Tuesday, July 31, 2018
What Is EXIF Data – How to Find It, Use It or Remove It
Every time you capture a shot digitally, the image stores all sorts of data. There is the data that creates the photograph, but there is also extra information in the form of EXIF data. The Exchangeable Image File Format data is the precise information about your image. In the olden...
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7 Lightroom Tips for Concert Photography Editing
Here are my concert photography editing tips and workflow when post-processing in Adobe Lightroom’s Develop Module. I liken post-processing images in photography to cooking. We all prefer to season our food to appeal to our differing tastes. So there is no “best way” to post-process live concert photos, or any...
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How to Make It As a Successful Photographer
The introduction of digital cameras and camera phones has created a huge shift in the photographic industry. Photography was once considered a highly technical field that required specialized training and knowledge. This is still true, but there is a misconception that photography is easy now, and anyone can do it....
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Monday, July 30, 2018
One Light Pet Photography Portraits
Indoor pet photography can produce very unique photographs. Although most photographers instantly run outdoors to photograph animals, there are many benefits to photographing pets inside. Indoor pet photography allows you to have a calmer environment, a safer space for the pet, and also to control the lighting. You don’t need...
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Avoid These 6 Beginner’s Mistakes in Portrait Photography Editing
Portraits are the perfect genre of photography to experiment with in terms of editing style and workflow. You could go classic, high contrast, muted tones, dark and moody, bright and white… portrait photography editing possibilities are endless! Especially early on in your professional portrait photography journey, there will be a...
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What Is Vignetting? Types, Tips and How to Get Rid of It
Vignetting is one of those things we either love or hate. It occurs in four different ways, not counting the purposeful vignetting you can add during the post-editing stage. Basically, it is a decrease in the brightness, found around the edges of a photograph. In some areas of design, vignetting...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018
How to Create Awesome Food Art Photos With Typography Part II
Part one of this article showed you impressive and creative food typography ideas to make your portfolio or food blog really stand out. Now it’s time to show you how to recreate this sweet shot with sugar and tea step-by-step. For this food art typography tutorial, we’re going to use a...
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25 Most Famous Photographers
When starting out as a photographer, you may find yourself in a creative rut. A lack of ideas, or rather, an abundance of ideas can make it difficult to find a photographic theme. This is where the masters of photography can help you. We’ve put together a list of some...
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Saturday, July 28, 2018
How to Create Awesome Food Art Photos With Typography Part I
The best thing about food is that it’s not only delicious but also inspiring! Look at all these mouth-watering colours and textures and tell me this isn’t food art. Even more so when you can combine the alchemy of cooking with the subtle art of curves, serifs and loops. Of...
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10 Reasons to Turn to Film Photography Instead of Digital
Just like punk, film photography is not dead. Far from it. The world is becoming more and more digital, yet this makes people want to stay true to their analog tastes. Vinyl still sells more than mp3s, and cash still exists. The analog photography world is still thriving and will...
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Friday, July 27, 2018
Tipping for Photos: Should You Do It?
I still remember the first time I photographed somebody while traveling and was presented with an open, waiting hand. Truth be told, I was a little offended. I was young, new to photography, and on my first solo travel experience. It was a time when I was working in Africa...
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10 Creative Ideas for Tilt Shift Photography
Tilt-shift photography was originally adorned by large format cameras. It was a way to end parallax error or perspective distortion. Nowadays, you can buy a tilt-shift lens for your DSLR, where people use it for more creative purposes. You may not own one of these tilt-shift lenses, but I am...
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Thursday, July 26, 2018
How to Focus for Better Food Photography
When it comes to food photography tips, there is no right or wrong focus mode. Both manual or auto focus can produce great results in most circumstances. However, there are times when using manual focus is better, and vice versa. Let’s look at some focusing options, when and where to...
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How To Photograph Jewelry: A Quick Guide
From Cartier’s beautiful editorials to K Jeweler’s aesthetically pleasing commercials, the market for photographing stunning necklaces and rings is growing by the day. Jewelry photography can be a fun, rewarding, and profitable endeavor. Here’s our quick jewelry photography guide so you can start capturing those great shots today. Before we...
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What Is Long Exposure Photography and How to Get Started
Have you ever seen landscape images where the water looks soft, silky and smooth? Or perhaps an image showing lines of light traversing through a city scene? If you have, then you’ve seen long exposure photography. This type of photograph is easy to create and doesn’t need heavy manipulation. This...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Pet Photography Cheat Sheet: Easy Tips to Follow
Everyone needs a good pet photography cheat Sheet. Photo shoots can be stressful, overwhelming, anxiety-inducing, and a whole lot of fun. Even if you do them every single day for thirty years, it can still be easy to forget something important. To help you out, we have devised a photography...
