The advantage of the digital age is that anyone with talent can now market themselves as a photographer. The disadvantage is that with so many photographers to choose from, buyers and clients have to make some difficult decisions. When they’r ...

"Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. While this is good common sense - completely changing the angle that you shoot from can give your portrait a real WOW factor." "It is amazing how mu ...

Digital photography requires a solid workflow, allowing for professional preparing of digital photo files for the web and print. For the Digital Photography Workflow series, we consulted with a number of experienced professional photographer ...

Choose a career in movies and everyone will tell you that your first years will be spent waiting tables. Set your sights on medicine and you know you’ll have to spend four years in undergraduate digs, and several more sweating through medical ...

This article does not deal with camera settings, but rather with the general principles to getting the perfect shot and making sure the scene looks good. Some general camera tips, however, include shooting above f/6.3 to allow good depth of f ...

I find the family photo part of the day can be quite stressful. People are going everywhere, you’re unaware of the different family dynamics at play and people are in a ‘festive spirit’ (and have often been drinking a few spirits) to the poin ...

Taking pictures with your new digital camera can be handy. You won’t have to waste films, so you can practice all the time while simply deleting the pictures you don’t really like. Most of all, they come with a lot of handy programs, one of w ...

Develop diving skills. "For photography the most important skill is buoyancy control -- the ability to hold yourself in a stable position in the water," Snyder says. Most underwater photography is close-up work, and adjusting focus may mean m ...

For many photographers, the ultimate goal is see their images not on websites or even in magazines but on walls. And ideally, those walls will be in galleries, and carry next to each photograph a label, a large price tag, and a red dot indica ...

When you are shooting a home with a view, there’s nothing more important to the home owners and listing agent than seeing stunning view through the windows. You want to make the windows look like someone took out the glass! From a photo editi ...

We’re spoiled for choice these days and that’s no good thing. If you want to create a website to promote your photography, you can take your pick of templates, tools and portfolio sites. If you want to learn how to shoot better pictures, you c ...

"Maybe you are a professional portrait photographer trying to separate yourself from the high school senior market or maybe you are a parent just wanting to impress your children. Either way, this simple project can be great fun and produce p ...

"Light Trails continue to be popular subject matter for many photographers and they can actually be a great training ground for those wanting to get their cameras out of manual mode and to experiment with shooting in low light at longer expos ...

A list of tips in order to improve your photography. "1. Learn Where You Need To Improve Before getting better at anything, you need to work out what you actually need to work on. Write a list of things you don’t feel confident with, it ...

Photographers keep facing more and more questions and charges for breaking the law, making it important now so more than ever to understand your rights and responsibilities as a photographer. In this article, we’ll go over such rights, as wel ...