Every pro photographer has made the odd, usually humorous, mistake. Mostly, we tend to keep quiet about it in order to maintain the ‘illusion’ that we know what we’re doing! But, for your amusement, here…
Usually, photography is all about capturing tack sharp photos, preventing camera shake, freezing the action, and getting all the details. Sometimes, though, it pays to be a bit creative, to break out of your comfort…
Starting a photography blog is one of the most ambitious things you can do as a photographer. It’s also a very smart business move that will draw leads to you. Why? Because a photography blog…
Let’s face it, there are some things about our cameras that we simply have trouble understanding. Most of today’s high-end digital camera bodies have buttons and knobs and numbers that can leave you feeling somewhat…
One of the more popular specialties of photographers is corporate event photography. Corporate photography involves taking photos of important company events. It’s a major income-source for many photographers as many companies hold regular events like…
Hotspots are shiny and overexposed areas on a subject that are the result of uneven lighting or a flash bouncing off a light surface. In this Lightroom & Photoshop tutorial video we’ll go through fixing…
There’s something about travel that seems to bring out the best in us. It’s certainly a great motivator. You hit the ground running in a new, exciting land, ready to start capturing amazing images –…
The HLS panel in Lightroom is very powerful and can allow you to take more creative control over your images. It allows you to selectively adjust the Hue, Saturation and Luminance in an image. In…
Monochrome photography – better known as black-and-white photography – is one of the most stylish and classic forms of the medium you’ll ever work with. Though color has today replaced much of black and white,…
The demand for corporate and business headshots is, and always has been, quite high. After all, you only get one chance to make a good first impression, and today that often means a photo on…
When we think of backlighting, we usually associate it with shooting portraits outside directly into the sun, using it as a backlight to create a rim light around your subject. But this is an effect…
The lens is what makes your image shine in many ways. While some photographers insist on bare bones lenses or lenses produced over 30 years ago for a specific look, you probably want something that…