“Frolic” by D. Travis North

Photography is a vast and complex field.  That is why there are so many specialties:  Portrait photography, architectural photography, landscape photography, and so on.  No single person is capable of mastering every single aspect of photography in a lifetime. 

As an emerging photographer, it’s very hard to keep a single goal in [...]

Photographers are a crazy bunch. Laying on the pavement, climbing trees – standing on crates just to get the right angle. We can collect some pretty interesting comments and gather a lot of strange looks. It’s inevitable. But we need to overcome. In this article, I share about my own silly experiences and how I overcame my own fears.

Learn the cause and how to eliminate the demonic look of read eye in your candid portraiture.

The ‘Get Close’ rule, perhaps the most useful of the compositional rules, will make great photos easier to attain. Read on to learn more about this simple rule and how to apply it to your own photography.

Many beginning photographers start out by learning the rules. Perhaps this works for some, but for many, it’s difficult to apply the rules until we fully understand their purpose. In this article, we briefly discuss why such rules exist, and the proper way to learn how (not) to use them.

In this educational article, you will learn about where compositional rules came from, and how to apply them to your image. This article comes with a nice little practice and learning exercise that may help you to regain focus or help you understand compositional rules.

Many inexperienced photographers look forward to the day when they can expect to trash fewer failed photos. But is that necessarily the case? For that matter, is that ideal? Read on to see what you can expect as you grow as a photographer.

Poor Focus is the reason why so many otherwise great photos never make the cut. Yet there are so many simple techniques to help you make sure you’ve got it right. To learn some of these simple reminders, read on.

Looking to learn more about artificial flash and strobe photography? Perhaps you need an online resource like the widely acclaimed Strobist Blog. Read on to learn about what the site has to offer.

Shutter Photo reviews an instructional book, “Learning to See Creatively” by Bryan Peterson, professional photographer, instructor and author of many books on photography. Read on to see our thoughts and learn how this book can help you improve your photography. A must-read for beginners.

To help new students understand basic design concepts, instructors will introduce them to the basic elements of design – or as I like to call them: Building Blocks of Design: Line, Shape, Form, Texture, Pattern and Color. Read on to see how we can approach these elements and consciously compose interesting photographs.

Technology is a force that has changed the face of the world over the past few decades; a fact this is no less apparent in the world of Photography. For better or for worse, many of the tedious tasks and calculations that a photographer was expected to do on his own have long since [...]