Most people live in an urban environment. It may be a metropolis or a small town, but it provides the same things: human interaction and human-made structures. Picking up a camera and photographing urban landscapes around you is a logistic-free photo set up with a broad variety of subject matters. However, it’s not as easy as it sounds. So here …
Try Black and White Portrait Photography
Next to landscape photography, portrait photography is one of the most popular photographic genres. Photographing people will always be inspiring, motivating, and thrilling. Human nature has endless faces and provides stunning opportunities for photographers. So why would you limit your options by trying black-and-white portrait photography? The easy answer is that sometimes less is more. By giving up color, you …
Get Started with Real Estate Photography
Each photographic genre has its challenges, secrets, and fans. Although they use the same medium, they focus on different aspects of human reality, convey different messages, and suit different photographers. Real estate photography is a commercial genre and doesn’t leave much room for artistic freedom. Nonetheless, real estate photographers prove artistry, imagination, and an eye for detail. Here is everything …
Autumn Photography Inspiration (and not just for Landscapes)
Autumn colors have become so popular they are almost a cliché. Where better to look for them than in nature, surrounded by endless landscapes? Whether you go to the park nearby, get lost in a wild forest, or climb mountains, you will find a beautiful autumn-related subject for your landscape photography. However, other photographic genres can equally benefit from the …
Wedding Photography Mistakes
When weddings are in season, the lives of wedding photographers become hectic. To keep things under control, honor scheduled events, and deliver photographs and photo albums on time, many wedding photographers automate their tasks, skip any meeting they can skip, and use the same to-do list for all their events. The result is disappointing: similar photos with a commercial and …
Photo Editing Apps for iPad
Let’s face it: not all photographers need the advanced technology and outstanding features of complex photo editors, such as Capture One, Exposure, Luminar, and Photoshop. For most of us, photo editing is a 4-step process of applying a few simple and subtle adjustments. We want to retouch our photos, but we don’t need image manipulation tools, complex masks and selections, …
How to Capture Warm Weather in Your Photographs
It’s summer, It’s sunny, and it’s warm. It’s the perfect weather for taking photographs. Nonetheless, your photos don’t seem to capture the warmth and look like they could be taken in any other season. The viewer should instantly know these are summer photos and be immersed in the hot summer atmosphere. Whether you shoot indoors or outdoors, the following tips …
How to Use Adobe Color in Photography
Color theory is no stranger for photographers because color is an essential ingredient in photography composition. You already use complementary and analogous colors, take advantage of color contrast, and enhance the visual story with the meaning and weight of colors. Nonetheless, is there a tool other than the color wheel to help you understand colors and their relationships and provide …
Five Situations When You Shouldn’t Take Photos
We talk so much about finding outstanding subject matters that no one has photographed before and about capturing unique moments that we forget there are also situations when taking photos is a really bad idea. You may be photographing the world from your window or visiting an exotic place. You may be thinking it will be the shot of your …
A Photography History Lesson – Leica Cameras
Leica cameras are iconic. Ask any professional or amateur photographer, the most famous camera manufacturer, and they will say Leica. Henri Cartier-Bresson had used a Leica M3 camera and a 50mm lens for almost his entire career. Garry Winogrand made a good pair with Leica M4. In the 1990s, Annie Leibovitz chose to experiment with her projects on a Leica …