Articles by: Hanna Brooks Olsen

[caption id="attachment_4703" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo by Izzy Hudgins in partnership with with French Knot Studios for RuffledBlog[/caption] In 2018, you couldn’t attend a corporate event, a party, or a wedding without being handed a plastic mustache on a stick and getting pulled into a photo booth. Photo booth companies – like our friends at the Slow Motion Booth – got creative with their offerings, breathing new life into the old carnival staple.

“A lot of people don’t know that there are editing apps,” says Diane, which are usually either free or inexpensive and can help adjust the color and other elements of your photos. Todd and Diane recommend VSCO, Snapseed, and Photoshop Express.

[caption id="attachment_9299" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Felix Kunze[/caption] Perfect natural lighting is the photographer's holy grail -- it's usually the most flattering, requires the least re-touching, and is generally preferred, especially in portraiture. Unfortunately, the golden hour usually lasts less than a full 60 minutes, and on top of that, if you're always waiting for perfect natural lighting, there's a good chance your photo shoots may last days when they could be wrapped up in hours.

[caption id="attachment_15887" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: Roberto Valenzuela[/caption] Wedding photographers have a big job ahead of them. Not only are they involved in multiple shoots with their subjects (engagement, save-the-date, actual wedding day.

Try new photography challenges to grow your skills and have fun. We dare you.

Residents of and visitors to the United States have, in part, outdoor photographers to thank for our extensive, beautiful system of protected, maintained national parks. It was conservation photographers like Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams who, throughout the years, impressed upon legislators the importance of setting aside these beautiful swaths of the country for future generations to enjoy.