Photography Tips
You want to learn something about cameras? Is there a technical aspect related to photography that you do not fully comprehend? Well, open your eyes, pay attention, and we will explain everything there is to know about whatever boggles your mind, with the help of our insightful tutorials!
Want Guaranteed Perfect Focus In Every Photo? Learn To Use Selective Focus
Do You Want Guaranteed Perfect Focus In Every Photo? Learn To Use Selective Focus Focus and exposure are the two most important elements in photography. Exposure is discussed a lot, but with technological advances, and the creation of auto focus mode, many people have gone to trusting the camera to do the focusing for you.…
How to Eliminate Background Distractions in Photoshop
How to Eliminate Background Distractions & Objects in Photoshop There’s a lot to pay attention to during a shoot, no matter what kind of shoot it is. As photographers, we strive to capture the image perfectly in camera. Ideally, we use Photoshop to enhance the already fabulous, unique, decisive moment we have captured, because every…
Find Your Portrait Photography Style
Find Your Portrait Photography Style by Wendy Cunningham Years ago, when I first started shooting, I had no idea what ISO, F-stops, shutter speeds, yada yada… even meant! It was so difficult to grasp how one has to find the perfect balance between the three. It was like learning a foreign language! As I was…
Underwater Pictures & Video Using the Canon G11 Camera
Underwater Pictures Using the Canon G11 Point and Shoot Camera While I am definitely not going to win any major prizes from my vacation snapshots using the Canon G11 Point and Shoot camera with underwater housing, I did have a blast and captured some super fun memories. My kids LOVED that I could put…
Tips for After Your First Portrait Portfolio Building Session: Part 2
Tips for After Your First Portrait Portfolio Building Session by Pamela Topping Yesterday I discussed 7 tips for your 1st portfolio building session. Today I will give you some more ideas on what to do after you photograph your 1st “big shoot.” 1. Learn from Your Photos Examining your images is the best way to…
7 Tips for Your First Portrait Portfolio Building Session: Part 1
7 Tips for Your First Portrait Portfolio Building Session by Pamela Topping Are considering going from hobbyist to professional? If so, you will need a portfolio. One great way to build a portfolio is to offer sessions to family, friends and even people you meet while out. Once you schedule a portfolio building session, here…
Senior Photography: Tips and Tricks on Posing, Locations and More
Senior Photography: Tips and Tricks on Posing, Locations and More With Fall coming, photographers are getting ready for photograph high school seniors again. This style of photography is very popular in the United States and is starting to gain presence in other countries. I’m back with another compilation of links to great MCP Actions Blog…
How Photographers Can Respect Music Copyrights and Licensing Fees
How Photographers Can Respect Music Copyrights and Licensing Fees What if you stumbled upon a website when you were surfing the web and there was an amazing image of a beautiful little girl. It happens to be that the website is selling a service. But you look closer and you discover it is YOUR picture!…
Ask Deb ~ Answers to Your Photography Questions From a Professional Photographer
Have you ever wanted to ask a professional photographer your photography questions? Deb Schwedhelm will answer some questions posed on the MCP Facebook Page, in this installment of “Ask Deb.” If you have more questions, please leave them in the comment section for a future installment. How do you handle clients that want to see…
6 Easy Tips for Photographing Grown Men
Photographing Men And you thought photographing kids was hard… Try men. In my guest post, 5 Foolproof Tips for Photographing Children, there were a lot of inquiries about photographing grown men. So here we have some great ideas on photographing men from a woman’s point of view. In my experience, it’s been a little harder…
What is a Professional Photographer in the Digital Photography Age?
What is a Professional Photographer in the Digital Photography Age? In the age of digital photography, when anyone can go to the nearest discount store and buy an SLR camera and Photoshop or Elements, the lines between professional, amateur and hobbyist photographer are blurring. Years ago, when I was a kid, the definition of a…
5 Photography Tips to Make the Most out of Any Location
5 Photography Tips to Make the Most out of Any Location My clients sometimes tell me that their wedding or reception location isn’t the most beautiful for formal photography. When there just isn’t time to photograph at the [insert beautiful location] that is 10 miles away, I always reassure them and tell them that we…
Sun Flare: How to Achieve This Special Light
I’ll admit it… I’m addicted to sun flare, especially a good sunburst. I’m secretly quite proud when I achieve it, especially since it required actually remembering the tips I read about creating it in the first place. Perhaps you are like me and scour the internet for all things photography related and end up only…
Photography Tips: Shooting in Full Sun at any time of the Day
Shooting in full sun…..yikes, it strikes fear in the heart of many! It’s not as easy as overcast skies but sunlight adds specularity and contrast to a photograph that a flat overcast day will never yield. So, let’s start with shooting in the middle part of the day. It’ll never be as good as shooting…
Pricing Photography: Too High? Too Low?
Pricing Photography: How high should you be prices be? Last week I ran across a photographer online who listed her prices in the sidebar of her blog/website. Her bio indicated that she was a “professional photographer” which of course is often used loosely in 2010. She said she had 5 years of experience shooting weddings,…
Macro Photography: Quick Tips to Get You Started
Summer is a fun time to try something new. Challenge yourself to go out and find those ever-abundant flowers or other wonders of nature. Get close! From flowers to bees to bark, there is so much out there with incredible detail. Now is the time to play with macro photography and grab the chance while…
7 Tips for Adding Mini Photo Shoots Into Your Photography Business
Mini Photo Shoots: 7 Tips on How to Add These to Your Photography Business It started off as an idea to break up the late-winter lull. You know what I’m referring to – that January to March period where family shoots are few (because everyone just had their Christmas card photos taken), but it’s too…
The Ideal Focal Length for Portraiture: A Photographer’s Experiment
The Ideal Focal Length for Portraiture: A Photographer’s Experiment When framing a photo, have you ever considered the focal length at which you are framing the subject? The examples above represent the same subject, framed in the same manner yet they have strikingly different appearances due to the difference in focal length. Framing a subject…
Colors of Light ~ Red Green Blue ~ Sun Flare in Photography
Red Green Blue ~ Colors of Light ~ Sun Flare in Photography When learning about photography and color theory, it is important to understand RGB (which stands for Red, Green, and Blue). Without getting bogged down in all the technical stuff, you can see how colors mix in this image below. When it comes to…
5 Foolproof Tips for Photographing Kids
5 Foolproof Tips for Photographing Kids by Tamara Kenyon I get asked a lot about which subject the hardest to photograph. Most often I get people guessing that it’s kids because they’re so busy and hard to direct. WRONG. If we’re being honest here, it’s actually grown men, but that is for another post. Kids…
Successes and Failures of a First Year Photographer
One Year Later: Successes and Failures of a First Year Photographer by Chelsea LaVere In the teacher world, there is a huge emphasis on the First Year. The First Year is all about what worked and more importantly, what didn’t work. It’s all about reflection, reflection, reflection. I am formally trained as an English major…
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