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What Is Urban Exploration?
Urban exploration is the act of entering, experiencing and photographing abandoned buildings or areas. Fenced off areas, otherwise inaccessible to the general public are great under the right conditions. Many of these places are dangerous due to a lack of maintenance over a long period of time. Councils, governments and...
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How to Create Cool Glitch Art Photos
Glitch art, or the practice of intentionally corrupting analog or digital data to create unusual visual effects, has been around for decades. However, it’s been gaining a lot of traction in the last few years thanks to better access to digital technology. These days, it’s not surprising to encounter variations of...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018
4 Simple Techniques For Editing Infrared Photography In Lightroom and Photoshop
Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere, and with it tons of strong infrared light. What better period to experiment with some infrared photography? What Is Infrared Photography We are used to seeing the world in colours. But there is more to colours than the so called visible light spectrum...
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12 Composition Tips for Family Portraits
Composition for family portraits might look like a bunch of rules at first, but don’t get overwhelmed. With a bit of practice it will start to be fun in no time. To help you start on this subject, I am sharing with you my favourite composition tips and family picture...
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Monday, July 23, 2018
How to Optimise Your Travel Photography Editing Workflow
Every time I come back from a travel photography trip I am amazed by just how many photos I’ve amassed in a few short days. Photos that I now have to edit. This is why this article is all about travel photo editing tips to optimise your travel photography editing...
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How to Create the Droste Effect for Interesting Photos
The Droste Effect is an interesting and creative way to show a scene photographically. It is known as a mise en abyme. This is a formal technique of placing a copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence. A Dutch brand of...
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How to Choose the Best Background for Your Portrait Photography
Portrait backgrounds are available everywhere, but not all of them will make your portrait photography stand out as much as they deserve. To solve this problem, you need to familiarise yourself with various backdrops. You also need to understand your own creative style, as this will strongly influence the photography...
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30 Creative Photography Projects for 30 Days
We all have our passions in photography. Some of us choose landscapes to escape the hustle and bustle of the city. Others choose portraits to capture the many expressions on the faces of everyday people. At some point, we all want to break free from our usual photography and try...
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Sunday, July 22, 2018
How to Photograph Soap Bubbles in 9 Easy Steps
Soap bubbles aren’t just fun to play with, but they’re also quite visually engaging. If you’ve always wanted to photograph their soapy psychedelic swirls, we’ll show you how to achieve awesome bubble photography in this article. Don’t worry, taking pictures of bubbles is surprisingly easy. And since you get to...
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How to Create Cool Multiplicity Photography With Photoshop
You’ve probably seen multiplicity photography before, maybe presented as a funny story-telling composite or in a fine art photograph. I like to disrupt the usual presentation style of exhibitions and photo essays by incorporating multiplicity photographs. It’s a fun and creative way to mix things up (and entertain your kids...
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Saturday, July 21, 2018
How to Shoot Fantastic Light Trails
At night, the city lights up in a display of colours. It’s the perfect time to get out there with your camera and photograph some light trails. Light trails are one of the best ways to add a wow factor to your urban night photography. Traffic and car light trails...
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How to Create Amazing Day to Night Photography
Some of us are daytime photographers, others do night photography, and the rest just dabble across both. But what if you didn’t have to choose? What if we told you there was a way you can create a single image that will show day to night photography together? You would...
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Friday, July 20, 2018
How To Create Awesome Composite Photography: Photoshop Projects
Combining photographs in Photoshop (aka Photoshop compositing) is a great skill to have up your sleeve. Composite Photography adds a whole new dimension to your storytelling, and can produce a punchy impact. The reasons people composite images and use Photoshop are diverse. Perhaps you’re creating a surreal art project, showing...
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Posing People in Photographs
Posing people for powerful portrait photography is tricky, especially when you want that natural look. If you have photographed people before, you will know that some tend to lock up when a camera is pointed at them. They become stiff, their expressions change and they are unsure where to look....
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
Two Ways to Transfer a Printed Photograph to Wood
Sometimes, taking photographs is only half the fun. Learning how to transfer photos to wood is a unique and relatively simple way to display your photographs. There are several ways to transfer photos to wood. Depending on the look that you are after, some methods deliver a more ‘distressed’ look...
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How To Create This Cool Chain Link/Fence Cut Out Photography Idea in Photoshop
One creative photo idea that you can have a lot of fun with is called cut out photography. Simply put, it’s a blend of two photographs that cuts out certain pieces to create a puzzle effect. As intimidating as the result may look, it’s not that difficult to create. Oftentimes,...
