Flickr hacks are so cool and make your life much easier. Enclosed you will find 30+ flickr hacks, tips, and how-tos. Actually I link to 21 of them. Anyway here they are: • Tag photos and blog posts with emotions. So few people do that ...

Why start with just one light? Because you can get amazing portraits, that’s why. Did I mention less equipment, less complication, less cost, and less time? Oh, and once you’ve mastered portraits with a single light, using more lights is pure ...

However amazing the vision of a photographer may be, however sharp their lens and regardless of the number of pixels on their camera’s sensor, the shot can only succeed if the lighting is right. It follows that we should commit both thought a ...

The image that came straight out of your camera is probably not good enough to be sold Since the advent of photography, photographers have toiled over their images after the image was taken. In the film days, this meant hours in the darkroom ...

"In portrait photography, it helps to have a sense of imagination, vision, composition, and at times, a sense of humor. Interaction with your subjects is paramount and maintaining that interaction while simultaneously juggling the technical a ...

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 ...

I think what will be surprising for many of you watching today's tutorial will be the utter simplicity of the set-up. I'll show you a small shooting space, a simple background, and a very easy one light portrait technique. For me, it' ...

"Have you ever sat down to a plate of food and thought, "This would make a great photograph"? When the food, setting and lighting all come together, the combination can make for a beautiful scene worth photographing. Some photographers are so ...

An important concept to understand when dealing with studio lighting for portrait photography is contrast. Contrast is the difference in the amount of light that falls on the dark areas of a scene and the amount of light that falls on the hig ...

If you are a photographer and using flash (either for studio pictures or for outdoor shooting), you are probably aware of the problems that a hot-shoe flash introduces: the shadows of an object are crisp-sharp, creating an artificial look to ...

Studio lighting can be broken down into two categories, continuous and flash. While continuous lighting has two main advantages there are many disadvantages. The good points of continuous light: * It's inexpensive, and makes a good starting ...

"The aim of this article is to introduce you to the versatility of your new Paglight whilst exposing the secrets of good lighting in such a way that you can continue to build on your skills and enj ...

Packed with incredible images and step-by-step techniques, this book is a must have for commercial, wedding, and portrait photographers working on location who want to maximize their time behind the camera and minimize their time spent haulin ...

In the world of fashion and high-end portrait photography, lighting is the key to professional-looking images. Having the ability to control the light that falls on your subject allows you many different ways of expressing an idea photographi ...

Sometimes people look at my images and think that the more unusual lighting effects are created in post, but it's all done in-camera. I did this with the Hummer shot to get the detail that was missing behind the axle stands that were r ...