Lighting in wedding photography is a big thing. Regardless of your budget you have a responsibility to deliver good clean images to your clients. That responsibility does not diminish with a smaller contract price. Meaning, even if you are shooting your first wedding, or just because you are charging $500 it does not mean you can afford to take things easy. You still have to produce great images. Lighting, to a large extent, helps you to carry out that responsibility and deliver great images from a wedding event. Make no mistake. Almost all of the wedding photography lights and other accessories detailed here can be hired. Hiring gives you the opportunity to test out a product before deciding to make an investment. But just in case you are beyond that stage, here's what you are here for Read more...
There is a lot of misconception among first time stock photo contributors about the kind of images that sell well as stock. They feel if an image has the X-factor it must be a good stock photo as well. They feel swayed when their peers, colleagues and friends on social media leave rave reviews for their images. They feel those images would sale like hot-cakes on Shutterstock or iStockphoto too. They are disappointed when that don't happen. Looking for microstock secrets? Don't believe everything you hear, and certainly don't have pre-conceived notion about all things. Read more...
Apart from portraiture, product photography is one of those few genres which can provide a steady year round source of income for a professional photographer. Product photography requires a simple setup – much of which can be done DIY. As a matter of fact you need very little equipment to get started. Once you have perfected the setup and lighting, you can shoot on that same setup year round making a handsome amount of money by shooting products for small and medium businesses. Here’s how you can get started.
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These days with smartphones, camera phones and advanced pocket sized Point & Shoots everybody can aspire to be a photographer. As a matter of fact most do. Thanks to all the social media platforms that are also available now to fuel our ego these amateur photographers start to believe that they are real good at taking photos. Read more...
Last Monday it rained the entire morning. It was a particularly off day for me too as I spent about half an hour staring at the laptop screen and nothing seemed to come out of my head. I realized it was one of those days when Mother Nature conspires with lady luck so that I would be forced to take my eyes off the digital screen and spend some time appreciating the wonders of nature around me. Read more...
If you are a digital photographer, which is most likely (well you are here reading this isn’t?), one particular aspect of your work is inherently touchy; and that is data management. As you may be aware by now, shooting hundreds and thousands of photos each month takes a toll on your computer hard drive. At the end of the day, hard drive capacity is finite and that means sooner rather than later you would run out of space to store your photos. Read more...
As a budding entrepreneur looking to start your own photography business, you should give proper focus unto your branding activities. Business branding is a necessary exercise and something that you will have to pay full attention to because from here on your business logo and name will be everywhere. Read more...
One of the things that photographers don’t pay attention to, when they are just starting out offering their products and services,is proper marketing. Of course they do market, but their focus of attention is not where it should be. As a photographer and an entrepreneur you need to channelize your attention in the right areas so that you can maximize the output. Sothat you can generate the maximum amount of money for yourself. Read more...
A lot of digital photographers make this cardinal mistake when they work on their portfolios. They try to accommodate anything and everything that they have been shooting into one single portfolio, be it a book or a website. Though I am not the one to put some sort of a creative shackle on you, I am going to make one remark though; and that is don’t do this. Read more...
Lighting in wedding photography is a big thing. Regardless of your budget you have a responsibility to deliver good clean images to your clients. That responsibility does not diminish with a smaller contract price. Meaning, even if you are shooting your first wedding, or just because you are charging $500 it does not mean you can afford to take things easy. You still have to produce great images. Lighting, to a large extent, helps you to carry out that responsibility and deliver great images from a wedding event. Make no mistake. Almost all of the wedding photography lights and other accessories detailed here can be hired. Hiring gives you the opportunity to test out a product before deciding to make an investment. But just in case you are beyond that stage, here's what you are here for Read more... 
