There are many rules in the world, and it is just plain frustrating to know that even our most creative endeavors, such as photography, will also have some standard rules as well.
Ray Baker
Online Photography Courses
Online Photography Courses
There are many online photography courses and schools available, and students should choose one which will provide the proper training depending on what he wants to learn. Programs are often tailored to certain types of photography, and some created just for people who want to make photography their careers, which will cover business aspects as well as the photographic arts. Programs vary in material, certification, and range of instruction. Some focus just on imaging and digital photography and others instruct in film photography as well.
5 Money Saving Tips for Your Photography Business
When you’re a freelance photographer or in the industry because you work for someone else, you don’t really have to worry about recurring costs because they’re usually taken care of by your employer. But when you run your own photography business, you find your costs creeping up because you need to rent office space, buy equipment, and pay the salary of staff, even though it’s skeletal at best. If you’re looking to make your business profitable, you need to cut down on your expenses, because every penny not spent is one that earns interest for you. To that end, here are five money saving tips for your photography business:
How to Succeed with Boudoir Photography
Where does the term boudoir photography come from and why is it becoming more popular? The meaning of the french word boudoir is bedroom and is seen as having a romantic sensual feel about it more than most words with the same meaning. So too should the photographs. The demand for boudoir photography is growing rapidly for reasons I can’t explain because it’s not new yet its popularity is growing by the day. Do not confuse glamour photography or boudoir photography. Glamour photography is more general while boudoir photography is dedicated to a romantic bedroom theme.
Wedding Photography Prices
While it can’t be emphasized enough, the photographs from a wedding are the one tangible thing that will last, long after the candles are all blown out and the guests have gone home. It makes sense, then, to rank the wedding photographer fairly high in importance when planning a wedding. That doesn’t mean, however, that … Read more
Garden Photography
Garden Photography
Automatic cameras are great for everyday snapshots, but can be challenging when it comes to photographing nature. After all, it’s difficult for you to make adjustments when your camera insists on doing things its preprogrammed way. Here, however, are some things you can do to get some good shots:
- The middle of the day, around noon, or when the sun is really bright, is the worst time to try and get some nature shots. The sun typically bleaches the pictures out pretty badly.
Review of Photo Nuts and Bolts: Know your Camera and take better Photos
Learn to know your camera and take better photos. This review has come about because of you. As a result of recent emails referring to the ‘nuts and bolts’ eGuide slant I had in my last post, I now understand I should have created a review instead of expecting everyone to know what I was talking about …oops! Anyway, rather than go into a long winded list of excuses why I didn’t do that (…cause I’m sure that’s exactly what you don’t want), here’s my review.
Photoshop HDR Photography
HDR (high dynamic range) imagery has helped professional photographers to record photos other than those that they could capture with a camera. It has opened up the photos so that they can record a great range of lighting detail, and makes photos that would otherwise have very dark tonal areas aesthetically pleasing.
31 Photography Quotes by Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was a great American photographer, most well known as a master landscape artist. Most of his photographs depict natural landscapes of the American west. Born in San Francisco in 1902, Ansel Adams trained as a concert pianist before deciding to become photographer. He became famous for the technical skill with which he produced … Read more
10 Must Read Photography Blogs
In researching this article, I did a Google search for “great photography blog” and it gave me 45,800,000 results. Where would I even start to look for other great photography blogs (besides the one you’re reading now? :-))
To narrow down the field, I looked at several pages of results and noted the blogs that were mentioned multiple times in different articles, and then did quite a bit of browsing on each of those blogs. Here are some (other) great photography blogs that are worth taking a look at, in no particular order: