Jill Hanley
Taking family photos is an important skill for a photographer, whether you are an amateur or a professional. The popular style creates a few challenges for the photographer, but it’s also a fun opportunity to capture the spirit of the family while expressing your creativity. The following nine tips will help you achieve successful family … Read more
How do you get better at photography? The same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice. But practice what? That is the key. If you go out every day with your camera and take the same pictures the same way, you will end up with a lot of photos that look the same. … Read more
Knowing When to Use the Right Tool for the Job is Part of Being a Professional As a beginning photographer, there is a lot of help and advice out there. The problem is that much of it is conflicting based on who is giving the advice and their own experience. You will hear over and … Read more
To be a good family photographer, you have to build skills that go beyond your camera gear. While knowing how to use your manual settings is necessary, being able to build a rapport with the family you are working with is just as important. Most families are nervous about getting their pictures taken. Your first … Read more
Understanding the Fundamentals Can Take You a Long Way The most important part of photography is the exposure of every shot. Exposure is simply the amount of light hitting an electronic image sensor. Controlling exposure is about controlling and manipulating the light around you and this control is what makes photography a unique form of … Read more
A lot of people who are new to photography don’t like overcast days because they end up with gray and dark photos. However, overcast days are the perfect days to practice your shooting skills, especially if you want to take bright, airy shots. Start with these simple tweaks. Bump Up the ISO to 400 and … Read more
So you need product photos for your small online business. While you’d love to hire a pro photographer to take care of that, your current financial or logistical situation won’t allow for it right now — meaning you’ll have to somehow do it by yourself. Lucky for you, although photography, in general, is a famously … Read more
Self-Portraits: A Specialized Niche of Photography Shooting portraits in a studio is a fairly specialized genre of photography and one that requires as much knowledge and experience as any other. But unlike landscape or architecture, learning and practicing portraiture is a bit difficult. It’s an old paradox: you can’t get clients without experience, and you … Read more
As you get better with your photography, you would hope your vacation images would also improve. But often that is not the case. You get out on a trip and forget everything you’ve learned, returning with mediocre snapshots. Convert what you have learned in general photography into great vacation shots. This article discusses four tips … Read more
Being a business portrait photographer is an excellent niche to add to any professional photographer’s bag of tricks. Although it can be a bit repetitious, it can also be rewarding and challenging. Business portrait photography jobs can be as simple as a single executive headshot for a business article to portraits of everyone in the … Read more