Have you ever noticed a slight sideways lean to your images? Or perhaps that they are not perfectly aligned with the horizon or a vertical line in the frame? Well, don’t feel bad, that is a very common flaw in photography, and there are several ways of correcting it. Getting It Right First Time The […]
Author: Federico Alegria
Federico has a decade of experience in documentary photography, and is a University Professor in photography and research methodology. He's a scientist studying the social uses of photography in contemporary culture who writes about photography and develops documentary projects. Other activities Federico is involved in photography are curation, critique, education, mentoring, outreach and reviews. Get to know him better here.
First thing’s first, we want to give a special shout out to our newest 150 members, we encourage each and one of you to share photographs, knowledge and any sort in inquiry in our forums. First up, if you don’t do anything else this week, take a look at Chris Pook’s short series of photographs […]
Kingfishers are just amazing birds. They are extremely fast and difficult to capture with a camera. If you’d like to get into bird photography, here are three great quick guides from Photzy to get you started. Even better, these three guides are by the wonderfully talented bird photographer Tobie Schalkwyk – oh and they are […]
As long as photographers keep in mind that cameras are just the tools they use to capture light the way they want it to be, but we can still love cameras for their abilities, engineering and aesthetic. Photography has been evolving since its first appearance with cameras becoming faster and more portable all the time. […]
Umbrellas have something that makes them extremely photogenic. Colorful and whimsical, they are so beautiful to photograph that they might even be considered a cliché for some photographers. But, at Light Stalking, we embrace guilty pleasures, and umbrellas are one of them, so sit back and relax with this beautiful collection of umbrellas we’ve picked […]
Composition is the soul of a photograph, and isolating a subject is the best way of simplifying things down in order to get effective and striking photographs. Last week we had a pretty crowded challenge based around isolation. Check the collection of photographs uploaded by our members. And speaking of members, we got bigger this […]