Photography Basics
The Photography basics category of our site will give you a foundation for your photography education. While many of these are considered beginner or 101 tips and tutorials, they are essential to your understanding of photography.
Why Are Some People In My Group Portraits So Soft? – Q&A with Matthew Saville
Question: What is the best way to get family portraits in focus, without totally sacrificing shallow DOF? Sometimes people on ...
Getting Creative With Lens Flare
As photographers, we are creative beings. I’m a strong believer that it’s our creativity and artistic talents that separate each ...
How To Photograph A Meteor Shower – The 2013 Perseids
For those of you who don’t know, (and for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere) the Perseid meteor shower ...
Use Foreground Objects to Add Interest to Your Sports Images
One of the biggest problems when shooting sports is that it can get to be very repetitive. After a few games into each season all of your shots can start to look the same.
Golden Gate Bridge Sunset Panorama – How We Shot It
This image was captured from the observation deck / bar of the Bank of America Building in San Francisco. The view from up there is stunning, if you are ever interested in finding this perspective it is available to the public, as long as you are dressed "appropriately" for an elite (and expensive!) bar scene...
The Milky Way in Rhyolite Ghost Town – How We Shot It
Even though my full-time job is wedding photography, my photographic hobby is the polar opposite! I enjoy photographing nightscapes in the desert, the more remote the better! Here is a relatively easy-access location, Rhyolite Ghost Town, which is just outside of Death Valley National Park. I have been photographing this bank's cement skeleton now since 2005, and it never disappoints!
Android App Highlight: Easy Release
As a professional photographer on of the things that you really should be doing is getting model releases from anyone that you photograph. In case you do not know, a Model release (in its simplest form) is a legal document that the model and photographer sign that states that the photographer retains the copyright on the images.
