Photography Tips and Tutorials

Your family and friends are raving about your work. Your Facebook friends are giving you thumbs up when you post your images.  But is that enough feedback to know that your work is actually good?  Given how many different images we see every day, shouldn’t people be able to recognize a good one from a [...]

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3 Ways to Know if Your Work is Good

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I recently photographed the funeral of a beautiful 16 year old girl. It was the most challenging shoot of my career (times infinity). The work was heart wrenching and overwhelming, horrifying and EXHAUSTIVE and . . . ultimately . . . it was tender, intimate, and astonishingly and inexplicably, beautiful. I left that day completely [...]

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How to Photograph a Funeral :: 4 Tips I Hope you Never have to Use

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First, let me say that I borrowed the expression ‘light seeker’ from fellow photographer Jerod Foster. It’s the perfect way to describe what we are as photographers and I am going to try to explain why we need to pay more attention to the light around us to make better images. My photography improved dramatically [...]

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Are You A Light Seeker?

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Introduction This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom. As we all know, dust spots on our images can be quite a annoying little pests to deal with. Just when you think you have them all corrected, you [...]

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Advanced Dust Correction in Lightroom

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One of the more ingenious products I’ve come across lately is the Tripad.  It’s purpose is simple,  support a computer on a tripod to make shooting tethered as easy as possible. Shooting tethered is an incredibly useful means of using your computer to control your dSLR camera. It enables you to preview images before they’re [...]

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Review: Tripad

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Note: all images in this post are copyrighted to Natalie Norton, unless otherwise indicated.  Photographing kids can be a real pain adventure! They’re busy, they’re squirmy, they’re fast, sometimes they’re cranky, but guess what? Comparatively, all of that stuff is a total piece of cake. The real challenge? The cheeeeeeeeeeese. Never have I photographed a child [...]

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Cut the Cheese: 5 Tips for Photographing Kids

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Classical or contemporary; architectural photography can be as challenging as it is rewarding. Here are some pointers to help you get started… 1. Be sensitive to the direction of light as this can increase contrast, shadows, textures and reflections. High levels of contrast can fool cameras into exposing the scene incorrectly, but shooters can easily [...]

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9 Architectural Photography Tips

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Image Source: John Salvador Lens Filters: general information For those of you who are newer to the wild, wild world of photography, there are many different kinds of lens filters, and thus they are used for varied reasons. The two most commonly used filters would be 1) Polarizing filters which are used to reduce glare [...]

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Readers: Lens Filters: To Use or Not To Use? Your 2 cents, if you please!

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Photographic artistry can take on many forms. Those that make the greatest impact often challenge convention and blend styles to create something new. Nature photography is defined almost as strictly as Photojournalism where one’s subject must be honestly portrayed with minimal digital alteration (e.g. no composites, cloning, etc.) all while showing animals in the wild versus [...]

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3 Minutes with Photographer Michael Kern

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Photographic artistry can take on many forms. Those that make the greatest impact often challenge convention and blend styles to create something new. Nature photography is defined almost as strictly as Photojournalism where one’s subject must be honestly portrayed with minimal digital alteration (e.g. no composites, cloning, etc.) all while showing animals in the wild versus [...]

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3 Minutes with Photographer Michael Kern

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