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How to Create Magical Still Lifes With Smoke Photography
Smoke is a malleable and interesting object to work with. It looks cryptic, mystical and a bit creepy. Using smoke in still life photography is a wonderful and easy way to create a mysterious and enigmatic atmosphere. Here’s a quick tutorial on smoke photography. Sure, you can always add smoke...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Adweek Webinar: Video Storytelling The Impact of Motion
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Digital Photography vs. Film Photography
There is an age-old argument between photographers – film vs digital. Some swear by film photography and the rest only use digital cameras. There are only a few who work with both. Since the dawn of technology brought us digital sensors, film photographers have been swapping their old systems for...
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How to Use Motion Blur in Time-Lapse Photography
What Is Motion Blur? Every photo, or the individual frames of a video, are just samples in the continuous flow of time. Whether it’s an electronic shutter or a mechanical one, video or stills camera, the sensor is exposed for a pre-determined time to the image formed by the lens....
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The Lowdown on Photography Insurance – Protect Yourself and Your Equipment
The risks photography businesses face can be significant. So are the costs associated with these risks. Whether you’re a serious hobbyist photographer or a seasoned pro, insurance is a must. At the very least, insurance will help you replace a cracked lens. It will also protect you from potential lawsuits...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
5 Best Tripods for Wedding Photography
Wedding photography gear must capture a range of different types of shots, from the fast motion of a nervous flower girl rushing down the aisle, to the landscape-inspired shots of the wedding venue. A tripod is a useful tool for capturing the different moments of a wedding day. Do all wedding...
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Street Photography – Know Your Rights
Street photography is a tricky game. It’s difficult enough trying to capture candid scenes with interesting backgrounds. But you also need to think about street photography laws, ethics and rights. Every nation has a different idea of what is allowed and what isn’t. Not to mention that in the United...
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Forced Perspective Photography: 10 Tips
If you’ve seen photos of people holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, then you’ve seen forced perspective photography. This popular photography technique is commonly used to make an object look smaller, larger, farther or closer than it is in real life. Thankfully, this optical illusion is quite easy to execute,...
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Monday, July 16, 2018
10 Tips for Styling Product Photography
Photos are the first things customers see when browsing online. They make assumptions about a business based on the photography. The trustworthiness of a brand and the perceived value of its products is often determined by its visual style. Here are ten product photography tips that will help you bring...
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10 Tips For Beautiful Maternity Photography Poses
It doesn’t matter if you photograph your maternity clients indoors or outdoors, there are some foolproof poses that can help you to add variety to the session, focus on the bump, and make long lasting memories for your clients. Posing can also mean the difference between an okay photo and...
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What Is Perspective in Photography and How Should You Use It
Perspective in photography is something that has always confused me. On one hand, it looks at how you show a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional plane. On the other, it looks at where you place yourself when capturing a scene. We will be looking at perspective from many different angles...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018
How To Correct White Balance in Photoshop
Getting the right colour cast in your images can be challenging. All light gives off a different colour temperature, depending on whether the source is natural, or from indoor lighting. Your sensor picks up this emitted light, adding a colour cast to your image. Today, we are going to show...
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Find a Fixer: Using a Local to Improve Your Travel Photography
The thing that excites most of us about travel is that everything is new and different. Different landscapes, different cultures, different languages, different faces. They provide a dramatic change from the daily same-same in our everyday lives. Of course, those differences can also be some of the biggest challenges of...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
How to Create a Black Background For Photography
Did you know that the most important thing to create a black background for photography is not a black cloth, wall or backdrop? Creating black backgrounds for your photographs is about the light. Not so much about the colour of the background. You need to have significantly less light on...
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How To Make an Image Black and White in Photoshop & Lightroom
When photographing a scene, you may feel that it may look better in black and white. Colours can be difficult to correct, especially when we are using two or more light sources. As all light emits a different colour temperature, a black and white image is more pleasing to the...
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Photography 101: Master the Sunny-16 Rule and Other Exposure Settings
In this Photography 101 article, you will get to know more about the famous Sunny-16 Rule. This is an empirical rule that was invented to guesstimate which camera settings to use for a balanced exposure when shooting outdoors during sunny days. Sunny-16 Rule in the Digital Era The Sunny-16 rule...
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Friday, July 13, 2018
Getting Started With Live Music Photography: 7 Quick Tips
Live music photography is one of the most exhilarating and exciting genres of photography out there. It’s also one of the, if not THE, most challenging in my opinion. Concert photography comes with low-light situations, quick movement, unpredictability, and limited shooting time. These elements make getting quality images tough, but...
