It’s summer, it’s sunny, 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 immerse in the hot summer atmosphere. Whether you shoot indoors or outdoors, the following tips will help …
HDR Photography Basics
HDR photography is popular among nature photographers and others who work with natural light, such as real estate photographers. That’s because sunlight can create a higher contrast between highlights and shadows than the camera can capture. Exposure compensation may help, but often it’s not enough. You need to expand the camera’s ability to capture dynamic range. And that’s exactly what …
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 …
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 …
Mushroom Photography Tips
It’s that wonderful time of the year when autumn colors fill our hearts and memory cards. But autumn has much more to offer than colorful foliage, spectacular blue skies, and soft golden light. An entire world comes to life deep into the forest. Autumn is the season of mushrooms and, therefore, the best time for mushroom photography. Mushroom photography includes …
Gear for Professional Food Photography
When the food looks great on the plate but not so great in your photographs, it’s time to upgrade your gear. You may have the latest camera model and still not achieve the image quality you want. Sometimes it is not about having a more expensive camera. A few accessories can differentiate between an amateur’s and a professional’s food photographs. …
High-Key Landscape Photography
Landscape photography is a very popular genre. One has to come up with new ideas and fresh perspectives to be acknowledged and successful. There are several approaches you can follow: travel the world to find unique subject matters; use storytelling to exhibit more than beautiful landscapes (e.g. climate change, environmental issues, etc.); transform landscapes into fine art by creating a …
5 Reasons to Choose Nature Photography
Nature photography connects the photographers with the environment and allows them to present the world as it is. Many focus on the unseen or overlooked parts of the world, such as tiny insects or remote locations. Others focus on the damage people make to their planet. However, all nature photographers reveal the beauty of nature, its remarkable strengths, and the …
Four Steps to Photograph Silhouettes
We call a silhouette a dark shape on a bright background. The silhouette is the subject of the photograph but we hide all its characteristics and emphasize its shape. A powerful silhouette effect tells a story and invites the viewer to connect and take part. The shape of the subject is easily recognizable and the background is clear and appealing. …