How to Photograph Tulips
April 21, 2013 by Mark Pouley
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
Tweet Todays article is a guest post by Mark Pouley It takes a special photograph of a flower to be considered unique or original. Still, their color and splendor are a siren song drawing photographers to capture their beauty. Where I live this phenomenon is magnified during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The annual display [...]
Our 700th Photography Article
Tweet I always post a little recap when we hit 100 articles on the site. For me it really just blows my mind how fast time flys by and also is fun to take a minute to sit back and see some of the top posts we had over the past few months. I have [...]
Understanding camera lenses: Add more creative control to digital photography
June 8, 2012 by Mark
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Tweet Understanding camera lenses: Add more creative control to digital photography A guest post by Alia Haley In order to add better creative control over your digital photography, it is important to understand the camera lenses. Selecting a right lens for your camera is daunting task since you have to consider a number of factors [...]
The Art of Wedding Photography – Ignore the Competition
May 26, 2012 by Mark
Filed under Business & Marketing
Tweet The Art of Wedding Photography – Ignore the Competition Today’s post is part of a series I have been working on that will come out piece by piece over the next month about wedding photography. Wedding photography just like any other type of photography, is an art form first and foremost. It’s one thing [...]
What to charge for your photography slideshows
March 21, 2012 by Mark
Filed under Business & Marketing
Tweet When I first started offering slideshows years ago I was excited about the extra impact that music and good transitions gave my work and started to do these for my wedding work. The first question I started to get from many other photographers who I showed these to was “cool, those look great. How [...]
Your Photography Questions Answered
Tweet I always love to answer your photography questions, its really what started the idea of this site and I think is a great way to get some of the top issues that people are dealing with in the open and answered for everyone. Today I am going to cover a few questions that came [...]
Photography Workshop Poll
Tweet I am getting ready to finalize our summer photography workshop schedule and wanted to get some feedback from everyone. I currently offer 2 different workshops, one for wedding photography and one 1/2 day marketing workshop. The wedding workshop covers many things from getting started, gear used, shooting techniques with a shoot, post production and [...]
Vote for the best image in our Travel Photography Contest
Tweet Our latest contest for the Best Travel Photo has now been closed for entries and open for voting. Thanks everyone for submitting your images we got many great photos submitted this time! Like many of our contests there will be a few winners, you can vote and the fan favorite will win a $100 [...]
Digital Composites in Photoshop
December 18, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Tweet With the ability that Photoshop has to have multiple layers it really opens up an unlimited amount of creative control you have. I love working in Lightroom to edit images but when I really want to create something that is a higher level of creativity i’ll open up Photoshop. With layers you can combine [...]
What would you like to learn with your photography?
Tweet The main goal of this site is to help us all become better photographers, but as we all know there are so many different aspects of photography. We try and cover a broad range of topics and always look to have relevant information no matter what type of photography you specalize in. But to [...]




