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There are many tips online. Five step listicles of composition, post-processing, editing, getting the model to smile more, and to capture a story in the best way possible. You can be friendlier to clients, communicate your vision to the team, client or model, use on or off camera flash, and setup your camera in a better way to enable easier ways to capture the shot. You can learn about better workflows and how to increase your productivity in post too. All these tools are available... READ MORE

You gotta join us live for our next Google+ Hangout, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech.…This Post Sponsored By:Perfectly Clear for Photoshop or Lightroom is all about saving you time so you can focus on doing what you love best. Get a free trial of the award... READ MORE

Take a Time Out with Tanya, art director & graphic designer turned commercial photographer who really just wants a break from her three kids. Sign up for her weekly email here so you’ll never miss a Time Out.Last week in my article No Studio? No Problem: How to Create Stunning Head Shots in Any Location, I promised to follow up with some specific examples, including behind-the-scenes shots and lighting diagrams. Without further ado, here are 5 simple lighting setup for portraits on-location, perfect for beginning photographers and... READ MORE

I was delighted this week to see that one of my photographs from a recent wedding was selected as an ‘award winner’ in the ‘All About the Light’ category ISPWP’s quarterly competition. Even more so that the founder, Joe Milton, had selected it as his ‘photo of the day’ yesterday! Here is how I made this image. Credit for the method I used really has to go to the awesome Erin & Ben Chrisman of Chrisman Studios in Charleston, USA. I joined them on their... READ MORE

Nikon and Canon cameras have a button on the camera body to enable a bracketing mode. Sony cameras don’t…I’d buried under the shooting mode menu. Once you know what you’re looking for and configure your settings, it’s very easy to switch in and out of bracketing mode. Let’s go through the settings and get set…This Post Sponsored By:Perfectly Clear for Photoshop or Lightroom is all about saving you time so you can focus on doing what you love best. Get a free trial of the award... READ MORE

Ezequiel CabreraWhether you are into nature photography, architecture, art, people, places or sports, this world has a special gem somewhere waiting for you to capture it on film. There are some locations in this world filled with beauty, magic, drama and amazing landmarks. In truth, there are hundreds of places on Earth that give quite a performance in front of the camera and each photography artist probably already polished his own “photography bucket list.” If you think you saw them all or if you are... READ MORE

Seems like the more I listen, the more I hear people talking about the gear, the business of photography, the widgets. Let us not forget the simple love of photography. I understand why there’s so much rhetoric in our industry about the business of photography and the gear and the gadgets. There is the common stereotype that most creative people aren’t good business people. There is fear. Gear is easier to talk about than vision. Exposures are exact, the camera dials have numbers. There is... READ MORE

So you just received the gear needed to turn your hot shoe flash into a mini portable studio lighting system. What do you with the box of stuff the UPS guy just dropped onto your dorstep? Where do you start?That is exactly the gap we explore whenever I teach a beginner's lighting class. So today we are going to walk through a "first steps" exercise. Read more »... READ MORE

A Look Inside Ansel Adams’ Darkroom Magic https://youtu.be/IoCtni-WWVs It’s hard to imagine a world without Photoshop or Lightroom. But there was a time. Instead of a computer mouse, iconic photographer Ansel Adams used a microwave and cardboard cut-outs to create his masterpieces. We kid you not. In “Advancing Your Photography Show’s” latest video, “An Inside…... READ MORE

The winners of the 2016 Urban photography awards have been posted. The selections in street, nature, sports, projects and portfolios all contain elements that surely make them award winning images. I served as a judge for the competition; and below what you'll find are images from the winners.... READ MORE

If you want to take your wildlife photography to the next level, then you need to look at capturing the character and personality of an animal. This makes for a much more appealing image, rather than simply a bird on a stick. A photo always needs to tell a story, but I think many photographers don’t realize that this applies to wildlife photography too.Even though we can’t directly relate to most wild animals, it is still possible to document a story through a single image, or... READ MORE

"Certain aesthetics appeal to me when I shoot at night. It's a lot about the mystery of long exposures." Mikko Lagerstedt, a Finland-based night photographer, tells the Phoblographer. Lagerstedt's series Invisible by Day focuses on some of the beauty of this world that is unseen during the daylight hours. "When you photograph at night, you can capture a particular atmosphere to your photos. At night, everything looks different, and it inspires me to capture unique looking landscapes."... READ MORE