In the Field: Photo Blog by Richard Wong

Photography field reports by Richard Wong. Richard’s work has been published in magazines, books, advertising, and offers fine art prints of his work. Images may be licensed as rights-managed stock photos by contacting Richard directly at Richard@rwongphoto.com or (626) 422-6151. California stock photography, fine art prints, photo blog: www.rwongphoto.com

Film Photography in the Digital Age

I took this photo not long after moving to San Francisco in 2002, which was also the year that I started to take photography seriously. Digital photography wasn’t that advanced back then so I was primarily shooting with Fuji Velvia. I have to admit that I miss the feeling of anticipation while opening a box [...]

Why PC’s Suck: Mac Switch – My New Digital Photography Darkroom

I recently purchased a Mac Pro Duo Quad Core computer. I normally wouldn’t write about technology on my photo blog because honestly I don’t pay attention to technology news. However, as a life-long PC-user (since the late 80’s), I felt compelled to offer my reasons for switching to Mac since the photographers who read this [...]

ISO 12800

I’m just getting over the flu which I’ve had since I got the 5D Mark II. Needless to say, I haven’t had many chances to test it out. So I brought the camera along last week and snapped a few high ISO photos indoors at Lala’s Argentine Grill in Studio City. Since there was a [...]

Recommended Photo Gear

If you frequent my blog you might have noticed the “Recommended Gear” link at the upper right corner. I’ve been working on updating this with equipment that I think aspiring professional photographers in the travel and landscape genres should own. At the minimum this gear should be enough to create images that are accepted at [...]

Mixing Flash with Ambient Light

I’ve been asked several times in the past about how to use flash in a natural-looking manner so I figured this would be a good opportunity to finally post this entry that I started writing last year.
Young People Dancing the Night Away, Venice Beach, California
Aside from the fact that the above image was photographed [...]

China Camp State Park Then and Now

Photo: Old Historic Shrimp Fishing Village and Female Sunbather, China Camp State Park, California
Clearly I prefer color photography but there are certain situations where color can be a distraction. For this image of the last remaining Chinese shrimp fishing village in the San Francisco Bay Area, I wanted to juxtapose the historical aspects of [...]

San Francisco Coast Guard Pier

Photo: Coast Guard Pier, San Francisco, California
When there is an image that has a strong center of attention, I find that it can be beneficial to add some vignetting around the edges to help draw the eyes toward that subject instead of drifting off to the corners of the frame. In this particular image, I [...]

Camera Dust X-Ray Vision

For all of the great benefits that being a photographer in the digital-era provides, there are a few soul-draining aspects to digital that most photographers dread. One of which is dust. Dust always seems to creep up long after you thought you had cleaned your camera sensor and cloned each of them out of the [...]

Las Vegas Photos Found at Last!

Photo Caption: Arc de Triomphe and Paris Water Fountains, Las Vegas, Nevada
If you read my blog in December, you probably know that I lost half of my Las Vegas trip photos due to a portable Image Tank flash drive failure. So last week I decided to power up the hard drive again. Same result. [...]

The High Cost of Sin

My brother and I just got back from a great three day trip to Sin City aka. Las Vegas, Nevada last night and I was going to post some photos and write a little about the trip but my portable hard drive crashed last night as I was attempting to upload the photos onto my [...]

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