I’ve been frequently asked to help take pictures (with a smartphone) simply because I’m a photographer and therefore MUST make better pictures than those coming from an average joe. Probably not always true, but I feel that there are some elements to know that could help everyone take better pictures
Often I’ll end up visiting a bookstore to check out fun coffee table books and photography books. I have to have something for my home that will help guests be converted to taking pictures! So there I was, looking at a table of neatly piled and organized books when I
Blunders. Mistakes. Doing too much or too little. It happens to most of us when we start out. Here are some that beginners typically do when post-processing portraits. As you read this, think back to when you were beginning photography. I’m sure you’ll be able to relate to this yourself
I took the time to read comments on this site, as well as a few other sites and found that there are some terms that need some clarification for use in the photo world. Some are quite comical, and some are just plainly mistakenly used in place of another term.
Is there a term for the photographer’s equivalent to writer’s block? I’m not sure but l was in a creative rut for the majority of last year. It was a struggle to find the energy to shoot and I couldn’t find the motivation. I took a double dose of it
A feature that I’ve been waiting what seems like decades for has finally hit the web! I haven’t heard much about this, but it’s a pretty big thing in my opinion. From the web interface of www.instagram.com, you can now post your pictures from a computer! All you’d have to
If you want to get serious about shooting calculated photoshoots, get yourself off Auto White Balance! The camera usually does a great job at analyzing the lighting scenario and chooses a suitable color temperature when it is set to AWB. The problem is that setting it to auto lets the
As much as I try to keep my workflow minimal and simplistic, sometimes there are other pieces of software that I’d like to use that don’t seamlessly integrate with Lightroom Classic. When you use a third-party program to edit a picture outside of Lightroom’s knowledge, it doesn’t have a chance
OK, so here’s the deal. You know that little lock switch on the side of your SD cards? The one that you move to lock the card from being written on? Well, it works. It works really well. Almost too well on some occasions — like when that little lock switch
What seems to be a misused phrase in the photography community is being made increasingly more confusing by those who don’t understand what they’re saying. In a conversation I had with an aspiring photographer about his editing process on a particular image, he shared some usual color correction tips and
There are so many options for hard drives at the moment that it can be super confusing, slow performing or even money draining if you make uninformed decisions. Not all hard drives are created equally. Although the marketing that’s out there doesn’t always seem to help consumers figure out what’s
Acer has been stepping up their game by entering a slew of options for digital creators to their line of gaming laptops. The ConceptD 7 is one of their 15″ variants that boasts some screaming hardware and a 4K screen geared toward accurate color. At a price point that’s competitive
