GH Nagai Photographics

Legitimate Questions


Got Questions...?

Ask away about any of the following:
  • Anything related to any aspect of photography.
  • Digital vs. Film: A grain of truth...
  • Understanding exposure: Is it necessary with digital?
  • Digital photography and the purist - is it photography?
  • Digital photography, photo-journalism, and art...
  • Auto-exposure programs, and why you might use them?
  • Auto-exposure vs. manual exposure - speed vs. control.
  • Auto-focus vs. manual focus - the eyes have it...
  • Shooting into the sun - dangers and why do it...?
  • High contrast scenes - alternatives to screaming & cursing.
  • The Third Eye in Photography: Discovering your visual voice.
  • Bounce flash vs. direct flash - What is it, and why do it...?
  • Macro-photography - up close and, um, up close...
  • Plane-of-focus / depth-of-field - plane truth about seeing clearly...
  • Landscape photography - opening your vistas.
  • The artist & Urban landscapes.
  • Eliot Porter & Intimate landscapes.
  • Portraiture & being "just the family historian..."
  • Film as your least expensive piece of equipment (a mind-set for digital photographers).
  • The artist's Eye: Your most precious piece of equipment.
  • Equipment* I use, and why - or why not...
  • Lenses: Which ones...? - What do you want to see...?
  • How my head is screwed on around equipment.
  • Perspective on the unending need for new & better equipment.
  • Does bigger make a difference?
  • Disillusionment when pricey equipment can't save the shot.
  • Photography as a meditative process.
  • The medium of photography as art.
  • Identity as photographer and artist - and, human being.
  • Consideration of art and its relationship to beauty.
  • Beauty and its relationship to photography.
  • Life and the necessity of Beauty.
  • The medium as the massage (For you older folk!).
  • Self-expression through any artistic medium of your choosing.
  • Discovering one's visual voice, and trusting your heart's desire.
  • Photography & Flight: The portal to Wonderland
  • How to deal with perfectionism - your own, and that of others.
  • A cost/benefit analysis of photography to an introvert.
  • Other questions on your mind...


* See What I Use in The Way of Equipment...

I will share whatever I know about the art of photography and its associated craft, thoughts on my personal vision, and its importance in my work - and, pretty much anything else that may be on your mind...

If you stump me and I don't know the answer, I'll check it out and get back to you, or think of where I can send you for an answer...