Capturing the Local Flavor Through Food Photography
Food photography is not as easy as it looks. It’s more than just making food look pretty. Food photography is all about sending a message; the message that the food on the table wants to…
Photography Mistakes We’ve All Made (but would rather not admit to!)
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…
5 Amazing Things You Can Do With Panning
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 and Why It’s Amazing for Business
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…
Understanding Back-Button Focussing
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…
Photographing Corporate Events 101: Here’s What You Need to Know
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…
Video Tutorial: Handling Hotspots in Lightroom and Photoshop
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…
5 Ways to Capture Better Travel Photos
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 –…
Using The HSL Panel in Adobe Lightroom For More Creative Control – Video
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…
How To Shoot Stunning & Stylish Monochrome Photos
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,…
What You Need To Know About Shooting Corporate Headshot Photos
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…
How To Effectively Use Backlighting In The Studio
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…