Bryan Stovall Photography

An earlier post last week featured the Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island, but there are lots more churches there. Here is a sampling of some of the others, along with the Post Office at Adam’s Run, a tiny community on the way to Edisto.

How to Give Your Images a Luminescent Feel « Nature’s Best by Don Smith Photography. This is a nice tutorial by Don Smith demonstrating some of the same techniques that I use with nature, as well as real estate photography to create a much more interesting image.

In the relatively short history of digital photography, I can’t remember anything as revolutionary, trendsetting, and divisive,  as “high dynamic range”, better known as simply HDR. I remember well when i first saw it, and going, “Wow”. I knew it had real potential, but also lots of drawbacks. I immediately downloaded the original Photomatix Pro, […]

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One of the saddest stories of the European settlement of America is the removal of the native Americans, the Lower Creek, the Upper Creek, the Seminole, and finally, with the discovery of gold in North Georgia at Dahlonega, the Cherokee, were forced from their native lands, and removed to Oklahoma on the “Trail of Tears”.  […]

Parents, please, please, please, don’t ever point a camera at your child and tell them to say cheese! There is good reason for the term, “cheesy photograph”, or “cheesy grin”. And it is not a good thing. I don’t think I have ever had a usable image of a child saying “Cheese”. So why do […]

In the current, March issue of Professional Photographer Magazine, Lorna Gentry has a great list of do’s and don’ts for brides regarding makeup and tanning. I have seen the best and worst of makeup and tanning over my years of photographing weddings, and feel that this is one of the best lists I’ve seen. There […]

“My dad always used to say, ‘It’s better to have 50 unbelievable photographs than 100 mediocre ones.’ It’s true. Before I push the shutter, I always ask myself, Would someone buy this photograph? If the answer is no, then I don’t take it.” -Andy Marcus from Professional Photographer, March 2010 This quote, from one of […]

Savannah is a beautiful town, with amazing wedding venues full of history and romance for the couple planning a location event. Whether you choose a cathedral, a small church or chapel, one of our beautiful squares, or the beach, it is hard to go wrong. We have many wonderful wedding planners who can help you […]

One of my favorite photographer/teachers was asked in a seminar,  “What is the secret to making great, interesting photographs?” His reply was to travel to magnificent places to shoot. Now don’t get me wrong, nobody likes to travel and photograph more than I, but I think his off the cuff answer was very off the […]