Surfing barren lands – Creative Portrait Photography

Our shot of the week this week comes from Fashion photographer David Kutcher. I think this image is a great example of the importance of having an idea before shooting. Since he put this image together after the shoot in post production if there wasn’t a clear vision before this would have never turned [...]

Baby Photography 101

I am so stoked to have my 3rd iPad app finished and waiting for apple to approve! I started writing a few mini books awhile back to help educate photographers wanting to start shooting weddings or portraits. There are so many questions I get from people that normally are the same questions people have [...]

10 Amazing macro photography images

To give everyone some fresh inspiration for our current photo contest “You best Macro shot” here are 10 amazing macro images. I think one of the most amazing things about Macro photography is it’s lets you see what your eye normally doesn’t. There is so much beauty in the details, sometimes in the [...]

Shooting Digital Infrared Photos

We covered the basics of Infrared photography and shooting with infrared film awhile back and as a follow up I wanted to go over how to shoot infrared images with a DSLR. You can read our previous article here: How to do infrared photography.
Today I am going to focus on how your digital [...]

Off camera lighting for weddings

Sometimes I love shooting a bride and groom at night. When you get to use all artificial light, you can get get so creative and really have some fun with the shoot. Sometimes when photographing a wedding you always don’t have a lot of time set aside to shoot images of the bride [...]

Getting better portraits – include the enviornment

One way to improve your portraits is to capture more of the environment in the shot. This can help tell the story of your subject and by working in the right background document a part of their life. Sometimes taking a few steps back and including more of the environment can really [...]

paper negative photography

I created a series of work years ago using a “paper negative” method that always has intrigued me. I’ll share my experiences later on but have a guest post today from an artist who uses this process often. There are a few different ways of doing Paper Negative prints but the main concept [...]

Shot of the Week – Setting Silhouettes

Our shot of the week this week comes from Dennis at DZ Photography. Silhouettes can be a great way to give your client something different and an artistic way to set your work apart. Check our Dennis shot below and some info about show he created the shot!

“Setting Silhouettes”
Just as I was [...]

How to do infrared photography

Last week we did an article with some amazing examples of infrared photography “infrared photography – 16 amazing shots” and today I want to go over some how to’s to get you started with infrared photography.
First there are a lot of different ways to try and get an infrared look to your images, but to [...]

Fusion – photography and video part 1

A few weeks ago I posted on how I have been working on adding “fusion” videos to our services this year. You can read my post about why here: DSLR Video and fusion photography. I must admit that I knew there would be certain obstacles to get over but had a pretty [...]

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