6 Must Have Food Photography Props to Give Your Images Something Extra
When it comes to photographing your food, it’s all about setting the “right” scene. If you want your honey baked ham or apple pie to make your Instagram followers salivate with envy, well then expert food photographer, Andrew Scrivani has a few tips & props that will…
How Photographers Can Make Extra Money During The Holidays
While we’ve already established that it’s perfectly ok to take a break during the holiday season, the raw reality is that a lot of creative types literally can’t afford to do that. Bills need to be paid, gifts need to be purchased, and tax season…
Searching for Soul in Portrait Photography
The most successful portraits take us well beyond the surface of how someone looks and show us the inner essence of who someone is. They reveal character, soul, and depth. They uncover hidden hopes and inner strength, revealing that authentic and deeply human light that…
Permission to Fear: How Brooke Shaden Became a Fine Art Photographer
Booke Shaden, known for her otherworldly imagery, found herself — and her work — not by trying to overcome fear, but by trying instead to explore it. Hear her story.
The Photography Experience Of The Summer
The most basic requirement of taking a good photo is having a camera and for 100 years Olympus has been dedicated to getting as many people taking pictures as possible. Now they’re going one step further by teaming up with CreativeLive for an immersive online…
The Cheaters Guide to Photographing Fireworks
Image by Derek Key on Flickr Regardless of where in the United States you might be, when the fireworks explode over the skies, you can bet that around you, there will be a see of onlookers, cooing in amazement with their iPhones in hand. Of…
Own Your Title: Why It’s Time to Call Yourself an Artist
If you’re in the process of trying to become a working artist, is it okay to start calling yourself one? Impostor Syndrome — the feeling that your success at various ventures is a fluke or a mistake, rather than the product of your own competence — is…
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My Business
I got to thinking about a few things I wish I knew before starting my business. Yes, I wish I knew more about the technicality of photography (wait, so you’re telling me f-stop and aperture ARE THE SAME THINGS?!? Still asking yourself, ‘What is aperture?’…
Fix Old Photos With This One Easy Photoshop Trick
Do you know that strange red tint on all of the photos in your family albums? It has a name – it’s called a color cast. Most old pictures have one, and if you scan and upload them to Photoshop, you can easily do away…
Why We Use Photoshop: Top Photographers Explain
Thanks to blogs like Photoshop Disasters and the many, many err in editing judgment it points out, use of the Adobe photo-editing software has become something of a punchline. But Photoshop itself isn’t the problem; it’s how the tool is used, and by whom. For…
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