People and A Sense of Place – Musings on Environmental Portraits
One of the most useful skills a photographer can have is the ability to convey a sense of place to the viewer. This is particularly true for the travel photographer. For the professional, the photos are often required to sell a destination or illustrate a story. For the amateur, it might be to wow [...]
Low Light Portraits – A Quick Tip
I recently received a request from a reader asking about some tips for taking photos in situations of low light, particularly when flash or tripods are not able to be used. Standards tips for this type of photography would be to use a fast lens. With lenses such as the 50mm f1.8 being so [...]
After The Sun – A How To Guide To Night Photography
Introduction
As a photographer, what do you do after the sun has set? For some, that might be time to pack up, head to a bar and have a couple of drinks. Others may prefer to head home and upload their days photographs to a photo sharing website or blog. However, the setting sun doesn’t [...]
Travel Photography Tips
How many times have you returned from a vacation, looked at your photos and been underwhelmed? Have you ever wondered how to make great travel photos? Well read on after the jump because I’m about to give you a few tips that will take your travel photography from good to great.
Ten Tips For People Photography
More often than not, it’s the people you meet that make travel truly memorable. It’s also the photographs of people that usually get the best reaction from family and friends when you return home. So without further ado – 10 tips for better people photography.
Bonus Intro Tip – Common to all genres of [...]
Down and Dirty – Gritty Urban Photography
A couple of weeks ago, Mark Forman posted a new photoessay at his site that feature gritty, urban type post processing. Quite a few people are interested in this type of look, so I decided to create a tutorial that outlines the steps you can take to achieve a similar result.
Five For Friday – Photo Essay Tips
This week on 5 we’re going to look at a few tips for creating photo essays. Humans are naturally drawn to stories and with a little planning, you can create your own photo essay that will wow family, friends and strangers. A photoessay is simply a series of photographs put together that tell a [...]
A Photoshop Tutorial – Levels
My friend Kenneth of Investor Blogger and Obblogatory recently requested some basic Photoshop tutorials. Perhaps the best place to start is with a tutorial on Levels. Make sure you click on the images for a larger version – the small ones don’t fully show the details and color.
For most people, the main objective after [...]
Photographing Fireworks
With the lunar new year fast approaching, one thing you can count on seeing over the next couple of weeks is fireworks. Also, for those of you who live in Chinese cultures, the lantern festival takes place two weeks later. So how do you go about photographing fireworks?
Well, the good news is that it’s [...]
Shooting Pandas
With Taiwan about to go fully “panda crazy” after China’s goodwill gift of two of the endangered animals, I thought it would be a good time to look at a few tips and tactics for zoo photography. As probably everyone in Taiwan will be trying to visit Taipei Zoo this year, take a [...]
Rainbow Smoke
Neil Wade has a pretty sweet lighting tutorial over at his blog that teaches you how to photograph incense smoke and make some cool smoke art. So I thought I’d take it a step further and look at an alternative post-processing method to which results in the below picture.
So lets walk through the steps [...]
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