Joshua Dunlop

The general idea is that you find a way of syncing you camera with your flash so that you can take it off of your camera and illuminate your subject for a different angle. You’ll need a separate, off camera flash, but there’s plenty of choice to suit your budget and needs. When you take your flash off your camera, you open up a whole load of different options when it comes to diffusing the light through various umbrellas, softboxes and beauty dishes.

Dynamic tension is a way of using the energy and movement available in various features of the frame to draw the eye out of the picture in contrasting directions. We’ve already looked at a variety of different lines that you can use in a photo to make it more interesting, but dynamic tension takes these lines and adds varying degrees of contrast between them, making them much more interesting.

The reason for writing this post was not to show you why you should never be a photographer, it’s to show you the pitfalls that await you when you decide to take it on, and what you should avoid when trying to start a professional photography career. Hope it helps.

Learn how to use converging lines to add depth, guide the viewer’s eye, and compose stronger photographs.

Use flash to light a nearby subject, fill shadows or create an effect. Learn when available light works better and how range, bounce and sync speed affect the result.

Take better photos with the camera or phone you have. These ten practical steps cover light, focus, composition, exposure, white balance, and simple edits.

Vertical lines come right after horizontal lines in importance and that’s for a single reason – the way our eyes view an image. Our eyes scan a photo from left to right horizontally and will pick up horizontal lines first, and because of this, vertical lines are excellent at complementing horizontal lines. This is a great technique to adding tension into a photo.

Horizontal lines are in everything we see and are at the base of every composition. Even photos with no straight lines in them are bound by the horizontal or vertical frame that they’re contained in. It’s important to understand the effect that a horizontal line has on a photo because then you’ll better understand how to use it effectively.

I personally love working corporate events as they’re always different. There’s lots to learn from people speaking at events that others have paid thousands to see. It’s an easy relaxed gig and the pay is great if you’re going after the right clients. This rather long post is a complete definitive guide as to how to work a corporate event and get repeat business.

Autofocus is often not the most reliable tool for focusing when the subject is at the side of the frame. Focus lock is built into all modern digital cameras as a way of correcting that; it allows you to select what you want to focus on by pointing at it and then moving your camera back to how you had it composed previously.

This post is all about taking better photos indoors, using an external flash. It covers the advantages and disadvantages of using different shutter speeds and apertures.