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Refined photography uses distinct lighting strategies. Knowing what to look for is essential when the goal is a unique and artistically stylized photograph. To be creative you have to know the basics. Creating a foundation from which to build on your basic expertise requires close attention, experimentation, patience, and passion for your media. Photography sets […]
Ever wonder why your flash photography looks, well, a bit too “flashy”? Perhaps you’re great at balancing the flash with ambient light but have never really looked beyond that. In this video, wedding photographer Robert Hall explains the four ways we see light and how we can control how our images come out: Most of us […]
People add life to an image and make it more relevant to viewers. But how do you approach complete strangers to take their photo? Moreover, if you’re traveling and don’t speak their language, how do you communicate? Professional travel and documentary photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich shares some great tips: One Common Sense Rule “Be a human […]
For taking top-class snapshots of your pet, you don’t have to be a professional photographer. Just by keeping a few essential things in mind, you can easily capture outstanding shots. Let’s learn how to take better digital photographs of pets. Try to capture your pet’s unique personality Each pet has a unique personality. Some are […]
Photographing inanimate objects is easier than photographing people, right? In reality, that’s not always the case; there are a lot of steps involved. Photographer Chrissie White with COOPH presents this tutorial on still life photography in which she explains her creative process: Finding Props For the purpose of this video, White looks for objects in COOPH’s […]
Today’s DSLR photo tip, the photo histogram explained, involves using the (gulp) histogram. This is another of those features found on most of the higher end cameras that you probably aren’t using. But you should! What is the histogram? The photo histogram is that graph that looks like a mountain range with spikes shooting up […]
Photography involves a mix of the skills of taking a photograph and the knowledge to edit it. But possibilities are infinite with post-processing. Photographers have the ability to manipulate images to their liking. Is there a limit at which an image becomes a lie? Or should editing be readily accepted without any questions asked? Photographer […]
We already covered bride photography tips. Now it’s time to discuss the groom. Photographing the groom seems to fall into two categories for me. Either I don’t get to be with the groom until he arrives at the church/ceremony room, or I’m flitting between the bride and the groom because they’re in the same location getting […]
You probably don’t always carry a flash around with you. But don’t let that stop you from taking nighttime portraits. Photographer Pye Jirsa takes up the challenge of photographing portraits at night using his phone’s flashlight as a light source: Jirsa starts by placing the subject behind a sculpture so that it creates a frame around […]
Bokeh refers to the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus area in an image. Carefully taken images have the subject in sharp focus while the distractions melt away in the soft bokeh. Photographer David Flores from B&H discusses seven ways you can create buttery bokeh: 1. Create Distance It’s important that you put some distance between […]
