Making Your Portraits During the Day POP

Tweet One of the trickiest parts of photographing weddings is always dealing with the unpredictable lighting you are dealt with during the day. Since you never have time to setup equipment and have to many times deal with harsh and ugly lighting you are constantly thinking quickly on your feet to get the best shots. [...]

Baby Photography Tips – Never Stop Shooting

Tweet Baby Photography Tips – Never Stop Shooting Babies sometimes can have hundreds of different expressions every hour. Try to capture as many of them as you can. Sometimes you can get too sidetracked with trying to get that perfect “smile” shot. My suggestion is don’t worry about that shot, it will come naturally during [...]

Posing for Bridal Party Photography

Tweet Posing is one of those words that I really never liked. It always reminds me of some uncomfortable pretzel style positioning where every finger, hand, toe is placed just right and really so much just right that the person being photographed looks as uncomfortable as they can be. When I pose my bride and [...]

5 Essential Tips for Professional Looking Portraits

Tweet Today’s post is a guest post from Diane Stec, view more information about her at the bottom of the article. 1) If light is the most important element to a portrait, then the camera is one of the most important tools. Having an expensive camera is not the only way to capture great portraits. [...]

You are only $3 from better skies in outdoor portraits

Tweet This post is a guest post from Bart Zoni who has the website www.leica-boss.com, see more ways to contact him below. Ever wonder how Sports Illustrated gets those awesome skies in their outdoor portraits? This easy and inexpensive trick will set you on your way to awesome vibrant skies in outdoor portraits just like [...]

Photography Tip – Learning to see with new eyes

Tweet Tweet Photography Tip – Learning to see with new eyes I have been working on an article on how the camera ‘see’ differently than our eyes. There are so many differences between the human eye and the camera that having a good understanding of these differences really do help us in our photography. While [...]

Creating portraits at sunset

Tweet One of the most beautiful types of light that I love to photograph portraits during is sunsets. The amazing colors in the sky and the way that clouds just soak up the array of colors is always inspiring to me. And although the sunset on its own is beautiful I love to photograph portraits [...]

Photographing Portraits in the Sun

Tweet One of the biggest challenges photographing weddings can be shooting in the middle of the day with lighting that is far less than ideal. Sometimes you are photographing in open sun without any shade and have to find just the right way to get an amazing shot. I always think of it as one [...]

Photographing in outdoor shade

Tweet Not all shade is created equal. Learning to see all of the very intricate differences in light and the quality of light can be one of the best things to learn. I am continually learning to see light in a new way and constantly have to train my brain to see things as the [...]

Framing the shot

Tweet Today I want to chat a little bit about framing our images, and when I am talking about framing I don’t mean slapping on a garish gold victorian frame on your photos but composing your images to frame in key elements. I have talked before about using dodge and burn in Photoshop to focus [...]