White Balance 101 – How to Get It Right
There are a lot of factors that you need to consider if you want to be a good photographer. One of these factors is white balance; something that not all photographers are all familiar with…
40 Stunning Examples of Long Exposure Photographs
There is something magical about long exposure photography – allowing your camera to capture light and details for a longer period of time can create some stunning photographs. From traffic lights and light painting to…
Five Great Tutorials for Using Surrealism in Your Photographs
It’s difficult to define and give boundaries to what exactly makes a piece of artwork or photograph surreal, but it’s a quality that’s immediately obvious when you see it. Logical paradoxes, dreamy contradictions, strange creatures…
7 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started My Photography Career
When I started my business, I was lucky enough to have a lot of support in various corners. But, inevitably, there were areas where I made mistakes! Of course, there’s the old adage that we…
Are Expensive Lenses Worth It? My Experience With The Zeiss “Otus” 55mm f/1.4
Recently, I got my hands on a Zeiss Otus 55mm prime lens. It’s a relatively new lens from a company that’s known for creating astonishingly good products – one that was designed, produced, and priced…
The Secrets of Home Studio Lighting
The birth of practical photography, generally accepted to be 1839 when Louis Daguerre developed the daguerreotype, forever changed the way we look at the world. Ever since those early days of capturing a moment in…
The Top 5 Places in the World for Taking Perfect Illuminating Shots
Taking good photos at night is one of the marks of achievement for a photographer who takes his craft seriously. The night skies, in particular, are an interesting subject not only because of the challenge…
How to Capture Spectacular Landscape Photographs
No matter where you are – there are beautiful landscapes just waiting to be captured. You don’t have to travel abroad to create stunning images, you can start in your own local area, or for…
Easy-to-Follow Tips on Extending the Dynamic Range of Your Pictures
Count dynamic range as one of those photography terms that you hear thrown around quite often, but you’ve probably never really understood what it meant. You can look at dynamic range in a couple of…
The Importance of Marketing for Photographers
Some of the most talented photographers in the world are people you’ve never heard of. Now, in a percentage of these cases, it’s because they don’t work in a genre of photography that puts them…
Nikon D810 First Impressions Review
Admittedly, my expectations for the D810 were not initially as high as they were when Nikon released the D800 two years ago. The Nikon D810 is not the groundbreaking DSLR platform that the D800 was…
10 Amazing Things You Can Do With Long Exposure
Star trails, soft streaky clouds, silky smooth water. What do all of these images have in common? If you guessed a long exposure time, you’re right. Long exposure photography is the art of using a…