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Help! Your Support is Imperative.
I know, your summer is busy and hopefully you are out capturing amazing images. But, I need to remind you that this site, a free resource that hopefully has value to you, needs your help. The costs, in both time … Continue reading
6 Tips To Help You Improve Your Documentary Photos
Documentary photos can have a powerful impact on viewers. They can notify people of an issue that they wouldn’t otherwise know about. Documentary images can help focus attention on different cultures that are rarely seen by other people. They can … Continue reading
5 Tips to Help You Do Better Nighttime Photography
Nighttime photography offers the opportunity to observe and photograph some great astronomical subjects including the moon (as a whole or during different phases), stars, the Milky Way and even celestial events such as the Northern Lights. If you are new … Continue reading
Pros and Cons of Chimping – What is it and how it can hurt or help you?
Whether you are an amateur taking photos with your smartphone or a pro using a DSLR, if you make digital photographs, you do chimping. It doesn’t matter if you’ve heard the term or not it could be hurting your photographic … Continue reading
4 Tips to Help You Overcome the Fear of Photographing People
Are you someone who shies away from photographing people? I this article, I want to share with you some of my journey and four tips to help you become more confident photographing people. I went from being fearful of photographing … Continue reading
21 Tips to Help You Create Better Panoramas
Panoramas are a great way to approach photographing landscapes. By allowing you to capture a larger amount of the scene in front of you, it is easier to portray what you actually saw with your eyes in your photographs. Software … Continue reading
5 Framing Tricks to Help You Capture Better Landscape Photos
Landscape photography is one of the most popular genres of photography and for good reason. A great landscape photo has the power to wow the viewer and captures the beauty of the incredible planet that we live on. But landscape … Continue reading
7 Quick Tips To Help You Capture Better Portraits
Taking great portraits is a great genre of photography to master. Some of the most famous photographs in the world and even paintings are simple head and shoulder portraits. They can tell us so much about the person being photographed. … Continue reading
4 Reasons Why Putting Your Camera Down Can Help You Take Better Photos
We’ve all been there; in a new country, a new city or just a new part of your local town. Camera in hand, you shoot and shoot and shoot as your memory card never seems to fill up. It’s thrilling and … Continue reading
Camera Basics – Two Video Tutorials to Help You Master Your Camera Settings
Okay so you’ve got a new camera and want to learn some camera basics, these two video tutorials will give you a hand. Or perhaps you’ve been shooting for a while and want to get off Auto mode – this … Continue reading
The Importance of Learning From Failure to Help You Grow as a Photographer
There’s a scene in the 1995 movie Apollo 13 when Gene Kranz, flight commander of the ill-fated moon mission, tells his team that, “Failure is not an option” as they struggle to find a way to bring three astronauts home … Continue reading
4 Tips to Help You Love Using Manual Mode
In this article, I’d like to share with you a few tips on how to utilize some of your camera’s functions to help you come to grips with shooting in Manual Mode. Sometimes stripping back to the basics and only … Continue reading