3 Photographic Techniques For Creating Beautiful Direct Sunlight Portraits

With just 3 techniques, you can create beautiful, striking portraits out in direct sunlight. Modifying harsh sunlight and positioning your model properly can lead to startling results.

Photographing The Beautiful Flower Show On Figueroa Mountain

Using a camera to capture both the grandeur of these massive blooms and the intimate delicacy of each flower is a challenge, but it can be done using a simple tool—backlighting.

Window Light, An Amazingly Elegant Photography Light Source

We all have that lighting system available, of course. I use window lighting for a wide range of photographic subjects, but I have noticed in my classes that many students seem to ignore it. It’s a seemingly easy light source …

Control A Photograph’s Depth Of Field With Simple Focus Stacking

I used a solution called focus stacking. Making sure that I had frames where the focus on the fisherman’s face was sharp and others where the lobster is sharp, I didn’t change exposure or composition. I merely shifted the focus …

The Challenge Of Creating Visual Impact In A Photo Essay

A photo essay is essentially a story told with minimal words and, hopefully, lots of photographs. The trick is creating a diverse range of images that are all necessary to fully explain a subject or location.

Have Fun Searching For Colorful Photographic Details

For me, these intimate photographic details often say more about the culture of an area than more general shots and they always add a spot of strong color during a drab part of the day.

The 2 Big Hurdles To Creating Amazing Backlit Photographs

Backlighting helps control contrast in a scene, creates beautiful rim lighting effects, enhances color of translucent subjects and helps models relax in front of the camera by eliminating the need to squint into the sun.

The 4 Advantages Of Photographic Backlighting

Control contrast, increase color saturation and create a rim light with photographic backlighting.

Capture Easy Color For Powerful Photographic Images

I look for color everywhere I travel. For me, color is an integral part of the travel experience.