photo tips and techniques
599 articles
Get Great Shots at Festivals and Events
Russ Burden
Rating: 9 / 10
Parades, events, and outdoor celebrations provide wonderful photographic opportunities. The subjects are adorned in elaborate costumes, participants are willing to pose, people are in good moods, and photo opportunities are everywhere. Here are some tips to help you make great summer photos...
Connect With Your Subject
Russ Burden
Rating: 9 / 10
Learning to connect with your subject in photography is a key to making successful photographs. Here are 3 tips to help you connect more and your result will be spectacular pictures...
How to Be Prepared in Photography
Russ Burden
Rating: 9 / 10
One of the most important facts to stick to is thinking ahead about what subjects you may encounter so you can be one step ahead equipment wise - in other words, Be Prepared.
Three Tips For Better Nature Photography
Russ Burden
Rating: 9 / 10
The beauty about photography is the learning is unending. Whether it's reinforcing what you've already learned or trying out something you've never done. Here are three tips for better nature photography...
RTM - Read the Manual for Your Camera!
Russ Burden
Rating: 9 / 10
Let's take a look at a few scenarios of image capture where reading your camera manual enables you to take your photography to the next level...
Shutterfly Celebrates Graduates with Colorful Invitations & Announcements
Rating: Not yet rated
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Shutterfly wants to help the Class of 2011 put their personalized touch on grad parties and graduation announcements.
The Not Still Picture: images that depict action but have grace and fluidity
Russ Burden
Rating: 9 / 10
How can you create images that depict action but have grace and fluidity? The answer is found in how the shutter speed is used to make the image. Rather than freeze a moment in time with a fast shutter, let the subjects paint the pixels onto my sensor by slowing down the shutter. The result is action in slowed down and implied motion.
6 Tips for Creating Glamour Photographs
Alice B. Miller
Rating: 9 / 10
Glamour photography, which recalls Hollywood's famous pinup girls, is enjoying renewed popularity as more women seek images of themselves that capture their sensuality and inner beauty, with class and dignity. Here are some tips to get you started...
How to Get Started in Travel Photography
Bill Durrence
Rating: 9 / 10
Where do you start with Travel Photography? Start at home, right in your own backyard. Shoot photos of your neighborhood, where you can keep going back to the same subject and reshooting it to develop your technical and aesthetic skills, and become more aware of how things change in different light, different times of day, different weather, different seasons...
