Welcome back!Help your model look their best (or help yourself look better in photos): If your model is balding, shoot from a lower angle to show less of their hair and don’t use a hair light at all. If your model has a larger nose then have them look straight at the camera and shoot …
Natural Light Photography : Painting with the Sun
There’s something inherently special about using natural light for your photography. I love the creamy skin tones & beautiful catchlights coupled with that natural glow. So how do you achieve great results using only natural light and how do you overcome the shortfalls & limitations of low light? Learn these photography basics & creative photography …
Helping Photographers Succeed
just hired an office assistant and now finally I think I’ll get my life back! In the mayhem of life itself, motherhood, wifehood & all that it contains along with trying to establish a business, I was beginning to pull my hair out trying to keep everything together. I realised the need for some assistance …
Depth of Field Explained
Been struggling to understand depth of field or sometimes abbreviated to DOF. This helpful post might just turn on lightbulb. Depth of field is the range of distance within the subject that is acceptably sharp. The depth of field varies depending on camera type, aperture and focusing distance, although print size and viewing distance can …
Focus On What Matters
Dear Internet friends, please don’t be mistaken for believing that I’ve left you all alone out in the cold cold chasm of web cyberspace .. oh contraire! I’ve been hard at work setting up my business, learning my craft and discovering the world around me in new and exciting creative ways of which in …
Creating WOW silhouettes
. Creating silhouettes seems to be wildly popular on our site and I came across another good tutorial that will help you get great results at … http://thepioneerwoman.com/photography/2008/07/how-i-shoot-silhouettes/ Take a look and don’t forget to come back and show us results. Here’s to your creative success …
Video: Create Beautiful Portraits With Just One Light
Here’s a neat video I discovered recentely which I found very helpful and thought it would be good to share with you all. Jim Talkington: “In this video we’ll look at three fundamental styles of portrait lighting. Whether you’re using a studio strobe or a Strobist setup, this is a great intro to portrait lighting …
Tips for Zooming In
You can’t help but get intrigued by the thought of photographing the world up close—super close in fact. Fortunately nearly every digital camera includes a “macro” mode that allows you to get extremely close to your subject. Some cameras call this mode “close-up” and it is depicted by a flower icon on your camera. Depending …
Tackling the “rules” of portrait photography
I recently found this very useful piece in a forum discussion that I thought I’d share… As I learned more and more about portrait photography i started to get overwhelmed. There are so many rules of thumb and hard and fast rules and compositional rules and focusing rules and goodness, RULES on what makes a …














