Five Bizarre Ways You Can Lose Digital Photos
About a month ago I had a moment of horror. When copying some picture files from my camera to the backup drive, for some inexplicable reason the file copy burped and overwrote an older picture with a...
View ArticleNecessary Photography Accessories
Many of you may have gotten a new camera over the holidays and, after a brief spurt of holiday photos, it’s time to start thinking about your new hobby more seriously. You’ll also be discovering there...
View ArticleTips For Better Street Photography
The term “street photography” has gotten a bad rap over the years. For too many it means taking street portraits of people who don’t necessarily want to have their pictures taken. While it can be that,...
View ArticlePhotography Gadgets Worth The Money
Face it, most of the photography gadgets you buy get used once or twice and then end up as ballast in your camera bag. That’s fine if you need a particular piece of gear for a special shot and you know...
View ArticlePhone Cameras – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Truth
If you go to Flickr, or almost any other photo oriented social media site, it’s inevitable that the number one camera will be an iPhone. In fact, in the recent data, every single one of the top five...
View Article5 Composition Tips From The Pros
When you spend any amount of time browsing pictures, you quickly learn that 99 percent of them are boring. In the old days, when I was a new at the business, you needed some technical skill to take...
View ArticleShooting For Stock Photography
In the old days stock photographs were the leftovers from your shooting day. You were already paying the model, hair and makeup so it was pretty trivial to get your bread and butter shots for the...
View ArticleDealing With Photography Data Loss
In business, just like in life, there will be what I call “oh crap” moments. In the photography business those moments tend to happen when you lose photos. There’s a tendency by some to look back on...
View ArticleDealing With Spring Showers
“It was just misting,’ my friend rued when telling me the story of how he killed his Canon camera. He was shooting a wedding when it was raining most of the day. He was doing fine shooting indoors when...
View ArticleHow To Grow As a Photographer
One of the questions you face when you’ve been doing photography a while is how to get to the next level as a photographer. Sometimes, looking at Flickr or Instagram, it’s easy to get depressed when...
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