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Summer is Upon Us – Time to See if You Have Improved
Late last year I had written an article about revising photographs you've taken from season to season to see what mistakes you made and if you had improved since then. This weekend is the perfect time to check out last summers shots, whether they are the portraits of your kids blowing bubbles [...]
3 Ways to Sell Your Old Camera and Gear
In the past two years there have been major innovation in the photography world, there are new cameras, lenses, and gear debuting every month. You've seen the Micro Four Thirds (Olympus's OMD and Panasonic's GH3) world catch up to the DSLR's with cropped sensors in regards to image quality. [...]
Photo Challenge – Portrait of a Rope
Plumb out of ideas of things to photograph? Then this is the challenge for you. Taking portraits of people is not my favorite thing in the world to do so I thought I'd use my imagination a little. All you need to do to complete this challenge is find an inanimate object and take portrait s[...]
Photo Challenge – Me and Monet
Before the camera there was canvas, paint, and brush. Today our sensor is the brush, your SD card is the canvas and light is your paint. If you think taking a great photograph is a challenge, try painting one (no that's not the challenge). The photo above immediately reminded me of Claude [...]
Photo Challenge for Two or More
Sometimes it's difficult to motivate ourselves to go out and photograph every day or even every week, sometimes we get a little burnt out. Turning photography into a bit of a game can help you to spark your passion and increase your skills as a photographer. As with most games, this one isn'[...]
Photographing Unusual Places
Not Your Usual Places Every now and again we tend to get in a rut, like writers block but with our cameras. You've photographed everything in your house and within a 20 mile radius and you're just looking for something new and close by. Now, I would argue that you never run out of things to p[...]
Holiday Photograph Idea
This idea came to me while my girlfriend and I were putting up the Charlie Brown tree. My sister had just asked me to take their family portrait this year and I had ideas streaming through my head. Why not have them all pose and take the photograph of their reflection in a Christmas bulb? I wasn[...]
5 Great Photography Ideas Around the House During Bad Weather
Even Cats Like Apple Products Tropical Storms are a real drag, the East Coast is getting slammed right now and we are all stuck in the house with the internet, an iDevice of some sort, probably a gaming console or three, television with 703 channels with nothing on, and a camera. What to do, wh[...]
Old Building, New Purpose
Grab your camera and dust off your hiking boot, you may need them. While searching for good places to photograph I stumbled upon an abandon building at North Park outside of Pittsburgh. I'm sure you could find a couple if you search some of the larger parks in your area. The peeling paint [...]
Farm Markets Around the World
Farm Market in Barbados This post is for the world travelers out there as well as the home bodies. We have received a few different photographs showing the different farm markets from people's home town around the United States as well as a couple from out of the country. Wouldn't it be great[...]
Great Places to Photograph
Farm Markets Once again my iPhone camera came to the rescue Friday night. Next time your trying to think of a place to get some interesting photographs I recommend checking out some of your local farm markets. I'd love to see photos from different farm markets all over the world. As a mat[...]
More Coffee Shop Photos
Starbucks did it right on this one. I have never seen this before but it seems like a pretty clever idea, cover a wall with old coffee bean sacs. You could do this in your pantry or along the wall in your sun room where you enjoy your morning coffee. It's simple, cheap, and a great convers[...]
How Often You Should Clean Your Camera Lens
Grab your camera and take a look at the lens. See those specs? That's what we are going to talk about. There are three ways to clean the outside of your camera including the lens. Blast of air, lens pen, and wet clean. You can clean your camera as often as you like but there is a metho[...]
Most Important Accesory for any Photographer
"Say Cheese" You guessed it! A tripod. Wait, you didn't guess a tripod? Well we are going with tripod. There are hundreds of different types of tripods out there so I'm going to focus on just a couple and let you figure out what works best for you. First, why is the tripod so important?[...]
Camera Case for Any Situation
Let's be realistic, when you take your camera with you it would be nice to not have to unzip eight different zippers just to take a quick pic but you still don't want to just drop it in your purse or backpack. Here is a case that you can either wear around your neck or throw in your backpack a[...]