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Water Splash Photography: How to Play With Your Food for Creative Photos
Ever tried to freeze motion in your photography? Or tried water splash photography in the summer? If not, this is the article for you. And if you have, this is still the article for you as we’ll show you how to have fun photographing water splashes. We are going to...
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Photography Types | From Abstract to Wildlife
We are constantly bombarded with visual imagery, from every angle, all the time. They are on your social media platforms, on any website you visit, any TV channel you turn over to. They are even in our newspapers and magazines. Walking through the streets you’ll notice photographs are always in...
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
How to Digitize Film Photos
So, you have exposed your roll of film to light, and now it is time to see the images. There are two ways to go about this. You can use your roll of film to create a negative, which you can use in a darkroom to create prints using an...
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10 Tips for Wedding Photo Editing in Lightroom
Photographing a wedding feels like a marathon event. But that stamina-driven creative process doesn’t stop with the last dance. Once you’ve covered the getting ready, the ceremony, the formal portraits and the reception, you’re left looking at a folder of digital photos that probably numbers well into three digits and...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
12 Photography Lighting Facts You Should Know
Lighting a scene or subject can be tricky. Portraits, landscapes and macro photography scenes all need a workable lighting set-up. So just how do you get the mood and feeling from a scene or subject across to the viewers? We created a list of 12 photography lighting facts to help you...
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How Do Aspect Ratios Affect Your Photographs?
1. What Is an Aspect Ratio? In layman’s terms, the aspect ratio of an image is simply the proportional difference between width and height. The most popular aspect ratio is 3:2. This is the aspect ratio of 35mm film cameras and has been around for a long time. It became...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018
10 Tips For Better Indoor Photography – From Lighting to Settings
When I first started shooting indoor photography, I was intimidated by the limitations of buildings. As a natural light enthusiast, I wanted to have as few restrictions as possible. When I discovered the positive sides of this genre, however, I was able to pinpoint my creative weaknesses and strengthen the...
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How to Get Ahead With Commercial Photography
Commercial photography is one of the most high-energy, profitable, and exciting photographic niches. Most of the world’s best known photographers work in the commercial world. As much as this facet of the industry is enticing, it is also the most competitive type of photography. Everyone wants to break in and...
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10 Seriously Cool Camera Bags (Updated 2018)
A mirrorless or DSLR camera bag is a necessity. This is the place you will store your camera equipment, primarily a camera, a few lenses and also the bits and bobs that are also necessary. We’ve chosen these bags for their cool and stylish design, making sure you don’t stick...
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Monday, July 9, 2018
What Is Commercial Photography? Quick Tips to Get Started
Most of us hear the term “commercial photography” and think of large teams creating images in a studio for big ad campaigns. But commercial photography can actually include a wide range of photography niches. We can define commercial photography as the creation of photos that will be used for commercial...
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10 Stylish Camera Bags for Women (Updated 2018)
As you may well know, I’ve already written a post called 10 Seriously Cool Camera Bags, and although it went down a treat, I caught a little flak from people saying that it was too focused towards men. They were right, it was. I was blind to the style benefits of camera...
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12 Tips to Help You Improve Your Nature Photography Skills
Nature photography is a unique discipline within our hobby. It’s kind of a hybrid between a slow, more stationary situation like shooting landscapes, and melding it with a more dynamic and interactive process like shooting portraiture. This is because the gamut of nature photography covers shooting flora and fauna (plants,...
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Sunday, July 8, 2018
What’s In a Pet Photographer’s Bag
All of us photographers have our usual go-to kit that we carry with us to all of our photo shoots. From peering into the camera bag, we can learn a lot about how our fellow photographers do things. With pet shoots in particular, I say you should always stick to...
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Dark Food Photography: What It Is and Why You Should Try It Too
Trends come and go in the world of food photography, but in the last few years moody and dark photography has become a “thing” and it shows no sign of dying out. This style is sometimes referred to as Mystic Light, or Chiaroscuro. The latter is an Italian term borrowed...
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When to Use a Wide Angle Lens
One of the most asked questions in regards to photography is ‘What is the purpose of different camera lenses? Our answer is going to look quickly at the different types of lenses available, and when to use them. Primarily, our answer will specifically look at when you would use a...
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Saturday, July 7, 2018
12 Dos and Don’ts of Family Portrait Photography
Family portraits are not just images. They are memories that will remain with us for a long time. With this in mind, a family photoshoot is a big responsibility for a photographer and can lead to some stressful situations. However, when you know certain tricks, a family photoshoot becomes fun...
