Category Archives: Photography Fundamentals

Saddle up for Action with this Beginner’s Guide to Rodeo Photography Ever heard the expression “This ain’t my first rodeo”?  Well, it’s not.  I grew up in the shadow of the world’s biggest outdoor rodeo…Cheyenne Frontier Days.  I spent many cold mornings at the knee of my father as he announced slack or tagged along …

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Rodeo Photography: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

Unmanned air vehicles known as drones first appeared for military use over a century ago. Since then, the use of drones has captured the attention of commercial markets like real estate, construction, search and rescue, law enforcement, agriculture, media, and others. Aerial Drone Photography Tips: Getting Started What Drone Is Right for Me? What’s in …

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Drone Photography – How to Capture Those Jaw-dropping Aerial Shots

Incorporating a frame within a frame in the composition of a shot creates a structure for your image. It draws the eye to an area of your image, and a frame within a frame is a photography technique you can use to tell a story or develop your aesthetic as a photographer. What is a …

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How to Use Frame Within a Frame to Change Perspective

Like any other type of artist, it is a photographer’s job to tell a story through their pictures. While some of the most creative among us can invoke emotion or convey a thought with one single photo, the rest of us will rely on photo essays. In the following article, we’ll go into detail about …

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Pictures That Tell Stories: Photo Essay Examples

Exposure is an important concept in photography. It refers to the amount of light that hits your camera sensor and determines how bright your photo will look. There are different ways of playing with exposure to make unique effects. Double exposure photography is an aesthetic technique you can achieve by exposing your sensor to light …

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The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Double Exposure Photography

Add motion and make your images more dynamic when you master panning photography! Most of the time, photographers do everything in our power to avoid blur in our images. But used correctly, intentionally adding a type of motion blur can enhance your images. Learn how and why to master panning in photography! What is panning? …

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4 Reasons to Master Panning Photography

Power on, set your camera to favorite mode, and adjust for light. Oh! And take the lens cap off and you are all set to shoot… smash down on that shutter button. If that is more or less how you go about getting your photos as a street photographer, then you are well on your way …

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6 Street Photography Tips to Take your Photos to The Next Level!

Using a white background, also known as high key photography, is one way that photographers create an expressive or joyful atmosphere in their photos. This technique is especially popular in portrait photography when the photographer wants to make sure the subject is the focus of the photo.  Tips to Create a White Background in High …

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How to Create the Perfect Bright White Background for Photography

What lens should you buy next? It all depends on your needs, budget, and style! Read any photography forum and you’ll find the same questions get brought up over and over again.  One of those is “what lens should you buy next?”  Lenses are expensive.  No one wants to make a bad investment into a …

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What Lens Should You Buy Next? Building A Lens Kit

Scenes so nice, you’ll see them twice! 5 Tips for Capturing Water Reflections (Plus two cheats!) If I had to pick a favorite type of landscape scene, it would probably involve a water reflection. There’s just something serene and peaceful about an image with water. If symmetry and mirror images are your creative jam, too, …

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5 Super Simple Tips for Capturing Water Reflections

Have you found yourself wondering: What the heck is aspect ratio? You’re not alone. Aspect ratio a fundamental digital photography concept that can be quite confusing at first. Chances are, you’ve seen numbers representing common aspect ratios, including: 1:1 3:2 4:3 5:4 7:5 8.5:11 16:9 What do these numbers mean? And how can they make a …

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What is Photo Aspect Ratio and Definition? It’s Not as Difficult as you Think!

Some photos are beautiful enough to look like blended paintings and can rack in plenty of comments when you post them on your Instagram. However, finding ways to blur or blend the background without using special effects in photoshop can be tricky. One way that photographers can create unique effects without having to do any …

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What is an ND Filter Chart and Should Photographers Use One?

If you’re in the midst of experiencing a little photographer’s block, trying a new type of photography can help get your creative juices flowing again. Maybe all you need to do is try taking a peek into the future with crystal ball photography. Crystal balls have a rich history, and their use in photography is …

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How to Master Creative Crystal Ball Photography

Steel wool photography is a light painting technique that produces amazing results. You can get a steel wool photograph with a few simple items, and there are a lot of possibilities to explore with that material. What is Steel Wool Photography? Steel wool is a cleaning product that is typically used to polish surfaces or …

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Painting with Light: Steel Wool Photography

Check out our Lens Calibration 101 guide on why and how to adjust your lenses! There are a lot of different reasons your images might not be as sharp as you want. Dirty equipment, the wrong camera settings or even your shooting stance can affect the sharpness of your images. But if you find that …

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Lens Calibration 101: The Why and How of tweaking your lens

As a sub-genre of portrait photography, you’ve probably seen plenty of milk bath photography images pop up as a recent trend. By turning everyone’s favorite drink into a prop, photographers have been able to capture stunning, minimalistic portraits.  If you’ve never experimented with milk bath photography, the genre can feel intimidating. Whether you’re an amateur …

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The Comprehensive Guide to How to Create Milk Bath Photography

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