Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Learning to evaluate your own work and getting good honest feedback is critical to improving as a photographer. Others will see things you don’t see. It will give you tips to help you improve. And it is peculiar to your work (not just general tips for everyone).

The problem is that getting honest feedback on your work has always been difficult. Your choices boil down to:

  • Bothering friends and family in the hopes that they would risk hurting your feelings to... more

Do you think you have what it takes to become the official photographer of the US Supreme Court? If you do, youll be happy to know that they are hiring people for this position. Its a full-time job with a wide salary range, between $54,972 and $86,460 per year. And from the posting, it seems […]

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The Nikon 600mm f/4 E FL ED VR is a great bird photographer’s lens (and a super-pricey one). But Kai Wong wanted to check whether its better for shooting birds than a shotgun. So, he teamed up with Paul John Bayfield and they created a shooting challenge. Paul used Nikon F5 and the 600mm lens, […]

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Doing photography exercises brings forth new opportunities to improve your skills, hone in on your craft and who knows, even guide you in the direction of finding a new genre that you love more than anything in the world! Here are 15 creative ideas to take you out of your comfort zone, and guide you in your quest to boost your creativity.

Get out there and put your own spin to each of these prompts. Bonus points if you have never tried any of these before. When you push yourself to get... more

Its the first day of spring, soflowers and photos of them are all around. But are you up for some different flowers? How about dandelions made of windmills? Photographer Jamie Seidel took and edited a fantastic photo where he made windmills look like white dandelions. It took 700 photos, so he also created a timelapse […]

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Do you use a monopod? It’ definitely a useful tool for photographers and filmmakers, and it comes in handy when we cant use a tripod. Jordy Vandeput from Cinecom gives you a few tips how to make the use of monopod creative in the videos. In his brief tutorial, you will see five ideas to […]

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A drunk guy in a bar in Amsterdam said the following to me after I told him I work as a fine-art photographer: “So man, you love that photo stuff, right? Do you have to pray to the photo gods for good shots or how do you get them?” Although he spit all over me, […]

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Lomography has introduced a new instant camera with wide angle lens named Lomo’Instant Automat Glass Magellan. Aside from a multi-coated 38mm lens, the first of its kind, it also features aperture thats pretty large for an instant camera. It goes up to f/4.5, which makes the lens ideal for action shots and shooting in low […]

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As a photographer,shooting tethered is one of the best ways to improve your photography skills. Tethering helps you zoom into the details of your shots on a big screen so you can make adjustments as you go. It also encourages collaboration by keeping your photo subject or client engaged if they’re on location with you. In this article, I’ll explain what tethered shooting is and why wireless tethering with an... more

Is the most egalitarian form of photography, street photography, being destroyed by its own popularity? Is such a thing even possible? I wont profess to have a clear answer to this question, but I do have some thoughts. Those thoughts may turn into a rant, but I will try to contain myself! Egalitarian = Good, […]

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