We’ve seen an incredible week in the wide world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been very busy searching online for the best material to share here. This week’s monster list is chock full of tutorials, reviews, special features, collections, great photography and interesting blogs. There’s something here for everyone, with a wide variety [...]
It can be easy to miss helpful photography articles, weekly contests and photos submitted to the forum as our site and community flourish and grow. Almost a million photographers follow us or otherwise see Light Stalking online each and every month. We’ve decided to sum up the best of Light Stalking for the past 7 [...]
There aren’t many sure things in life. No matter how diligently we plan, regardless of how much effort we put forth, there are simply going to be times when the outcome of whatever we are involved with is going to be the exact opposite of what we wanted. It stinks, I know; it can be [...]
When I first started out on this road of endless expense that is photography I spent many hours musing over the merits of black & white. There is no doubt that sometimes a black & white photograph just looks right, but why? What is it that makes black & white sometimes just work better and [...]
Waterfalls are a hugely popular subject among photographers and one that can produce some spectacular results. If the popularity of waterfall photographs on sites like Flickr and 500px are anything to go by, then the general public cannot get enough of them either. But how do you go about getting a great photograph of a [...]
Manipulation is the brother of creativity. – Michael Michalko Standing out among the ever-increasing number of photographers is becoming increasingly difficult. However, doing so is still possible. The purpose of this article is to give you ideas about how you can do it. In order to stand out we have to do things that other [...]
Flickr is fast approaching it’s ten year birthday and has had over 8 billion photographs uploaded to it but in recent years it has been overtaken by services like 500px, Instagram and even Facebook when it comes to deciding where to share your photos on the web. It’s not so much that Flickr was offering [...]
Sharpening your images is a bit of a science and there are quite a few aspects that need to be considered. You can sharpen for printing, for web maybe for display on an iPad. On top of that, different resolution images will need different settings. Combine this with the fact that current incarnations of Photoshop [...]
Light Stalking has grown into a thriving community with close to a million people following us or seeing us online in one form or other, every month. In all of the hullabaloo, it’s easy to miss the core of what’s happening in photography on Light Stalking. So that’s why we decided to sum it up [...]
Time is most definitely a precious commodity and is something that most of us can find scarce. If we are not seasoned pro photographers, and most of us probably aren’t, it can be very difficult to find the time to pursue photography meaningfully. After juggling the demands of work, home, family and possibly other extracurricular [...]
