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Ann Davlin is a young inspired editor of Design Web Kit Blog. She takes a rose-colored view of all the things around and will be glad to share her world-view with you. Find her on Google+.

Marketing Ideas for Photographers on How to Grow Your Business

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 :).

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Photo Hunting in a Zoo: That’s Easy and Absolutely Legal

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.

Some tips on how to take animals photography in a zoo
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.

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Photography With Bad Weather – Challenge Accepted!

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.

Bad weather is the best one for taking good landscape photos

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.

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Tony Sweet – The Man of Thousand Talents And One Fantastic Photographer [Interview]

Today we’re going to talk to a photographer whose creativity and capacity for work astonishes at first sight. So, please welcome Tony Sweet. He’s a many-sided personality who has achieved success in various spheres of life (that includes music, lectureship, photography, authoring). He’s one of these great guys that you would call a self-made man. And this experience is reflected in his photos.

Tony Sweet - The Man of Thousand Talents And One Fantastic Photographer

Tony is known as American nature photographer who likes travelling and finding new camera-catchy landscapes. His portfolio is filled with amazing pictures from locations in Iceland, Cuba and USA among others. His photographer’s eye captures things that ordinary people are more likely to miss.

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11 Photography Rules You Should Start Breaking

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).

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Bride’s Prayer – Things Wedding Photographers Shouldn’t Forget About

You think you’re a super professional photographer with a minute-by-minute plan of your work? That’s great! Probably, you’re a god of wedding photography and couples in love should be super happy to be your customers.

But, you know, it happens that people keep silence about some aspects of your cooperation. And you’ll never know that there’s something wrong in your relationships until some honest bride or groom put you up to some moments.

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When Less is Really More: Minimalism in Photography [70+ Examples]

Who does understand minimalism as a form of art? I guess, quite less people than those who like it. Have you ever noticed that you like a photo, music, video or any other artwork, but you can’t explain why it is so attractive for you?

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It excites your mind and you can’t take your eyes off of it. Minimalist photography is this kind of things.

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The Latest Photography Trends to Defeat Your Competitors

Several years ago articles about photography trends were interesting only for professional photographers who do their business on pictures. Upcoming trends influence the photography world greatly, so photographers have to be abreast of what people will be looking for in the nearest future. It would be also good to have some time to think of these photography trends and to create something similar but new.

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Times have changed. And now every self-respecting creative thinker has a powerful DSLR camera and is interested in photography news. This art is no longer a thing for a limited number of selected people – it’s a popular hobby of millions of skillful ones.

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26 Instagram Apps To View and Enjoy Your Photos Like a Pro

Nowadays Instagram is too popular not to be recognized by millions of people from all over the world. iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users go mad over supplemental apps for this service. And they are right! Because the idea of taking photos, editing and sharing them via social networks is so incredible and alluring that you can’t stay aside. Several years ago (up to 10, I guess) your cellphone was just a phone and now it’s a phone, a camera, a media player and a computer – all in one small device. That’s fantastic! So you should be ready to go with the times and track the latest trends of IT world.

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Are you ready to go? We’ve gathered 26 popular apps for Instagram which will help you to make your photos even better. All of the apps are distributed via the Apple Store for free or for a low fee. Also here you’ll find some awesome websites which will enrich your Instagram collection with new functionality and almost unlimited opportunities.

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Interview with Geoff Powell: “I’m an Artist, Photographer, Birder & Creative Thinker”

Today we want you to meet Geoff Powell – a fine art photographer who runs workshops in France and the UK along with online courses. He’s a successful painter, a photographer, a blogger, a businessman and a happy father. Geoff’s day has more than 24 hours and he’s very happy with it.

In this interview we tried to show you real Geoff Powell – the person who stands behind all those beautiful wildlife photos you’ve probably seen earlier. So enjoy the conversation and a roundup of photos taken by this cheerful fine art photographer!

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