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Building a Home Studio Part 01: Space and Essential Shooting Gear
You love photographing and people and have decided to make the leap from a part-time hobbiest capture here and there to becoming a part-time or full-time professional studio photographer. While...
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Photography Workflow and Digital Asset Management (D.A.M.)
by Dawn M. Wayand All images by Dawn M. Wayand unless otherwise noted. As you begin or continue to build a growing portfolio of images, it’s important to have an organized system or workflow in...
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Tripods: Choosing the Right Support for Your Investment
by Dawn M. Wayand All Images by Dawn M. Wayand unless otherwise noted. You just poured a ton of money into a new DSLR camera…and a new lens: equipment you plan to utilize for a hobby, as an amateur...
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BUILDING THE HOME STUDIO PART 02: CONTINUOUS LIGHTS & LIGHT STANDS
On our last segment of this series, I provided you with information on actual shooting necessities like cameras, lenses and harnessing tools for your investment. I also addressed concerns on actual...
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Building Your Home Studio Part 03: Flashes, Light Meters and Backgrounds
Light is crucial in photography. Don’t believe me? Turn out all of the lights in your room, close the blackout curtains, make sure there is absolutely no light coming from anything in your room. Now...
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Umbrellas – Good for More Than Just a Rainy Day
Umbrellas. They keep us dry when it rains. They also serve a purpose for photographers from amateur to professional. No, put your rain umbrella away. Let me welcome you to the world of photography...
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Choosing the Right Studio Flash Lighting For You
There are many ways to light a subject when creating an image. You can choose daylight and a reflector. You can take your subject indoors and plug in some continuous lights with modifiers when...
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What Inspires Your Photography?
As photographers, we can be inspired by many things before clicking the shutter on a scene or subject to capture a moment in time. It could be the light falling on a scene or the look in someone’s...
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BUILDING THE HOME STUDIO PART 5: MONOLIGHTS & POWER PACK LIGHTS
Getting the light right is extremely vital in photography. It can make or break an image. Just as there are many choices in cameras, lenses, backgrounds, light stands, tripods and other various...
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6 Tips for Beginners Learning Photography
Photography can be a very rewarding experience for many photographers. Not only do photographers create a permanent archive of memories, but the validation and criticism received when sharing your work...
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6 More Tips for Beginners Learning Photography
So you got a camera for your birthday, the holidays or you just decided to finally get one and learn how to use it. Many beginners will start to learn photography without direction only to run into a...
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Capturing Magic: Finding Inspiration For Captivating Portraits
Portraiture has been around for many centuries. Before the digital age and even before the age of film, portraits had been created through other mediums such as paintings and sculptures. A portrait is...
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10 Tips for Relaxing Your Subject During a Photoshoot
One of the more difficult things photographers face when shooting a subject – be it a portrait client or a fashion model – is getting your subject to relax during a photoshoot. Many people get a little...
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Social Media and Your Photography
Technology advances and new platform creations have brought photographers new ways of sharing their news and their work. Long gone are the days of printing images and having a get together with your...
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7 Mistakes to Avoid When Shooting a Portrait
You have a portrait shoot coming up. It’s possible you spent the last week preparing for the photo shoot to the point you feel confident you’ve got this and that nothing is going to go wrong....
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11 Ways to Overcome Creative Blocks in Your Photography
Many artists sometimes face a lull in their production of new works or continuation of existing works due to a “creative block”. They often will find it difficult to conjure up an idea to work on a new...
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