A Introduction to Flash Modifiers

A Introduction to Flash Modifiers

Learn how and when to use flash modifiers to create dramatic and beautiful scenes! You’ve decided to incorporate flash into your workflow.  You may have even invested in some equipment and taken a few shots.  But when it comes to flash modifiers, you’re still pretty much in the dark.  What’s the difference between an octabox…

To Click or Not To Click: Is Film Photography Right For You?

To Click or Not To Click: Is Film Photography Right For You?

Have you heard about the romantic notions surrounding film photography and wondered if you should give it a shot? If that isn’t you, then you must be young enough to have never used analog (film) cameras yourself, and are now curious about what film photography actually is. What is film photography? Put simply, film photography…

Break Down the Door into Fashion Photography

Break Down the Door into Fashion Photography

Raise your hand if you caught every single episode of America’s Next Top Model. Except, instead of daydreaming of becoming a model, you were itching to be behind the camera at those glamorous fashion photography shoots. Who can blame you? Those fashion photography shoots were clearly no easy feat, but the end result were stunning…

Photography Backdrops Basics: Outfitting Your Studio

Photography Backdrops Basics: Outfitting Your Studio

Outfitting your studio or business with photography backdrops doesn’t have to be complicated or costly! Maybe the weather is limiting your outdoor sessions.  Maybe you just want to start offering studio-based portrait sessions.  But choosing photography backdrops, stands and props is confusing, never mind the lighting and the six hundred other things you might need. …

Flash Photography Introductions: Meet Your Flash

Flash Photography Introductions: Meet Your Flash

Learn flash photography one step at a time by getting to know your flash first. Did the first time you pulled out your flash feel a bit like an awkward first date?  There the two of you sat, staring blankly at each other, not really sure about the next move.  You tried consulting the flash…

Time-Lapse Photography: Photography Life in the fast lane

Time-Lapse Photography: Photography Life in the fast lane

Time-Lapse Photography – Hit the gas and speed up life with some visual trickery! If you’re a nature nerd like me, you are no stranger to time-lapse photography.  This technique is a favorite on nature documentaries like Planet Earth or Frozen Planet to show the passage of time on the environment and make it fit…

Take Your Time with Long Exposure Photography

Take Your Time with Long Exposure Photography

Change your view with long exposure photography!  Use longer shutter speeds to create texture, depth and light in your scene! Long exposure photography is a straight forward technique that can add new depths to your images.  By simply changing the length of time we leave our camera’s shutter open, we can completely change the images…

Nature Photography: Mountains to Seas and Everything in Between

Nature Photography: Mountains to Seas and Everything in Between

Does nature photography seem like an elusive hobby made only for the outdoor experts? Your perception couldn’t be further from the truth! The beautiful thing about nature photography is that anyone can try it! Just like nature is full of living things of all shapes and sizes, nature photography is for photographers of all skill…

The History of Photography: Facts and Notes to Wow Your Friends

The History of Photography: Facts and Notes to Wow Your Friends

Do you know who invented the camera?  Where the first image was ever recorded?  Learn more about the history of photography right here! Paris Hilton once claimed she invented the selfie.  Um…no.  The first self-portrait was actually taken by Robert Cornelius in 1839.  Sorry Ms. Hilton but you’re 64,9070 days late and a dollar short. …

Photography Abbreviations and Acronyms Decoded

Photography Abbreviations and Acronyms Decoded

Learn these photography abbreviations and fast track your understanding of cameras, shooting and printing, PDQ! ISO, AWB, RGB…WTH?  What does it all mean?  Learning to shoot, edit and print beautiful images is hard enough without the need to decipher the many acronyms and photography abbreviations used by the industry.  It feels a bit like falling…

Photography Techniques To Elevate You From Amateur To Professional

Photography Techniques To Elevate You From Amateur To Professional

Have you ever had a photo ruined because your cell phone or camera couldn’t capture it right? Anyone can take a cell phone photo, but only the best cell phone photos incorporate photography techniques. Replace your cell phone with a proper camera and those same techniques will bring your photos to the next level. How…

Finding Your Photographic Style: Five Lessons from Ernest Hemingway

Finding Your Photographic Style: Five Lessons from Ernest Hemingway

What can an hard-living, hell-raising author from several decades ago teach you about finding your photographic style?  Maybe more than you think! I never imagined I could learn a thing or two about finding my photographic style from Ernest Hemingway.  But I did.  Did ALL high-schoolers have to read something by Hemingway, or was that…

Macro Photography: A Beginners Guide to Small Details and Big Fun!

Macro Photography: A Beginners Guide to Small Details and Big Fun!

Interested in exploring new worlds with macro photography? Check out our guide to getting those details! There is something inherently magical about macro photography for me.  I love making the small big, seeing the previously unnoticed.  I can lose myself completely in the minutiae, wandering among lines and shapes and textures of even the most…

Depth of Field – DOF Explained Easy

Depth of Field – DOF Explained Easy

It’s DOF PDQ.  Or understanding depth of field quickly. Browse any photography forum and you’re likely to see the acronym DOF bandied about, along with accompanying discussions of a term called depth of field.  Understanding depth of field (DOF) and knowing how to use it correctly is an important skill for every photographer to have. …