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Which Lens Do I Need? From Fisheye to Super Telephoto
There are quite a few different types of lenses, and our article here will guide you through all of them, looking at why and when you would use them. Before we get into the realm of lens types, we first need to look at the difference between prime and zoom lenses...
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10 Macro Photography Ideas You Can Try Today (Without Leaving the House!)
Macro photography shows us details on a scale that is not visible to the naked human eye. But knowing what works best for macro photography can be tricky. This is why, I’ll show you 10 simple macro photography ideas you can create without even leaving your house. But first. What Is...
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Friday, July 6, 2018
15 Tips for Breathtaking Cityscape Photography
New York, London, Paris… think of any famous cities around the world and their iconic cityscapes will immediately come to mind. It’s no wonder that cityscape photography is one of the most popular types of photos to capture. The good news is that capturing beautiful cityscape pictures isn’t that difficult....
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10 Tips For Taking Beautiful Pictures of Horses
Unlike other pet photography, horses require a different approach when photographed. Here are our ten tips for horse photography! Horses are known as some of the most beautiful animals in the world. From their majestic movements to graceful presence, horses have been seen through the entirety of human history as...
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Image Resolution: What Is a Megapixel and How Many Do You Really Need?
One thing that pops up all the time in photography is the word megapixel. We all know exactly what it is, and at the same time, not at all. We may know how many megapixels our cameras are to the decimal place, and shout it proudly. Yet, when it comes...
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
How To Use The 500 Rule To Capture Better Night Sky Photography
When photographing a starry night with a fixed tripod, use the 500 Rule to guesstimate the slowest possible shutter speed to avoid star trails. The rule is part of a larger family of empirical rules that have been developed, mostly in the days of film photography. These help photographers quickly setup their...
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Your First Prime Lens: The Nifty Fifty
No doubt you have heard the term ‘Nifty Fifty’ in your photographic circles or researching about your next lens. I’m here to tell you the Nifty Fifty lens is an essential part of your camera gear, and why you would be lost without it. To get the best out of...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018
How to Shoot Dark and Moody Floral Photography
Although, we usually associate flower photography with lighter colours and warmer months, a recent trend towards dark and moody florals in photography, wallpaper, and other decorative items has really taken off. This look has a special and distinctive appeal. Flowers are so fun to photograph because they are naturally beautiful...
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What Is the Lead Room Principle in Photography?
The lead room principle in photography is a simple, but essential part of compositional technique. Portraiture, fashion, boudoir, event, and wedding photography – all use it. It can sometimes be referred to as ‘leading’, ‘nose room’ or ‘leading space’. At its most basic, the lead room principle means that when framing...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Boudoir Photography Checklist: Seven Things to Bring to Your First Boudoir Shoot
A boudoir shoot can be fun and exciting for both the photographer and the client. However if it is your first time it can also be daunting and nerve-wracking. Having a boudoir photography checklist prior to your shoot, whether you are the client or the photographer, will help ease your...
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Compositional Weight Concept – Rules of Photography
As keen photographers, we are always looking for the best compositions and balance in our photography. These are important photography rules for composing your images well and creating something visually stunning. Weight or balance are the terms given to compositional elements within your scene, and the visual impact they have....
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Monday, July 2, 2018
15 Awesome Wedding Photo Booth Ideas
Wedding photo booths are part and parcel of a great atmosphere. They help to create stunning images in an effortless way. They are even a fun and interesting way to record the guests and their wishes to the happy couple. And they break the ice and provide many laughs throughout...
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10 Tips for Using Luminosity Masks in Digital Blending
In post processing, especially exposure blending, luminosity masks play an important role to blend an image smoothly. In the old days, you may have tried to use HDR software to blend different exposures into a single image. Most of them are good software and you can create beautifully blended images....
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10 Photography Tips That Will Improve Your Environmental Portraits
Environmental portrait photography has nothing to do with climate change or the amount of plastic waste being dumped into the ocean. It is different than environmental photography or environmentalist pictures. What Is an Environmental Portrait? Environmental portrait photography is making an illustration of a person in their environment. It’s a...
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Sunday, July 1, 2018
Adding a Sense of Scale to Your Landscape Photography
Have you ever photographed something majestic and grand but your picture just didn’t do it justice? This misunderstanding could happen because it’s not apparent how big or small the things really are in your photo. In other words, you need to improve your scale photography skills. Scale in photography is...
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Photography Terms You NEED to Know
Some photography terms will make you scratch your head in confusion. You’ve either come across them when hearing other photographers talk about their work, or simply browsing your camera manual. Or while reading this website! We figured it’s our job shed some light on all the confusion. So let’s look...
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