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These creative DIY photography hacks will help you take amazing photographs--without spending any money on expensive photo gear.

It was my first year in business and I didn't know that it was up to me to educate my brides about creating a timeline that included an ample amount of time for portraits! If you're a wedding photographer then you know that this story is heading nowhere good! The beginning of the day was just fine, but like most wedding days there were a few things that popped up and made the bride run late. So, because the bride was concerned about getting into the church and hiding before any guests…

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Check out the updated post for 2021. Practice is the best way to get better at anything. This really applies to photography. There are so many technical things to learn, you need to practice them often to make the technical part second nature. Once you’ve got the technical parts down, you can focus solely on […]Continue Reading...

Looking for ways to rock some awesome night photos? Here’s everything you ever wanted to know to get you started taking incredible Nighttime Photography

These 7 Tools To Massively Improve Your Photo Skills totally made me a better photographer, and they can help you too! It's easier than you think!

Owning a blog means editing a lot of pictures and I've navigated my way around a few photo editing sites. The best thing about them: these are FREE photo editing sites. Not only are these sites good for bloggers, but they're great for moms who want to brighten, filter or erase some blemishes on family photos before they're printed and hanging on the wall. Here are my top 5 choices for free photo editing sites. 1. Canva I LOVE Canva and it's become the only tool I use to make images for…

Great tips for macro photography for beginning and more advanced photographers. This is a fun kind of photography you will love trying.

A heavy backpack full of camera gear is as limiting to your photos as it is helpful. These 10 mirrorless cameras help put the focus back to taking photos

The Night Sky can be a beautiful thing, and long exposure nighttime photography can expose that beauty to anyone with the right (affordable) equipment. As complete beginners in this area, we thought we could share what we have learned as we enjoyed a week in Bryce Canyon recently and spent a few of…

9 Weird Photography Tricks That Actually Work!. Sometimes I feel like I spend so much time reading photography tricks and tips online that I never see

Silhouette are striking photographs. Wanna know an easy ways to take a beautiful silhouette photo? It's not hard at all! Keep reading and you'll learn exactly how to do it! Taking silhouette shots are actually much easier than you'd think (plus they are one of my favorite type of shots to…

Help your students understand how to take manual photographs using a DSLR digital camera. This poster shows five examples of different aspects of the camera you can control in manual mode:➣Exposure ➣Aperture➣Depth of field➣Shutter speed➣ISOAn Introduction to Photography course has so many things to...