Selling Your Images As Art: 5 Tips To Getting Started
As photographers, the highest compliment we can be paid is to have someone pay us for our vision and creativity. For some, this means becoming wedding or portrait photographers, getting paid per event...
View ArticleShooting in the Twilight Zone
For most photographers, the best time to shoot is during the golden hours – those times right around sunrise or sunset when the sky is full of drama. For me though, the best time to shoot is a little...
View ArticleLet Them Run Around: Photographing Children
The girl in this photo was like the Energizer bunny- she wouldn’t sit still! This photo was taken as part of a family portrait session. The posed shots were challenging because three young children...
View ArticleShowing Speed: Using Panning When Shooting Action
Panning is a great way to capture children at play. Exposure is 1/15, f/13, ISO 100. Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF 24-105 f/4L IS at 84mm. For the most part, photography is all about freezing a moment...
View Article27 Beautiful Black and White Portraits
Following are 27 beautiful black and white portraits to inspire you to take some portraits this week – enjoy! Click on images to learn more about it and the photographer behind it on their Flickr page....
View ArticlePhotographing Baby {Months Five and Six}
This is the third in a series by I Heart Faces Contributor Keli Hoskins on photographing your baby. You can read the first two tutorials here: Capturing Baby – First Two Months Capturing Baby –...
View Articledown at the sea again
I checked my blog today and was surprised to see that it’s been two weeks since I posted anything. I do have quite a few shots left over from last year, but the more I look at them the less I like...
View ArticleHow To Achieve Nice Bokeh [In Plain English]
By Annie Tao Want to take portraits that have nice bokeh? First, what is it? BOKEH = noun. a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image. Below is...
View Article6 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity
No matter what your artistic interests, whether photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, etc., the underlying force behind your work is creativity. It’s much easier to talk about technical aspects...
View Article100 Clever Digital Photography Ideas [Book Review]
One of my faves is lists of ‘clever’ ideas and hints on how to improve your digital photography, so this book hit home immediately. Author Cope recalls that ‘there was a time, not so long ago, when...
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