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Photographing fire performers – and the trails they make – is an art form of its own. These incredible artists can put on quite a show, and photographers love the opportunity to capture surreal images using long exposure techniques. Successful fire trail photography takes much skill and practice – moving fire combined with a darkened […]
“Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.” When he said this, Charles Baudelaire was talking about how photography seems to be a way to copy nature and present it as an archive of how we live. Baudelaire talked about photography as documentation and nothing more. He relegated its usefulness and […]
Working with models brings a whole other level of mindset to shooting and we’ve already covered how to build a rapport with a model so this article will be about finding locations to shoot at. Studio shoots are great, but sometimes a client will require you to go outside and for many shooters, that also […]
Self portraits can be a fun way of expressing yourself and your ideas, and also very rewarding if you enjoy putting yourself into a whole manner of weird and wonderful situations like I do. Sometimes it’s good just to practice what you know, learn new techniques and hone your skills, and who’s a more readily […]
Quite a few articles have been written about portraiture being one of the most difficult photography genres to master. Search online, and more than half a million blogs write about portraiture—a lot of people are trying to make sense of all the things that go into making a beautiful portrait. Portraits are the most interesting […]
