To most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. – Henri Cartier-Bresson If you don’t like people, portrait photography is not a wise choice for your photographic career. Unlike several other areas of…
Candid Photography is nothing but “catch people in the act of being themselves“. The goal of candid photography is not to grab pictures surreptitiously, with your subjects completely unaware that their picture is being taken. The best candid pictures result when the subjects know exactly what is going on –…
Every artist entitled to be the creator should definitely understand the concept behind the term publishing. Not many of our wonderful artists today appreciate or follow this term which eventually leads to a downfall to them & their creations. Trying to break the term – “Publishing” do not interpret it…
Nature is a greatest inspiration for photography. Finding the patterns in nature means opening yourself up to nature’s design. The repetition of shape and pattern in the natural world can be surprising and worthy of hours of creative investigation. Whether the uniform pattern of a flower or a leaf, or…
What is Digital Photography Workflow exactly? All we really want to do is take great pictures and reproduce them in the best way possible. But doing so actually involves a whole series of steps, from transferring the image files to a computer, to file naming, file format conversion, image optimization,…
Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography, aimed at producing attractive photographs of food for use in advertisements, packaging, menus or cookbooks. Professional food photography is a collaborative effort, usually involving an art director, a photographer, a food stylist, a prop stylist and their assistants. Here are…
Shooting kids is one of the toughest shooting sessions possible. Whether you are a professional photographer, an amateur or just a father with a point and shoot, kids raise some of the more challenging aspect of photography. They move fast, they don’t take modeling instructions; they touch your gear and…
Still life photographs show arrangements of inanimate objects-such as food, flowers, shells, bottles, glasses, books, jewelry-captured in the studio or sometimes in the field. One of the traditional forms of art, still life painting was practiced by the ancient Egyptians as a way to provide a symbolic send-off for the…
We’ve all had the experience: Driving through a beautiful landscape, you stop at every scenic overlook to make photographs sure to capture the grandeur of what you see. You get home, look at the pictures, and find them flat and boring. All the elements that enthralled you at the time…
Every artist goes through this specific period in their art life, the phase where magic keeps working for them. Shining with every piece of work they produce and heaps of praises warming them time to time. And gradually or more often, We tend to produce a particular genre of work…
When we understand that sound is nothing but vibrations all around created using crafted instruments or any sensual instrument. It becomes even more compelling for us to compare it with Photography, to be precise a picture. It is often common that when we listen to a piece of music, there…
Guest Article By : Cole Thompson John Holland Memorial – Convict Lake, CA – 2012 What does it take to create a great image? At various times in my life I’ve had different thoughts about this; as a young man I just knew that it was the location, and if…
In both life and photography, simplicity is very important. Life simplification techniques can also easily apply to your photography. If you observe that most unsuccessful photographs fail because they are too complicated. The photographer is unable to tell his thoughts clearly, and the resulting photograph illustrates his uncertainty and lack…
This is the time to learn something and upgrade ourselves. The good news is a lot of platforms, photographers are giving their advice and experiences in online. Here, photography equipment giants Nikon, Olympus, Leica offering free online photography courses, sessions and web meetings for free. You can click on the…
This time we give you an article on how to create stunning images with your kits lens. Yes, that 18-55mm lens which many of us must have an underestimated lens. One should think why the manufacturers have given this range of 18-55 to start with, and then we realize this…
Not many appreciated or agreed to the fact for me going to buy a 28mm lens for my crop sensor camera. I did some basic study on the internet but then the reviews had its own negative impacts on me. It took a while for me to understand & then…