When you see videos of the early developers of photography, its pretty funny especially in light of photography today. In those old movies, to get a picture, the camera was as big as a computer is today. The photographer had to put his head under a sheet and hold up a huge tripod [...]
More Than Pictures - Memories
When you are hired to be the photographer for someones wedding, it is quite an honor. For a professional photographer, we can sometimes just see it as another gig. But it pays to look at the event through the eyes of the wedding party, the parents, the siblings, the groom and above [...]
Lighting Tips For Photography Artificial Light.
Photography is art. Individuals will spend hours in museums and galleries analyzing a persons photographs for the meaning. Like painting photographs have a message, sometimes it will evoke sadness, happiness, a carefree attitude, and thought. There are many techniques a budding photographer will learn to evoke the emotions they desire. One [...]
Lighting Tips For Photography
Photography requires a few skills to make your prints look professional. One part of making a print professional is lighting. Lighting in photography takes a little planning and understanding of a few techniques. You best subject or object might not turn out that way if the proper light does not help to [...]
Keeping it Legal
Have you ever been watching a video or a show that includes public shots and some of the faces seem to be blurred out? No, that is not poor production values on the part of the video team. That is because the producers who eventually sold that video to be used commercially did [...]
Is Photography Art?
The controversy about whether photography is art is one that has been raging in the art world for a long time and we are not likely to totally solve it here. But it can be an important decision you have to make if you are considering a career in photography with the goal of [...]
Insider Tricks to Create a Great Wedding Video.
If you have been hired to create a video of someones wedding and reception, it can be a really fun job. Not only is there a lot of joy, laughing and fun moments during a wedding celebration but it is really gratifying to know that the video you are creating will be part of [...]
In Praise of Digital Photography
In any discipline, you will have what many think of as the purists. Purists are those who revere the way things have always been done and view new innovations in the field as upstarts and obviously of poorer quality than the tried and true methods.
This is nowhere more true than photography. For decades [...]
How To Create A Professional Landscape Photograph
Landscape photography is widely popular. I am sure if you look around your home you will see at least two landscape prints that spoke to you. Photography is an art that has a message. As a photographer you have to find the message you want to portray. If you specialize in [...]
How Hard Can it Be to Take Our Own Wedding
How Hard Can it Be to Take Our Own Wedding Pictures?
Your wedding is fast approaching and as the anxiety grows in everyone associated with the big day, two big concerns weigh on everybodys mind. Those are
(1) How can we reduce the stress of this big day?
(2) How can we cut the costs?
These two questions [...]
