Shooting Tips

6 Tips to Executing Your Planned Photo Shoot — Be Your Own Art Director Series Part 2

Tanya Goodall Smith

Tips for executing a planned photoshoot from my own experience and from what I've seen others do. Take what works in your situation and use it to improve your photo shoots..

3 Things To Improve Your Photography Results For Little To No Money

Kishore Sawh

Some of the things that make the biggest impact on your photo work are things that require more thinking and less buying. It's improvement on the cheap.

Simple Natural Light Swimwear Shot | How I Shot It

Kishore Sawh

You shouldn't be afraid of the sun, and to tame it you needn't much gear. This photo was taken with a DIY reflector and minimal equipment and gets a lot of attention.

4 Tips On Creating Stunning Beauty Images With A One Light Setup

Miguel Quiles

In this first episode, I set out to explain my process behind capturing this beauty look that I absolutely love, using just a single light and a reflector.

How to Create the Perfect Hero Shot in Broad Daylight

Lindsey Chu

Using the Profoto B1, Pye is able to chisel out his subjects in a visually complex scene. Here's how he shot it.

Solving A Common Off-Camera Flash Problem: The Black Band

Kishore Sawh

If you are or ever find a black bar on the top or bottom of your image when using flash, this is likely what's going on, and how to solve it.

Become a More Creative Photographer | 8 Tech Tricks to Experiment With in 2016

Lauchlan Toal

As 2015 comes to a close, we're all thinking about our plans and goals for 2016. Many of these goals are big picture things - get more clients, improve your website, make more time for photos with family. It’s great to have these overarching, guiding goals in mind. It’s also worth thinking about smaller things, fun things.

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Useful Wildlife Photography Tips And Editing Fog Techniques {How I Shot It}

Max Bridge

Some useful wildlife photography tips for shooting in dense fog as well as some editing advice. Check out how I shot (and edited) an unconventional wildlife photo.

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Not Your Typical Product Photography Image | How I Shot This Floating Adidas Shoe

Max Bridge

This photo is far more complex than it may first appear. With this very in-depth "How I Shot It," I hope to give you a good idea of how it was accomplished.

Utilizing Direct Sun

Utilizing Direct Sun To Photograph Details In (Ugly, Unflattering, Boring…) Places

Easton Reynolds

Working with direct sun can be tough at first but it's well worth it. How many times have you walked into a getting ready location only to find that it's not as amazing as you imagined it in your head?

13 Photographers Share Their One Liners Guaranteed To Elicit Genuine Emotion

Pye

I've spent hundreds of hours studying posing and education from incredible photographers around the world. I wanted to know how they posed, how they communicated, and what enabled them to get consistently incredible emotions and images out of their shoots.

Tips for Photographing Kids with Special Needs, From Photography Experts (Part 2)

Tanya Goodall Smith

Specific advice, tips and tricks from photography industry experts on photographing kids with special needs.