Welcome back!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 …
Photo Sharing on Flickr
Flickr is an online digital photo sharing site, which has become a great place for professional photographers to showcase their work. If you haven’t tried it yet, here’s a step-by-step guide to uploading your digital photos on Flickr. (Note: This describes the basic steps to upload your pictures in Flickr, without using the uploader tools …
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 …
What Can You Learn from Spaghetti?
I recently began reading a facinating & informative book by Bryan Peterson called Learning to See Creatively and decided to do a 365 day challenge to myself implementing the techniques he describes in his book in an effort to become a better photographer and to “see more creatively”. For my first exercise I decided to …
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 …
The New Year – An Exciting Blank Canvas
Welcome to a brand new year!!! … the new year usually brings it’s rounds of new year’s resolutions. Yep! I’ve made my share of NY resolutions and sadly broken many of them too – I’ll bet a million dollars I’m soooo not alone on that one! Anyway, once again I’ve decided on some NY-R’s and …
Which Lens Should I Use?
Arguably the most important weapon in a photographers’ arsenal, lenses are also one of the most variable. From the widest 10mm fish-eye to the longest 800mm telephoto, optics are available in every conceivable size, weight and focal length. Due to the smaller sensors used in many of today’s digital SLRs, however, focal lengths vary 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 …
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Six Quick and Easy Tips For Better Digital Photos
There are some really simple and easy things that you can do to improve your digital photography. Follow these few small things and watch your digital photos come to life. (by Stan Pontiere) 1. Locate your subject off center in your photo. Nothing is more boring than static composition. By having your subject off the …
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