Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, “happy accidents,” and alternative film processing. Born out of a love for the Russian based LC-A camera manufactured by state run LOMO, the Austrian based, Lomographische AG is the company that produces a handful of cameras now that live by their funky […]
Author: Mike Panic
is a professional photographer. See his site at Mike Panic Photography.
Shooting people can be rewarding, frustrating, exhilarating and fun, all at once. Over the last few years, typical portrait and posed photographs of the family have gone way to more of a photo-journalistic style of shooting, and candid photographs of people have emerged as what more and more consumers want. Rather than awkward, posed photos […]
Working with models in photography, as opposed to landscape, street or even wedding and senior portraiture is a skill all unto its own. Unlike most other types of photography, you aren’t shooting a model in most cases, you’re working with the model. Building a rapport with the model you are working with will result in […]
Shooting portraits can be one of the most fulfilling and frustrating jobs a photographer can take on. Furthermore, portraits shot on location, that is to say, not in a studio with a background can be even more complicated based on what the client wants to portray. Since shooting portraits on location can be challenging, here […]
By definition, Wikipedia describes duotone as: a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting color halftone (traditionally black) over another color halftone. This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image. The most common colors used are blue, yellow, browns and reds. Duotone prints used […]
Composition is perhaps one of the photographers mightiest tools. How you choose to frame any given subject matter will, in the viewer’s eye, have a drastic impact. This article focuses on leading lines, but as a primer, I suggest looking over the Focus on Composition: The S Curve and 25 Great Shots That Use Roads […]
