In the days before digital photography, it was difficult to learn from other people’s works.  First and foremost, you had to find the work.  You had to go out of your way to browse galleries museums or even craft shows to find good examples of photography.  As you’re learning photography, you did what you could [...]

As photographers, we often get wrapped up in labeling ourselves: Landscape Photographer, Semi-Pro, Portrait Photographer, and so on. As hobbyists, we shouldn’t be restricting ourselves. Today, we explore a broader approach and learn why titles really don’t matter (to us).

How does one compare the quality of their older photographs to newer ones? How can you really see how much you’ve improved? Better yet, how are you able to identify problems or flaws in your process? Well, with benchmarking and a test site, of course. Read on to learn about benchmarking, test sites and self improvement.

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.

Pride is everything and anything in your work. Like many aspects of our art form, there is a delicate balance. Learn to control your pride and use it to your benefit your photography in this article.

In the past week, we have been wrapping up 2009 and looking forward into 2010.  We’ve focused on small details and talked about looking back and reviewing our own works.  We’ve looking deep into the future and made some predictions.  But now it’s time to talk about our relationship with you – how Shutter Photo’s [...]

Many of you have made New Years Resolutions to achieve certain goals this year. You’ll also have to remind yourself to keep yourself on track throughout the year. Here’s a list of tips that will help you to achieve your goals in photography, no matter what they are.

It has been a long time coming, but I am now ready to make the official announcement:  I have created a new portfolio to exhibit my work.  I will explain my thought process, but if you want to go right to my new portfolio, you can visit it now.
For the time being, I’m going to [...]

Photography – like many art forms, it is subjective in nature.  I have long struggled with the idea of calling myself an artist when it comes to my work in photography. For the longest time, photography was a medium all to itself.  I felt more like a historian, documenting the world as I traveled through [...]

The new year is coming and many people carry out the tradition of New Years Resolutions.  Not a huge fan of the tradition, myself – they seem to always end up as empty promises to yourself.  But I am a firm believer in setting goals to improve yourself.  With that in mind, I’ve identified three [...]

I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately.  Part of it has to do with the fact that my time has been filled helping to raise my daughter through the first months of her life.  But in my spare time, I havn’t been really efficient with my camera.  Lets just say that the shots [...]