Photography
Tips for photographing strangers
Anyone who ventures into the world with a camera in hand knows that, at some point, they will face the challenge of photographing someone they don’t know. Being photographed, ...
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Photo tip: Almost Perfect
Great photography isn’t always about technical perfection. In fact, some of my favorite images are slightly off. Too dark, too light or even slightly out of focus can be ...
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Photography Tip: How To Create Motion Blur
Breathing life, depth and action into a two-dimensional photograph is one of the primary challenges of being a photographer. The vast majority of images we make don’t quite make ...
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Connecting Through Art + Signature Styling
Connecting with People - By Davis Hilton
Photography is my way of connecting with people. Raw emotion, light, shadow, and human form fascinate me. Permanently freezing little moments that might ...
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Starting a Photography Business
If you want to start a photography business, you have to cover your bases. Complete your business plan, finalize your website, think about incorporating, and save all those tax-deductible receipts to ...
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Food photography tips for your cookbook
Just in time for the holiday food extravaganza, we invited guest blogger Erin Vaughan to give us tips for great food photography.
Whether you consider yourself the next Wolfgang Puck ...
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3 Ways to Get into Instant Photography
Because I walk around with an instant camera much of the time I often get these three questions:
Does it work?
Is that a Polaroid?
Can you still get film?
The ...
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Unconventional Holiday Photos
The holidays are a time of family, friends, fire and celebration, but for the avid photographer the holidays also bring a sense of visual mood unlike any other time ...
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Photography Tip: Digital Asset Management
In the history of my adult life I have read ONE technical manual. You might not even classify Peter Krogh’s The DAM Book as a technical manual but I do. ...
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Photography Tip: One Camera, One Lens
I still prefer film. This reality prompts many questions about why I would prefer something considered outdated by many in my former profession. I prefer film for a variety ...
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Photography Tips: Not Done Yet
Years ago, at the beginning of my career, an older photographer took me aside and said “When you think you have the photo you want, turn around, go back ...
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Photography Tips: Follow your Heart
I wanted to go to Machu Picchu. I really did. But I knew, long before I got there that there was no way I would be able to shoot ...
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Photography Tips: Look for New Vantage Points
So much of what we know as photographers is learned behavior. Shoot with the light over our shoulders. Make sure you can see the subjects face, etc. Well, I ...
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Photography Through the Years
In 1988 I opened a magazine and saw an image by English photographer Larry Burrows. Burrows was considered one of the most important photographers to cover the war in ...
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Photography Tips: Look for Layers with Your Wide Angle Lens
Most modern DSLR camera systems come with a wide angle lens or wide angle zoom lens. At first thought, it’s easy to think that this lens was included simply ...
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Photography Tips: Keep It Simple
I figured it would be best to get the gear situation out of the way right up front. After all, the first thing we do is “grab our gear” ...
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Photography Tips: Get Close
Robert Capa, the famous war photographer once said, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”
When I first began in photography I was handed a bag of ...
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Paris in Winter
I'm going back to Paris, and I'm going back during winter. Roughly ten years ago I traveled there to complete a portion of my project on dogs and graffiti. ...
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iPhone Photography Tips (From a non-user)
Yes, you read that correctly. I'm doing a post about iPhone photography tips. I quit using my phone as a camera two years ago. Is that weird? Am I ...
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Making a great travel book: tips from 4 photographers
What makes a great travel book? It’s not just the location or the camera. A superior travel book is one part photographer’s eye, one part careful curation and editing, ...
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Talking Cuba and Cyanotypes with Photographer Allan Jenkins
Allan Jenkins’ work combines the best of traditional and modern techniques. For example, his Victorian-era cyanotype prints are created from digital negatives and his self-published print books are based ...
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The Marvelous World and Books of Arthur Tress
Arthur Tress has been taking pictures for more than five decades, constantly exploring new ways to express himself visually. From his early work in ethnographical photography, to environmentally-focused documentary ...