Tweet When you look at great photos, they all tend to have elements in common. That’s not to say they look alike, but that they utilize some common elements of composition. Interestingly, when you look at bad pictures, they also have elements of composition in common. When you think about it, that should make sense. [...]
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Top Tricks For Getting Great Poses
Posted by chris on October 10th, 2011
Tweet Part of getting good portraits is getting your subject to relax and show genuine emotion instead of merely striking a pose. There are many books on how to pose people, but not as many on how to get them to show emotion in an uncomfortable situation. I’ve put together some of my tips for [...]
Adding Length to Landscapes
Posted by stephb on November 13th, 2010
Tweet Accurately capturing the vastness of a landscape scene is one of the greatest limitations of photography, and frequently troubles photographers. Adding a sense of length to landscape imagery may not be as difficult as you think. By making simple adjustments to your location, bringing the right equipment, and being willing to crop your images [...]
Creating Reflections
Posted by stephb on October 9th, 2010
Tweet The latest image enhancing software products can help you make surreal images and use your photographic skills in an imaginative way. Some traditionalists refuse the notion of using technology to enhance images but creating new images using image adjusting software is an art in its own right. A fun way to explore layering images is [...]
Selling your skills as a Baby and Pregnancy Photographer
Posted by Rowena on March 5th, 2010
Tweet When you become a baby and pregnancy photographer, as well has having ideas and knowing how to deal with people you need to know the best way to promote your services. Babies are being born all the time and these days many women want to document their pregnancy and child in a set of [...]
Photography Guides Affiliate Marketing and Referrals
Posted by Rowena on November 11th, 2009
Tweet Got your website up and running? Managed to get visitors coming to see your work day to day and want to make some money out of it? Affiliate marketing could be for you. Affiliate marketing is when a website helps to promote an online store by promoting their shop on their own website and [...]
Hints when using a stock photo library
Posted by Rowena on August 28th, 2009
Tweet Signing up to a Photo Library to sell your prints is an exciting thing to do. Always stay organized and do your homework – get yourself a file to keep all your paperwork together. Once you have chosen your library and have a set of images ready to upload you still need to consider [...]
Photographing Pets: Cats
Posted by Rowena on August 7th, 2009
Tweet People always say, don’t work with children or animals – and yet they make some of the most interesting photographs. Pet photographs can make great momentums, but they are also great material for stock agencies, or for the greeting card/gift industry. If you have a kitty that you want to capture on film here [...]
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1 Comment »Making money with stock/photo libraries
Posted by Rowena on March 11th, 2009
Tweet If you want an opportunity to make money with your photography, why not try to sell your work via a picture library? What a picture library does is host your images on the Internet and advertises it to potential buyers, who will then pay the agency if they want to use your photo. The [...]
Posted in Articles, Photography Tips Tags: Money, most, photo, stock photo agencies, which No Comments »The Telectroscope
Posted by Greg on May 27th, 2008
Tweet I ran across a mention of this interesting artistic venture in a photography forum, and felt that it’s novelty, along with it’s rather nebulous technology, warranted a mention in the blog this week. Though definitely not on par with the professional Canon 1Ds Mark III, the Telectroscope combines bulbous 19th century-ish, brass, scientific instrumentation [...]
