ShareWhen talking about photography, “ambience” can be a very tricky term to pin down. Usually when talking about ambience (as distinct from “ambient light”), a photographer is referring to visual elements in a photograph that capture the mood, character or feeling of a place or thing – a visual element that allows one to recall [...]

ShareBehind the often stolid walls of our galleries and museums lies objects of often indescribable beauty. Art, archaeology, artifacts taken out of their context and displayed for us to admire, comprehend, understand and where we often feel the inadequacy of our own capacity to duplicate, replicate, imitate or emulate. Photo by Tom Dinning Never fear. [...]

ShareToad Hollow Photography is a Canadian based photography company that specializes in Canadian landscapes and architecture photography using HDR, focusing on historic and heritage based subjects.  Using this fine art photography as the basis for their daily blog, Toad Hollow Photography shares an often whimsical view of Canada through their lens. Check out the Toad’s [...]

ShareLow-key photography is a terrific challenge for both the novice and the experienced. It is a very simple technique that brings instant drama to an image but could take a lifetime to master. Like most other forms of photography, it is all about illumination and elimination. Low-Key by Mo Dube (Shadow Stalker) (Tucker by Sarah [...]

ShareWhen people ask what makes a portrait stand out, there are quite a few answers. Concept is key, and so is location and background. Props can help a portrait pop. But the one answer that comes to my mind as the most important ingredient for a dramatic portrait is light. Light can change a portrait [...]

ShareA lot of photographers talk about adding emotion to a photograph. But what exactly does that mean and how can you do it? Basically it means evoking an emotional response in the viewer and there are many tried and true ways to do that. Here are some easy ways to do that though there are [...]

ShareEven if you don’t have a strobe or off camera lighting unit, you can make portraits with dramatic lighting. All you need is some natural light and a reflector. A reflector can be just as effective as a strobe and all the accessories that you can use with one.  All the portraits in this article [...]

ShareThis is a guest post by the PhotoNaturalist, Steve Berardi. Check out his amazing guides on outdoor and nature photography. Dragonflies are some of the most interesting insects found in nature. They may not look too interesting from far away, but if you look a little closer, you’ll see that they have some pretty incredible [...]

SharePhotography can be a pretty expensive hobby. There are legends about folks who have maxed their credit and minimized their bank accounts because of all the expense of building their gear inventory, all in the hope that the next purchase will transform their portraiture to awesome sauce. Every few months or so, there seems to [...]

ShareThis is a guest post fromMischa van den Brandhof. For more cool urban wildlife photos, check out her Flickr stream. Most wildlife photography is shot with a telephoto zoom lens. But urban wildlife photography is about being up close and personal. It is not advisable to try this with all wildlife, as you risk being [...]