For a couple embarking upon their numerous wedding plans, excitement and curiosity filled with budget considerations will drive question upon question for their potential photographer.
Photographers who know the wedding circuit already, will notice that the same questions will be repeated by most clients.
… Continue reading The Importance of Communication in Wedding Photography
There are a lot of photographers out there selling photos, which are well … rubbish.
And there are many people out there who regard photography as an unpaid hobby, and yet produce shots which could be sold.
How do you know if your photography is suitable for the commercial world?
It’s not an easy question to answer, and I don’t claim to have an outright answer for you. I don’t think anyone does.
… Continue reading Are Your Photos “Good Enough” For You To Be A Professional Photographer?
Do you know how to grow your photography business? If you take good shots it doesn’t mean you’ll gain success and popularity among customers. You need to know how to sell yourself well! But until you are not a star of the photography world you don’t need any professional and high paying marketers to teach you.
Everything is quite simple and you can do it yourself. Listen to me and I’ll tell you what to do to become a popular photographer. Well, I’m not a world-known photographer, but it doesn’t mean I don’t know how to become one :).
… Continue reading Marketing Ideas for Photographers on How to Grow Your Business
Autumn is a perfect time for taking pictures. And when it comes to celebrations, it becomes twice as attractive for photographers, because there are so many things worth our attention – the joyful people, the traditions, and the beauty of nature.
All this we can find in Halloween celebrations – a cocktail of inspiration for making creative photos!
… Continue reading A Few Tips on Getting Awesome Halloween Photos
Animals photography is one of the most simple kinds of photography (at least beginner photographers think that there’s nothing but waiting and flicking). You don’t need to ask models to turn their heads to the right, to explain them how to strike poses for the camera. Animals don’t care about you – they just lay, jump and stare. That’s a huge advantage of animal photography over shooting in studios when you get models involved in the work.
Photo by Scott Denny
Not so many photographers have a chance to go out of town and shoot animals in the wild other than field mice and crows.
… Continue reading Photo Hunting in a Zoo: That’s Easy and Absolutely Legal
If you have a photo camera (DSLR or a film one) then you’ve definitely took photos outdoors at least once, twice or even regularly. When capturing landscape photography or portraits you could notice that weather and lighting do matter greatly. You can take photos of the same object with a few minutes time interval and get different results.
And you know what’s the reason? Lightning! When you work in studios you are the master of lighting: you can move light poles and experiment with shadows at your liking. But when you are on the open space you can do nothing, but catch natural lighting without thinking whether it is good or bad. In fact, it is always good. It’s said that bad weather is a myth, there are only bad clothes. By the way, it concerns your photography too.
… Continue reading Photography With Bad Weather – Challenge Accepted!
Greetings everybody! As you may have noticed, we now offer to download my new eBook – “Beginner’s Guide to Landscape Photography”.
So, why would you want it? Firstly, because it is 100% free and is still awesome 🙂 Secondly,
… Continue reading 7 Reasons to Get my New eBook “Beginner’s Guide to Landscape Photography”
Appreciation of a portrait photo greatly depends on a viewer himself. If a lady looks at her own photograph, she seeks some imperfections she thinks she’s got, and estimates, how good a photographer is at concealing them. If you are a photographer looking at an image made by other photographer, you will, consciously or subconsciously inspect it for technical quality, sharpness, lighting, etc.
If you are a magazine editor, you will decide whether it fits the format of your project.
And so on and so forth. it does not mean that no one will look at a photo as a whole, in fact, everybody will. But still, certain viewers will be more anxious about certain details.
So, if you want to make a photo everyone will just adore, it must be good in all aspects.
… Continue reading 8 Steps from Snapshots to Artistic Portraits
It is always a pleasure to talk to a person who is a true fan of his occupation. Last week I was lucky enough to speak to Igor Klimov – a still-life (and not only) photographer from Tallinn, Estonia.
His photographs speak for themselves – and if I would need to describe his works with one single word, it would be “quality”.
… Continue reading Interview with Igor Klimov: Still Life Photographer from Tallinn
If you’re going to break photography rules you should firstly learn them, think them over and practice in creating great photography. Otherwise, there is a risk that your photos will look like ones taken by an awkward photographer.
When a creative man starts experimenting, it always means that his mastership is rising high (as long as these experiments are successful).
… Continue reading 11 Photography Rules You Should Start Breaking
