If you think about it, what makes a photograph beautiful is generally attributed to composition—a process that relies on emotion, feelings, and intuition more than on logic and calculation. Good composition can make even the most mundane objects and subjects…
When photographing the holidays at home, some of the best moments are for making memories are found in the preparation. Look to photograph hands at work making cookies and everyone decorating the tree. It’s these intimate and thoughtful photographs that…
If you are looking for a creative path to photography, watch for things happening in a way that look and feel ‘out of place.’ The image here shows, being out of the expected order of things is often as much…
The clamshell technique is a variation of butterfly lighting but while both the position and purpose of the main light are essentially the same as in a butterfly setup, clamshell lighting differs from butterfly in the appearance and intensity of…
Shooting a portrait through glass is a fantastic storytelling technique in portrait photography. It requires determination to create the perfect result, particularly as glass can often have dirty smudges and will frequently reflect back dappled patches of light; but when…
There are countless benefits to shooting outside your main genre. To name a few: It opens you up to new styles and influences, broadens your range, makes you a better photographer, and, mainly, it’s just fun to try new things….
Perhaps one of the greatest myths about lenses in photography is that focal length affects perspective. So, you might hear or read something about wide-angle lenses increasing the space between elements in the frame to ‘expand’ the perspective, while telephoto…
Getting yourself physically out into the world with your camera has a great effect on your creativity. It also works as a group activity because you’ll all have something to keep busy with. While a photo walk can be a…
It’s one thing to be aware that your picture’s brightest areas are under threat, or are almost ruined. But how do you respond? First of all, you do not need to worry. Quite the contrary—it’s good that you are keeping…
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