Nineteen years ago I got my first real camera, a Canon EOS Rebel X. This 35mm film camera for me was something I had been lusting after for years, all the way back to the famous Andre Agassi campaign with the famous catch-line stop taking snapshots and start taking photographs. The days of mullets have […]
Author: Mike Panic
is a professional photographer. See his site at Mike Panic Photography.
They say getting there is half the fun but only if your photo gear gets there safely, and isn’t bothersome to transport. Along the same lines, I’m a fan of the saying use the proper product to get the job done because there isn’t one good all-around solution for every photographer in every situation. Because […]
In a previous article we covered what every beginner needs to know about product photography, a primer to this article. Photographing jewelry is perhaps one of the more advanced and frankly frustrating disciplines one can try to master. The practical uses can be applied to many aspects, both for fun and extra income. This article […]
The HDR trend has come and, for many, gone, but what came of it is the easy-to-digest concept that creating one photograph may actually require several images, then blend them together. For HDR photography it’s the need of multiple exposures to compensate for what a digital sensor cannot do on it’s own – properly expose […]
Photography is more than just sunsets, memories of vacations, family gatherings and weddings – it’s actually in our life every single day. Product photography ranges the gamut from cereal boxes and billboards, to the photos you see on Amazon and every other online retailer. Someone takes those photos, and those photos require a lot of […]
Family portraits that may be hanging in your grandparents house probably don’t look very fun, but you still enjoy them because they are photos of your loved ones. It seems that having a formal family photo taken every year or every few years comes into vogue as soon as it goes out and right now […]