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 [...]
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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 [...]
History Of Photography
Have you ever wondered where modern photography originated? While we are now moving into the digital age and away from film, the lighting techniques and other photography techniques began in the 1820s. Niepce and Daguerre were the first inventors of modern photography. They used a chemical component from silver and chalk, which darkens when exposed [...]
Have You Seen The Latest Street Photography
One of the most candid styles of photography is street photography. It consists of candid pictures taken of people in public situations. Street photography was done everywhere on the street and now has moved to the mall, at clubs, streets, parks, and practically anywhere. A street photographer never asks anyone to pose, [...]
Getting Your Groove Back.
Creative photography may be the most demanding of them all. That is because unlike commercial photography, your boss is your creative imagination and the artistic marketplace. And who knows from one week to the next what is considered artistic and what isnt.
It isnt just poetic license that we are using when we [...]
Getting the Best Possible Audio from a Camcorder
When you move from photography to videography as your means of capturing moments either personally or as part of your profession, you enter into a much bigger world with greater challenges as well. For one thing, you now have to deal with issues of movement. The problems of lighting and surface noise are [...]
Getting that Baby on Film
In the many types of photography you may have to do as a photographer, baby shots may be the most difficult. Even if you are not a professional photographer but you are trying to get a great looking portrait of your own child, getting them to cooperate is a major undertaking.
The first rule to [...]