A key component of creating a great photograph is visualization. To fully comprehend the process of visualization it is important to understand the four steps visualization for taking photographs. Step 1: Photographic Looking and Seeing Look Deeper. In photography, we…
With the right flash and flash accessories, you can be sure of taking great pictures without irritating shadows or excessive contrast, whether you are shooting indoors or outdoors using fill flash. But don’t forget to read the manual before you…
You can make a big impression with small flashes. In his book Creative Flash Photography, Tilo Gockel uses the following workshop to explain how to create a gobo projection using flash. What is a Gobo Projector? A gobo projector works…
As artists we cannot hope that luck will bring us money and fame. We must be active in the marketing process. Taking control of your own marketing process ensures that specific things will happen because of your actions, your decisions,…
Taking a Beautiful Portrait- Understanding Facial Analysis, Lighting, Angle, and Lens Selection What do we want and what do our clients want? When taking a portrait, the concern is whether a portrait should be an exact, idealized, or factually correct portrayal of…
When photographing birds, you will learn that patience is a virtue. This means keeping your activities in your blind (your hiding place) to a minimum. No loud noises or waving your lens around. Birds aren’t always predictable and it may…
Taken from The Perfect Photo: 71 Tips from the Top, by Elin Rantakrans and Tobias Hagberg A photograph is a reflection of reality, or, to be more exact, a reflection of a part of reality. The composition of a photograph—or…
Always on, always at hand, and inconspicuously deployed, today’s smartphones empower us to record the world in ever newer and more personal ways. By leveraging the photo-editing applications found on the iPhone, professional and amateur photographers alike are able to…
A photo book can fulfill the needs of everyone from the snapshot photographer, to the aspiring amateur, all the way to the professional photographer. The creation of every great photo book begins with a photo shoot. The basic criteria that…
Many would agree that autofocus changed the world of bird photography. Before autofocus, focusing was done manually and the photographer had to rely heavily on his eyesight. This made taking sharp images of birds in close range very difficult, resulting…