In August 2015 Instagram lifted the square-format-only limitation and began allowing users to post images in landscape and portrait orientation as well. For their part, Instagram insisted the change was being implemented as a way to allow users to tell their visual stories however they see fit. But given that Instagram’s popularity originally revolved around […]
Author: Jason D. Little
Jason Little is a photographer, author and stock shooter. You can see Jason’s photography on his Website or his Instagram feed.
For better or worse (usually worse), it is a hallmark of human behavior to classify and categorize everything and everyone around us. Maybe this is why we tend to have such a limited concept of what a portrait is. If you were to play a word association game with someone and you threw the word […]
Is there anything that can’t be fixed in post? Thanks to the brilliance of Lightroom, Photoshop, and other similar applications, one could easily surmise that the answer to that question is a resounding no. Crooked horizons, over/under-exposure, excessive noise — all relatively easy to remedy. You can even remove the people cluttering up your shot […]
We all read a good deal of information about the technical components of photography hoping to perfect our photos or, at the very least, make them look as good as the images we’ve seen produced by our favorite photographers. I am quite sure that, when assessing our own work, many of us have a mental […]
I was asked recently be an enthusiastic beginner photographer, “What would you say is your number piece of advice that would help make me a better photographer?” “Just one?” I replied with a strained expression. I couldn’t come up with just one thing and leave it at that, as if I’m somehow qualified to make […]
When perusing photography articles and tutorials across the Web it’s not uncommon to encounter various takes on “getting it right in camera.” From exposure to white balance to composition, the idea is to get as many things as possible right in camera, thereby reducing your reliance on software after the fact. While getting right in […]
