Photography Tips
How To Rank In Google Search As A Local Photography Business
Interested in how to market yourself online as a photographer? MCP Actions and Jenna Schwartz show you how you can use the internet and organic search to rank your business in search engines and beat up the competition with local search marketing.
Improve Your Photography In One Word – Reflectors
This blog post will give you tips on how to use a reflector both in a studio setting and on location outdoors. Photo examples are included.
MCP Photography and Editing Challenge: Highlights from this Week
This week’s photography challenge is to capture a picture of an everyday item – SHOES – and let it tell a story. Where have they been? Where are they going? What have they seen? or Who do they belong to? Everyday items tell great stories that we often overlook. We loved seeing your take…
MCP Editing and Photography Challenges: Highlights from this Week
Do you believe in magic? This week’s photo editing challenge requires making a little bit of magic using Photoshop to create a fantasy composite image. You can learn how by reading THIS blog post by Elizabeth Hall. Here is the composite background photo, shoot and shared by Elizabeth Hall: Several of members of the group…
MCP Photography and Editing Challenges: Highlights from this Week
This week’s photography challenge encourages you to get up close and personal with macro photography. We loved seeing your take on this theme. Here are a few we wanted to feature, but make sure to check the album on the group page for more. Submitted Amy Bellair Anderson Submitted by Michael Zarogoza Use the photography challenges as a…
MCP Photography and Editing Challenge: Highlights from this Week
Where are the wild things this week? Some might be heading back to school, while others may be hiding in this week’s MCP Photo Editing Challenge’s featured photo, captured by Ali Ellen. Several members of the group have shared great edits. Here are a few of the many favorite storybook edits: Edited by Brianne Thomas…
Get Technical: How to Photograph Toddlers
The technical aspects of shooting portraits of toddlers and kids. Lights, aperture, shutterspeed and lenses.
Get Happy: How to Get Toddlers To Smile for the Camera
Here is a guide to get everyone smiling during your photography sessions, both kids and their mummies.
Get Ready: 10 Tips for Photographing Toddlers
10 tips for photographers to get better pictures of toddlers.
MCP Photography and Editing Challenges: Highlights from this Week
This week we introduced a new photo challenge on the MCP Shoot Me Facebook page. This week’s challenge is to capture emotion with a single shot. We loved seeing everyone’s work on this theme, the range of emotions and techniques used to capture it were amazing! Here are a few of the team’s favorites…
5 Steps to Successful Mini Sessions for Professional Photographers
A foolproof, step-by-step guide to running successful minis for professional photographers.
How to Brand Your Photography Business
Learn how to truly brand your photography business so that clients remember you, value you and recommend you to others.
MCP Photography and Editing Photo Challenges: Highlights from this Week
This week’s photo edit challenge photo, captured by Angela McNaul, embodies the essence of childhood summer memories. Here is the original photo: The MCP photo challenges give you an opportunity to edit other photographer’s images, share them for critique, and see how others edit the same photographs. Participating allows you to practice editing, learn how…
MCP Photography and Editing Challenge: Highlights from this Week
Do you like to swim in the shallow end of the photography focal length pool? Do you wish for creamy, blurry backgrounds that seem to make your subject pop? Do you dial down to f1.4 or f2 to achieve it? Is it a detriment to the quality of your photos? This week we introduced a…
MCP Photography and Editing Challenge: Highlights from this Week
Love is in the editing with this week’s gorgeous challenge photo shot by Christine Sines. Near perfect straight from the camera, this week we challenged you to utilize your favorite MCP actions and presets to enhance this photo. Here is the challenge shot. The photo editing challenge gives you a chance to edit other photographer’s images, share…
Take Control of Your Light: Why Diffuse It
How to affect the quality of the light Is the light is giving you the look you desire? By themselves some light sources are very hard, creating very dark and crisp shadows. To soften the light you need to diffuse it by adding modifiers: an umbrella, a softbox, or even a fabric screen. Think about…
Take Control of Your Light: Flash
How to Start out with Flash Lighting If continuous lighting (see Part I) is not ideal for you and you decide that flash lighting would work better, then what? Well now you have to decide between studio strobes or on-camera flash (speedlights) , which can also be used off camera. Both work great, and once…
Take Control of Your Light: Artificial Light, Why Use It
Using artificial light Artificial light is similar to natural light in the way you use it, but differs in three ways. First, you can adjust the power of the light, second, you can change your distance from the light easily, and third, you can modify the quality of the light. Adjustable Power When using any…
Take Control of Your Light: Continuous Light
Steps on how to get to selecting and using at least one ‘un’-natural source of light. The part of the article covers continuous lighting.
MCP Photography and Editing Challenge: Highlights from this Week
This week’s photography challenge pays tribute to the succulent days of summer; the perfect time to enjoy may of life’s guilty pleasures. This week we invited you to snap a photo of your guilty little pleasure. Join us for the biweekly photography challenges. It is the perfect way to grow as a photographer, as…
Recent Posts
