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In the real estate business, your photos will be the first things that potential customers will see before they visit any property. It is thus vital that your photos look inviting inside and out. While many photographers invest a lot of time and resources in making the inside of the house look great, they often […]
Darn, I missed the last eclipse of a full moon. Oh well, now I have to wait for the next one. To be sure I don’t miss it the next time, I am arming myself with this catalog of lunar eclipses from NASA. I’ve photographed the moon many times—and one eclipse. I prepared this article to […]
Your photographs are merely snapshots if the viewers do not engage with them. You don’t want the viewer to simply glance at your photos and say they look nice. Instead, aim to make viewers pause when they look at your photos; make them take some time to wander through them. The question then becomes, how […]
This article is based on concepts from The Photography Action Cards if you want to dig deeper for further training. Do you remember the children’s game, Barrel of Monkeys? The one where you would hook their curved arms into a chain until you dropped one? I did a little research on the phrase “barrel of […]
The beauty of macro photography lies in the fact that it allows us to capture the minute details of a subject. And because we need to get really close to the subject, lighting is often a challenge, because the camera itself blocks off most of the light hitting the subject. In today’s video, photographer David […]
In photo editing news, Topaz Labs just announced a new update to Gigapixel AI. Designed to do the impossible with machine-learning-powered image enlargement. Upscale your photos by up to 600% while perfectly preserving image quality. See how it works here: Topaz A.I. Gigapixel Photo Enlarger After being trained with millions of sample images to learn […]
Artists put considerable effort into deciding on their compositions. Besides visual judgement, artists are also influenced by geometrical relationships. Simply put, dynamic symmetry is a grid system which is geometrically designed to promote continuity, flow, rhythm, and balance within an artistic design. Photographer Tavis Leaf Glover explains how you can get started with the fundamentals […]
Night/astro/star/star-trail photography—whatever you want to call it, this is a genre which has become increasingly popular over the past couple of years (partly connected with the increase in sensitivity of reasonably-priced camera sensors over the same period). The irony being that it’s also one of the easiest forms of photography that yields some of the […]
During the course of your photography journey, you will potentially learn hundreds of skills. But at the end of the day, you will realize that not all of those skills and techniques are equally useful. In fact, some could be holding you back. It is therefore important to identify a certain skill set that has […]
Photographing the moon can be tricky. Last year I had a go at it, and it was a complete disaster, with the moon looking like a big, bright, blurry mass in the sky. After a bit of trial and error I discovered how to take nice shots of the moon. The right lens The first […]
