Articles tagged with: Photography
Skills You Need To Thrive as a Wedding Photographer
Wedding photography can be a very lucrative endeavor for a budding, talented photographer out there. However, it takes a specific skill set to really thrive out of the gate, and you should be aware of …
Review: Multiblitz Profilux Monolight
Ok, let ‘s start this off with a few disclaimers here. First, hell is not freezing over, pigs are not flying, and the world is not coming to an end, although many of you may …
Getting Flash Exposure Fast
In this episode of our Friday Photo Tips I answer a common question about how to get flash exposure dialed in quickly when using manual strobes. This will work whether you are using manual speedlights …
How to hold your camera
In this week’s Friday Photo Tip I show you some different techniques for holding your camera to help prevent camera shake. Accidentally moving the camera when taking a picture is one of the leading causes of fuzzy …
How to clean your DSLR sensor
In this episode I show you how to clean the sensor on your DSLR or mirrorless camera. To clean the sensor I use a LensPen SensorPen and KlearLoupe. This kit allows you to easily see …
Posing Basics: Using V’s for Composition and Framing
Using V shapes is extremely pleasing to the eye and can help add a lot of dramatic flair as it really makes the subject stand out. The V shape can be used for both composition …
Using a reflector
In this episode, Kerry Garrison (http://kerrygarrison.com) shows how to use a reflector to bounce sunlight onto a subject to help improve your natural light portraits
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Posing Basics – The Naked Shoulder & Full Back
Continuing in our series on posing is The Naked Shoulder. In this pose the subject’s face is turned towards a naked shoulder with the face in either full frontal or 2/3 view. Of course the …
Friday Photo Tip – Understanding ISO
The ISO setting of your camera is used to adjust the sensitivity of your camera’s sensor, allowing you to shoot in darker situations than normal. There is a trade-off as increasing the ISO setting will …
Classic Portrait Lighting Styles Part I
As we continue our series on portrait lighting we now need to look at the different types of classic portrait lighting and see the effect it has on someone so we can decided when to use each type. By choosing the proper lighting for a particular person, we can help them to look their best by making them appear to be thinner or wider or to accent or minimize certain facial features.
Posing Basics – The Step Up
Most of the poses we have seen so far in our posing series have been used to show a woman’s curves or can even be used to hide unwanted curves. This pose, which I call …
How to clean your lenses
Keeping your lenses clean is easier than most people think but does require a few things to make sure you do it properly. This week, I show you the best way to clean your lenses. During …
Review: Canon EOS M Mirrorless Camera
If you haven’t bought a mirrorless camera yet, you will soon. Yes, that is a pretty bold statement, but let’s face reality here, it is more than “just likely” that ALL cameras will be mirrorless …
Posing Basics – Knees in or Out
In the second installment of our Posing Basics series we will look at another simple technique to add a little style to your subjects with just a little knee action. The result is very similar …
Three Things to Know When Buying Your Lighting Essentials
Lighting can affect a shot, too much or less of it is a matter of delivering the perfect shot. Every photographer would stop relying on its camera’s built – in flash and start discovering and …
Color Correction with Gels
This week I show you how to match flash color with ambient color using colored gels on your flash. Kerry goes on to show you how to use the same technique to trick a scene into …
Posing Basics – The S Curve
One day my wife came home to find me sitting in the middle of the living room floor surrounded by torn up fashion magazines. After the appropriate jokes about what I could possibly be doing …
Podcast Flashback – Carlos Baez
This week we flash back to early 2009 with one of the most popular podcasts in the history of Camera Dojo.
In this show Kerry and David talk with Carlos Baez about the recent controversy over the …
