a simple effect to create, it can be very powerful and compelling when used correctly. The silhouette is a study of shapes and light; … lines and […]

Tips & Tricks – “Motion”

SKILL LEVEL: Advanced
HOW IT WORKS: Giving an image motion often involves blurring in some form. There are many different techniques and approaches to capturing motion, most of which are hard to execute properly, but with practice and a […]

From Grand Rapids, Michigan - this article was sent to me by a friend and reader of Sickles Insight in search of more exposure for Ann and her amazing photography! Some of the images found on her new blog and her gallery are amazing. Many of you know that I lived in Grand Rapids for […]

A Bad Day at Coca-Cola: It looks to me like someone was having an off day at the Coke plant today. Photograph courtesy of my brother.

This is kind of a repost. Becky reminded me that people like images and not text. In fact, you probably aren’t even reading this. I should have remembered that earlier. So this is kind of a repost of previous material but with more captivating links! Click at will:

Tips & Tricks – “Frame within a Frame”

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate
HOW IT WORKS: When composing a picture, include some foreground material in front of your subject that helps frame the subject. Often this involves stepping back or looking through something which can artistically bring attention to the subject being photographed. This technique works because […]

A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
That’s as verbose as my computer would get. Restarting provided the same exact routine, and although I could access the BIOS - there was nothing there that could help me. My hard disk took a serious hit and I was down and out because of it. At […]

My father (a civil engineer) sent me these pictures a few years ago. I just recently found them while restoring my failed hard drive. I dumped them to a flash format so that you could take a look at them on the web and enjoy them in the same way I did. There are three […]