Archive for July, 2008
3 Ingredients To Becoming A Better Photographer
Earlier we asked our readers in the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group to give us some of their best one sentence photography tips and we had a great response! For the next few weeks I’ll be elaborating, in my own words, what those photo tips mean to me and how they can help you become [...]
A Different Kind Of Focus
Earlier we asked our readers in the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group to give us some of their best one sentence photography tips and we had a great response! For the next few weeks I’ll be elaborating, in my own words, what those photo tips mean to me and how they can help you become [...]
See The Shadows
We asked our readers in the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group to give us some of their best one sentence photography tips and we had a great response! For the next few weeks I’ll be elaborating, in my own words, what those photo tips mean to me and how they can help you become a [...]
Weekend Perusing: The Way I See It
This week’s “Featured Photoblog” is The Way I See It by Gareth Glynn Ash. Gareth has a great sense for telling stories through his photographs and lets his personality come through in the text as well. Some of my favorite lines in the blog come about when he photographs a flower and says [...]
Fill The Frame
Earlier we asked our readers in the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group to give us some of their best one sentence photography tips and we had a great response! For the next few weeks I’ll be elaborating, in my own words, what those photo tips mean to me and how they can help you [...]
16 Quick Tips For New Photographers!
Over the weekend I asked our readers in the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group to provide a one sentence tip for new photographers. As you can see, we have some really fantastic people involved in our little community. One of my favorite things about the group is the wealth of knowledge and help [...]
Weekend Perusing: Big Thank You!
This week’s “Featured Photoblog” is Jen Rinaldi Photography! The reason I wanted to highlight her photoblog is because it shows us how different photoblogs can do different things. Jen uses the photoblog to increase her web presence as a photographer, therefore increasing her exposure as an authoritative figure for photography in her area. [...]
Camera Lucida Book Review
Our first book in the Your Photo Tips Photography Book Club is Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. In hindsight (which is of course 20/20) I could have gone with a book that was easier to consume, but that’s not really my style. One of the most important pieces of literature about photography Camera [...]
Using A Flash Outdoors
Want to know one of the biggest secrets that professional photographers use to get better pictures in outdoor photography? They use a flash!
I know, it sounds simple and truthfully it is… sort of.
We discussed using a flash outdoors before in Easy Lighting Tips For Outdoor Photography but I thought we could get a little [...]
Weekend Perusing: Discovered Artists!
This week’s “Featured Photoblog” is on hold for a special announcement.
No, I’m not talking about the iPhone. The camera on the new iPhone wasn’t even upgraded. Seriously!?
Today is the official launch of DiscoveredArtists.com website.
Disclaimer: I am honored to be a Founding Artist at DiscoveredArtists.com.
Here’s the Press Release from last month -
NEWEST ART MARKETPLACE [...]
Bokeh
Most people don’t realize exactly how new the term Bokeh, as pertaining to photography, really is (it was probably coined around the late 1990’s). Derived from the Japanese word bokeaji meaning “fuzzy”, bokeh refers to the area of a photograph that is out of focus. That’s it. Simple really.
Often, however, you will [...]
Buying Tripods: Simplified
We’ve talked about why tripods are important before in 6 Tips To Getting Super Sharp Photographs so let’s take a look at finding that right tripod for you.
Tripods come in all shapes, color, sizes, and of course prices. So when meandering through this enormous maze, how does one choose the right tripod? There [...]
Weekend Perusing: 4th Of July!
This week’s “Featured Photoblog” is Michael Palmer Photography. When you look at Michael’s photoblog you get a sense that he loves photography. Now sure, any person that keeps up with a photoblog would have to love photography, but with Michael’s there is a true sense of passion. He shows works done for [...]
Is Flickr A Blog Killer?
With all of the news of Yahoo! Executives making quick exits including Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield I pondered (along with many others) the future of Flickr itself. Would Yahoo! continue to keep Flickr running or even possibly add something new (not much has been done with Flickr since the aquisition of [...]
