Museums can be frustrating places for photography. They contain lots of interesting subjects, but are usually poorly lit and have restrictions on photography. Some museums may have restrictions on certain exhibits or exhibitions where photography is completely prohibited, but allow photography of other exhibits.
Buddha by eschipul on flickr (licensed CC-BY-SA)
Wildlife photography is certainly not easy. It requires a great deal of patience, trying to get close to your subject, or waiting for your subject to get close enough to you for a shot. Sometimes even finding the subject can be a problem! But it can result in some spectacular shots.
✿ Chouette ✿ by ✿ nicolas_gent ✿ on flickr (licensed CC-BY-ND)
A Physiogram is a photo of the light pattern captured during a long exposure photograph of a swinging light or lights. The effect creates beautiful abstract patterns.
Physiogram by Sylviane Moss on flickr (licensed CC-BY-ND)
Today I have a photo tip that actually breaks the rules. I'm going to talk about including hats in portrait photography.
Hats can say a lot about a person's personality and are a good prop to use - if they actually DO fit the subject's personality.
miss holmes by Angelo González on flickr (licensed CC-BY)
One of the main benefits of digital cameras is the ability to review your images on the camera. This allows you to easily check whether you got the shot you wanted. If you didn't (and your subject hasn't changed), then you can adjust the settings and try again until you do get the shot you want.
Camera LCD by Hanumann on flickr (licensed CC-BY)
In this article we'll look at the different information we can see using the camera's image playback, and how to use this to get the shot you want.
Read the rest of this entry »You may have heard the phrase It's The Photographer, Not the Camera
, or maybe the more generic A bad workman always blames his tools
. These phrases are often used to indicate that buying a new camera (or other related gear) won't make you any better a photographer.
While this is true in many cases, there are also plenty of cases where buying better gear does result in better photos. In some cases buying new gear may be the only way to get a certain type of photo.
An extreme example of this is where professional photographer Chase Jarvis was asked to photograph a couple of shoots using a lego camera. Even though he cheated somewhat by also using a speedlight and a variable neutral density filter, you can see that the camera was definitely the weak link.
Read the rest of this entry »If you share or publish your photos online, it is very likely that at some point they'll be used by someone else without your permission, and without crediting you as the photographer.
You can never really prevent people from stealing your work (unless you never display it on the web or anywhere else). But there are a number of things you can do to to discourage potential image thieves.
Read the rest of this entry »Photographing a child's birthday party can be quite difficult, with the subjects being quite noisy and animated. However, it is well worth the effort to record those important memories for you (and your child) to look back on later, as well as great photos you can share today.
In this article I'll cover some tips to help you get some great birthday photos.
Read the rest of this entry »When we're going away on vacation, we like to get some great photos to remember the great time we had and interesting things we saw. However, sometimes we can't remember why we took a certain shot. Other times we can remember, but the photo doesn't really show what it was meant to.
Here are ten tips to help you avoid these problems, and get some great vacation photos.
Read the rest of this entry »With the explosion of digital photography, it has created a lot of opportunities in photography that once were not available to anyone but professional photographers. This explosion of new photographers has helped to broaden the market for both publications and photographers themselves, creating new sources of images and new places to sell them. But as a new photographer it may seem challenging to get started so let's take a look at the world of magazine photography.
4-19-12: Published by Lost Albatross on flickr (licensed CC-BY-ND)
