Understanding camera lenses: Add more creative control to digital photography

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 [...]

Amazing Golden Gate Bridge Photos

Tweet Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary for the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge is one of the most photographed monuments on the west coast and a work of art. Every time I drive over the bridge there is a little sense of childhood amazement, it’s a beautiful creation and located around so much natural beauty [...]

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. I 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 [...]

A quick look back at 2011

Tweet I have been posting a few review posts this week showcasing some of our top posts that we have had this year and today just wanted to share some additional thoughts on 2011. In 2011 there was a lot of growth with this website and lots of wonderful connections I have made on the [...]

Some of our most shared photography articles

Tweet As another year is about to be wrapped up I have been spending some time thinking back and reflecting on 2011. What a crazy year for me in many ways, it flew by in a flash and I am amazed and humbled at how fast this site has been growing. As what started as [...]

Some amazing work on 500px.com

Tweet If you haven’t heard of 500px.com yet, you might have been under a rock for the last few years. They were actually started way before many would think, back in the same year Flickr went live in 2004. It has never had close to the number of users that Flickr had but has always [...]

WPPI 2012 Speakers Announced

Tweet I can’t believe that we are almost in 2012! When I got the announcement the other day that registration was open for WPPI and the speakers announced I couldn’t believe it. I have made it to many of the WPPI shows in the past, I think last year was my 7th year (out of [...]

Wedding Photography Tips – Impact For Getting Ready Photos

Tweet Weddings are emotional days and there never is a shortage of emotions to capture at a wedding. From the wedding vows to the emotional dance with the father of the bride there are emotions happening all day long that give us plenty of moments to capture. One of my favorite parts of the day [...]

A Collection of Some Amazing Bokeh Photos

Tweet The term bokeh comes from the Japanese term boke which means blur. It’s a characteristic of many good portrait photos where you have a nice sharp subject and then a beautiful soft background. Generally images that have good bokeh are taken with lenses that have a very large aperture like a 85mm 1.2 lens. [...]

Some Awesome Photos of Stars

Tweet We can find so much inspiration in nature and I am always amazed when I remember to take a few minutes on a nice clear night and look up to the sky. The large expanse of the universe and glowing stars just amaze me sometimes, it’s such a beautiful thing to stare at and [...]

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