Chimping for photographers has become a pretty standard part of shooting. Not familiar with the term? It’s when you review the photos you just took, usually followed by an ooh ooh sound by yourself and whoever you’re showing. There is a time when the screen on your camera simply isn’t big enough to review images […]
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Shooting models lends itself to slightly different equipment than say, a landscape shoot. Here we will explain what you need for your first model shoot and why it will become useful. Photo By Cillian Storm While a DSLR is a given, lens choices will make the difference here. Anything in and around the 100mm range […]
Shooting models alone, for fun or for work can be challenging enough, but mix in an outdoor, on-location shoot and you’ll really put your skills to the test. Shooting outdoors offers up many more variables within photography, but also puts a certain strain on the shoot. Knowing what to do, when and quickly can make […]
Over the years we’ve covered portraits, both shooting and post processing them, and we’ve provided you with an amazing guide to depth of field, but never covered specific strategies. As a primer to this article, take a look at 17 excellent examples of narrow depth of field to get an idea of how depth of […]
Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, “happy accidents,” and alternative film processing. Born out of a love for the Russian based LC-A camera manufactured by state run LOMO, the Austrian based, Lomographische AG is the company that produces a handful of cameras now that live by their funky […]
Shooting people can be rewarding, frustrating, exhilarating and fun, all at once. Over the last few years, typical portrait and posed photographs of the family have gone way to more of a photo-journalistic style of shooting, and candid photographs of people have emerged as what more and more consumers want. Rather than awkward, posed photos […]