Archive for December, 2008

Light & Exposure [Book Review]

Described as a pragmatic guide for digital photographers looking for a creative way to explore the world, Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers really emphasizes that equipment alone won’t help you capture compelling images. Of course this is a topic we speak about often here at Your Photo Tips.

Readers Questions In A Flash

I often get emails about lighting.
Is lighting really that important?
What’s off camera flash all about?
What’s up with this whole strobist thing?
How do I get better pictures, I don’t have a budget for “professional gear”?
In a blanket effort to answer all of these questions I start with my own:
So how did the use of artificial lighting [...]

The Visual Journey in Photography

“The term visualization refers to the entire emotional-mental process of creating a photograph, and as such, it is one of the most important concepts in photography” Ansel Adams – The Camera
So what exactly is visualization in photography and how can we hope to achieve it?
Perhaps we take a look at photography in it’s purest form.  [...]

Photography and History Collide

“The wish to capture evanescent reflections is not only impossible, as has been shown by thorough German investigation, but the mere desire alone, the will to do so, is blasphemy. God created man in His own image, and no man-made machine may fix the image of God.” German publication Leipziger Stadtanzeiger – 1839
This was [...]

50 Truly Awesome Photos (from the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group)

I couldn’t do this website without all of you in the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group.
Here are some of my favorite photographs from you, our readers, over this past year.
50 Truly Awesome Photos (from the Your Photo Tips.com Flickr Group)
Enjoy!

The Photographer’s Bill of Rights

As photographers we are a visual species.  We love to look at things and photograph them as well as showing off our photography.  This is all good and well, but there may come a time when you wish to actually submit a photo into a photo competition.  Now whether this is just a small single [...]

100 +1 Best Photography Blogs, Websites, Podcasts, and Magazines of 2008

Throughout the year I’ve seen many blogs and websites on photography come and go. This list, while not completely comprehensive, is comprised of the websites and blogs that have made it into and stayed in my feed reader or that I regularly visited throughout the year.
The Criteria:

entertaining
informative
educational
inspirational
consistent
creative

The photography websites, photography blogs, photography podcasts, and [...]

The Formal Bride and Groom Portrait

We haven’t much talked about Wedding Photography here at Your Photo Tips because initially this website was started to help new photographers learn the craft of photography. I do get emails from people, albeit sporadically, about help on their first wedding assignment and I’m heading to Florida to shoot a wedding next summer so [...]

December Photo Contest

This month’s photo contest theme is “giving” as chosen by last month’s winner fashiongreenteabags. She’ll also be helping me choose the winner for this month’s prize.
Thanks to our sponsor EDGE Tech Corp for providing the prize of a 1 GB SD Card for this months prize.  To see more products like SD memory or [...]