Family portraits that may be hanging in your grandparents house probably don’t look very fun, but you still enjoy them because they are photos of your loved ones. It seems that having a formal family photo taken every year or every few years comes into vogue as soon as it goes out and right now […]
Author: Mike Panic
is a professional photographer. See his site at Mike Panic Photography.
Indoor photography scares the bajesus out of most photographers, and rightly so. On-camera flash, off-camera flash, ambient lighting and then throw people into the mix and it’s enough to make a grown man weak in the knees. Utilizing filters on lenses and flashes can change any photograph, using them specifically for indoor photography can be […]
Working with models can be rewarding and frustrating, often all at the same time. For many photographers shooting falls more into documenting, even if you are composing the shot. If you think about it, wedding, engagement, family, landscapes, birding, photojournalism, and even macro photography are all ways to document what you see. Working with a […]
“Haters gonna hate” is an Internet meme that I’m sure everyone has seen at some point. When there are a group of people large enough to actually hate something that usually means they are scared, jealous, envious or don’t understand what it is they are hating. The iPhone has changed how hundreds of millions of […]
Camera shake is the cause of many blurry photos and a frustration to new photographers. The photo can be perfectly framed, in focus, but still not sharp. At the core, the result of this is a shutter speed that’s too slow. But when is a shutter speed too slow and how can you help avoid […]
Working with models brings a whole other level of mindset to shooting and we’ve already covered how to build a rapport with a model so this article will be about finding locations to shoot at. Studio shoots are great, but sometimes a client will require you to go outside and for many shooters, that also […]