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Lighting in portrait photography can be tricky, especially if you’re not in a studio setting or if you’re working by yourself. You don’t want to be lugging huge softboxes and extra equipment around everywhere. Or constantly stopping the shoot to move those softboxes around. In this case, a small, portable softbox can be a real […]
As photographers, we want to capture the things in life that are closest to our hearts. Often, to find that perfect mix of passion, love and beauty, we have to go out searching for it. But sometimes, if we’re lucky, the chance to photograph something that we love so much, something that just inspires us […]
Do you find it difficult to get the pay rate you think you deserve as a professional photographer? Do you often hear from potential clients that they love your work, but then they book someone else to do their shoot? Photographer Spencer Lum has some advice to help you raise prices without creating resistance: In this video, […]
When it comes to photographing some of the biggest names in the music industry, photographer Olaf Heine doesn’t think twice about taking a walk on the wild side. He has, after all, asked the likes of Sting to get tied up in chest-deep water with gaffer tape on his mouth and Snoop Dogg to wear […]
Photographer Clyde Butcher, known for his black-and-white Florida landscapes, works with antique cameras to create dramatic, evocative portraits of the state’s natural beauty. Compelled to reveal the “real” Florida, particularly little-known and little-documented landscapes such as the the swamps and backwoods, Butcher does his part to educate his community about the environment they live in. In a […]
I am sure many of us have fallen victim to camera snobbery at one time or another. That moment when a fellow photographer, belittles your camera or questions why you don’t have better equipment. This video from VEEP sums up the situation perfectly: In the clip one guy is about to shoot a fairly simple shot on […]
Being faced with the prospect of using off-camera flash sends many new photographers running for the hills. Learning to use flash effectively can be overwhelming, and it may seem easier to painstakingly seek out perfect, natural light for every photo shoot. However, gaining fluency with artificial lighting increases a photographer’s versatility. Flash allows the photographer […]
Fabrics, hats, animals, flowers and glasses are commonly used props for beauty portraits. They make the photo more interesting by giving the subject something to manipulate. Since beauty portraits involve only a subject, lighting and a prop, there’s more pressure on the model to express herself beautifully because she is the main focus of the […]
As a photographer, the chances of being familiar with the terms spot metering and AE lock are relatively great. They are common features on most DSLR cameras and ones that are often used. That being said, not everyone understands the science behind the two settings which is why the following video will prove to be […]
A windmill of silky parasols, monk-like silhouettes parading down a dusty path to infinity, metal structures on sky high accordion stilts… These are not creations of a foreign realm or off a fantasy movie set. These are real life. These are photographer Victor Habchy‘s beautiful, fantastical, and eerie images from Burning Man: Burning Man 2014 […]
