Photography For Beginners

Having the best accessories for landscape photography in your pack increases your chances of having a successful expedition. The right accessories ensure the safety of your expensive camera gear and impact the quality of the images you capture on your trip. Every photographic genre has its own “must-have” accessories. For…

Macro photography is one of the most fascinating genres of photography. It allows you to explore the small things in the world that you can’t usually see with the naked eye. Macro photography lets you see the details in all of the tiny, otherwise unspectacular everyday items. But in macro…

Importing photos into Lightroom can be somewhat mysterious for those new to the software. It’s not uncommon for people to unwittingly make multiple catalogs. Or they duplicate their photos or lose track of where they’re sending their images. Or, in extreme cases, delete them. So it’s important to understand exactly…

Do you wonder why your photos appear flat and uninteresting when you convert them to black and white? If you do, it is probably because your photos lack black and white contrast. A photo lacks contrast when it doesn’t have both dark tones and bright tones, instead having only a…

When it comes to portrait photography, the lighting can make or break the shot. In order to get the perfect light for your portraits, you need to understand the different types of portrait lighting terms. This guide will teach you everything you need to know about portrait lighting, from modifiers…

is full of family portrait ideas that can become family photo fails. Trying to re-create a photo by a pro who’s been shooting families for decades is a recipe for disaster. Not to mention unoriginal and a potential legal copyright battle. So here are seven creative family portrait ideas you can…

Fisheye lens photography is a genre that depends completely on one thing: the extreme panoramic perspective created by the fisheye lens. These lenses are wild beasts in the world of camera lenses, due to their huge field of view and strong visual distortions. Some people love them, some hate them. Some consider…

Choose the best Milky Way photography gear for your budget, from cameras and wide-angle lenses to tripods, intervalometers, warm clothing, and planning tools.

Forget everything you know about how to process a photograph. When it comes to adjusting the settings for images of the Milky Way, nothing is the same. You will make adjustments to sliders that you would never dream of when editing a regular landscape photograph. With Milky Way processing, this…

The Canon 7D Mark II is a high-end DSLR camera that Canon announced on September 15, 2014. It features a 20.2 MP CMOS sensor with Dual Pixel autofocus. And it has a continuous shooting rate of 10 fps, a 65-point all-cross-type AF system, and built-in GPS. Canon 7D Mark II…

Doing a few simple photography projects together can benefit you and your child. Our article gives you seven photography explorations you can do with your child to build a closer relationship and improve your images! Your children can gain self-confidence, improve their creativity, and build better communication skills through photography.…

Nothing quite says beautiful mess like first birthday cake smash photography. But when you decide to go the DIY route, the results tend to be less beautiful and more mess. From shooting my firstborn’s cake smash to his little sister’s, I’ve discovered a few tricks to getting colorful, messy first…