Every now and then, it’s a good idea to trawl through one of the photo sharing sites like Flickr or 500 and do a search for your favourite niche of photography. It’s a great way to keep up with trends and see where other people’s creativity is taking your area of interest. Well, we have […]
5 Challenging Problems I Have Encountered Trying Macro in My Garden
It’s very easy to get motivated to whip out the camera and head into the garden for some macro photography when you see some of the stunning images coming from photographers such as Steve Wall or Thomas Shahan among many others. Their vivid portrayals of a wold that few people ever see are visually stunning. […]
How to Digitise Film
There is no doubt the film revival is here and here to stay and knowing how to digitise film is a useful skills a film photographer. Increasing numbers of people, both masters of celluloid and disciples of digital are giving film photography a look. Of course one of the most satisfying aspects of film photography […]
Stay Up to Date With Your Lightroom Skills With These 9 Recent Tutorials and Tips from Around the Web
Photography skills are an never ending evolution of learning and keeping up with the latest trends and post production is no exception. If, like most professionals and advanced amateur photographers, you use Adobe’s Lightroom, then it becomes very handy to know the latest in how the program works and how you can use small tips […]
A Basic Guide to Different Camera Types
With apologies to some of our more advanced Light Stalkers, today we are going to give some practical advice to those just starting out in this wonderful hobby of ours. These days, most people getting into photography will probably come from a smartphone. Smartphones are one of the biggest drivers of the expansion of photography. […]
Why No Photographer Should Ever Have Downtime
When you get into the world of photography, there are a lot of things that “click” through sheer exposure to the industry. One of those things is that the vast majority of successful photographers you meet are always busy, even when they don’t have clients. But how can that be? What is The True Value […]
The Best of the Photography World This Past Week
The world of photography is an exciting place right now with artists and writers from all genres creating terrific content. In this weeks post we find that Toad Hollow Photography has been searching all over the internet for links to the best photographs, tutorials and publications to share here with everyone. We really hope you […]
Photography Flashback: Do You Remember Flashcubes?
Gone are those days when photography was not only a rare profession, but also a dangerous one. By dangerous, I mean, photographers have taken risks enough to lose their lives or survived with very bad injuries and disfigurement! So what was the reason? It was the use of artificial light for photography and photographers had to […]
One Night in Bruges – How I Shot One of My Best Selling Stock Photographs
The best laid plans of mice and men as they say. As photographers we often plan the hell out of shoots only to find our plans lie in ruin when we arrive on site. Very often this is because of the weather, rain, dull light and wind can all contribute to making us feel very […]
How to Tell a Unique Story Using Your Photography Skills
Photography is a visual form of storytelling. Be it a single image, a montage or an entire sequence we can relate a story to the people viewing the images. There are so many forms of photography that are ideally suited to storytelling. Documentary and photo journalism are the obvious ones but think a little outside […]