With the nuptial season charging on us like a pack of credit card-wielding brides at a wedding dress discount sale, this is also the time for those of you considering a career in photography to start thinking about how you get into the wedding photography business. Of all the specialty branches of photography, the one [...]
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Five Tips For Finding The Perfect Wedding Photographer
Posted by chris on February 3rd, 2012
A wedding photographer friend of mine calls Valentine’s Day by a different name, he calls it Pop The Question Day. After the squeals of delight and frantic phone calls to girlfriends subside the soon to be brides will be breaking out the checkbooks and getting down to the business of booking wedding venues, reception halls, [...]
Three Critical Elements In Great Photography
Posted by chris on February 1st, 2012
Let me admit right up front that limiting the critical elements of photography to just three is a little arbitrary. There are many critical elements that go into great photography, but what I’m trying to do is bring attention to important elements that are frequently overlooked. Too many people waste a fantastic amount of time [...]
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No Comments »Three Alternatives To Lightroom
Posted by chris on January 30th, 2012
Ever since Adobe niggled customers by limiting CS6 upgrades to CS5 and CS5.5 users have been in a such froth that Adobe finally backed off and added CS3 and CS4 to the upgrade path. Further proof that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. While it may not have been serious enough to get people scrambling [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: editing tools, exposure tools, image processing, Photo Editing, photo tool 1 Comment »Five Secrets of Professional Photographers
Posted by chris on January 27th, 2012
Many people aspire to being a professional photographer but few will ever make it. A small subset of the total will actually make some money. Out of that small subset who manages to make money, an even smaller percentage will actually end up making their living from photography. There are certain qualities which separate those [...]
Four Tips For Better Group Shots
Posted by chris on January 26th, 2012
There are probably more group shots on the internet and photo sharing services than any other type of picture. And the vast majority of them are going to be a loosely organized mob of people thrown together in uncomfortable closeness for a few quick frames of unimaginative poses punctuated by forced, half-hearted smiles. Painful for [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: group activities, group photo, group shot, group shots, moment in time, photos, smiles No Comments »Portrait Lighting On $100
Posted by chris on January 24th, 2012
In the last few months I’ve covered basic three point lighting and five point lighting but what about those of you who can’t afford to lay out that kind of cash for gear or don’t have enough space for a studio? I decided to put together a portrait lighting package that anyone with $100 to [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: camera flash, cheapskate, lighting rig, portability, portrait lighting 1 Comment »ND Filter or Polarizer?
Posted by chris on January 20th, 2012
If you’re a DSLR shooter, there are two indispensable filters you should have in your bag: One is a circular polarizer and the other is an adjustable ND filter or a set of ND filters. Which of those you choose will likely depend on whether you shoot more stills or more video. As we’ve discussed [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: circular polarizer, consistency, Depth of Field, nd filters, Shutter Speed, sky color No Comments »Going Manual
Posted by chris on January 18th, 2012
There is a debate that wanders through photography from time to time that pits people who insist that to be a great photographer you have to shoot in manual mode against people who like the convenience of the automatic camera settings. In the early days it was no contest; camera light meters were center-weighted and [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: best photos, camera settings, full auto, great photography, manual mode, Shutter Speed No Comments »Medium Format Manufacturers Cling Together For Survival
Posted by chris on January 16th, 2012
Medium format camera makers are clinging together for survival in an increasingly competitive digital photography marketplace. Phase One A/S announced that it’s merging Mamiya Digital Imaging and Leaf into a combined company called Leaf Imaging Ltd. The new entity is entering into an intellectual property license agreement with Kodak, which likely means the new medium format cameras will [...]
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