There are some very basic mistakes you can make as a photographer, there are even a few you can catch yourself making when you’ve been shooting photos for 20 years. I know that’s true because I made one of these mistakes this weekend. Luckily these weren’t for a paying client but they could have been. [...]
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Three Amateur Mistakes Even Pros Can Make
Posted by chris on April 23rd, 2012
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Tags: digital cameras, mistake, photographer, photography 101, professional work 
No Comments »Summer Photography Accessories
Posted by chris on April 20th, 2012
Spring and summer are great times to be out shooting. Long days and warmer temperatures mean you have more daylight to work with and can hike out to where the really amazing photos hide. Because waiting for golden hour can mean being out late, there are some accessories for spring and summer shooting you’ll want [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: camera bags, circular polarizer, lightweight tripod, lowepro, nd filter No Comments »Don’t Skimp On Your Wedding Photographer
Posted by chris on April 18th, 2012
With the cost of the average wedding already approaching $27,000 dollars it would seem to make little sense to skimp on the person you’re counting on to capture the memories of a production of that scale. Even when my wife and I got married, we flew in a friend of mine, a fellow professional photographer, [...]
Sony Muscles Into Canon and Nikon’s Market
Posted by chris on April 16th, 2012
For decades photography has been dominated by two names: Nikon and Canon. For sure there have been challengers all along the way and some have fielded some very nice cameras. Pentax 35mm film cameras were competitive back in the day and Fuji made some fantastic glass. Still, the competitive landscape has ebbed and flowed over [...]
Reality vs Photoshop
Posted by chris on April 13th, 2012
A funny thing happened during the transition from film to digital as photographers were forced to adapt to a new reality in viewer expectations. In the old days, digital manipulation of images was hard. After you had the film processed, the image had to be printed, then scanned before you could start the digital transformation. [...]
Four Photography Cliches That Need To Die
Posted by chris on April 11th, 2012
Photography is an artistic business and like any business rooted in the arts there are going to be trends and fads. It’s smart business to keep up with those trends, because while you and I might consider a trend somewhat lame, there is such a thing as being dead right. If you’re losing bookings because [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: fads, image effects, image filters, point and shoot camera, smart business, wedding albums No Comments »You Will Have Equipment Trouble
Posted by chris on April 9th, 2012
While digital cameras seemingly get more miraculous every year, one thing that won’t change is the likelihood of something going wrong. I can flat out guarantee that, on a long enough timeline, you will have equipment failure as a professional photographer. Engineering and automated manufacturing can jam more and more sophisticated electronics into impossibly small [...]
Is Your New Camera Still Taking Bad Pictures?
Posted by chris on April 6th, 2012
My aunt is a wonderful person, almost saintly, but when it comes to DSLRs she’s definitely not used to big cameras. I asked her to take some pictures of my wife and I and got photos where you can see our heads at the very bottom of a vertical frame and a whole lot of [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: camera frame, framing, landscape photo, photographer, photos, point and shoot camera, visual focus No Comments »Canon Treats Stargazers With EOS 60Da
Posted by chris on April 4th, 2012
You don’t have to be a stargazer to like the new Canon EOS 60Da but it helps. Back in 2005 Canon announced the EOS 20Da, a camera with the internal infrared filter removed for more sensitivity to infrared light. That request came from the thousands of Canon shooters who had their cameras attached to the [...]
Posted in Articles Tags: digital cameras, eos 60da, hydrogen alpha, infrared wavelengths, ir images, stargazer No Comments »Three Realities About Professional Photography
Posted by chris on April 2nd, 2012
To people outside the business professional photography looks easy and glamorous. Let me assure you that is not the case. While I may be able to make photography look easy, part of that is because I’ve been doing it at least part-time for over 20 years. You practice anything that long, you’re going to get [...]
