Photography workshops are a wonderful way to improve your skills, expand your knowledge base and meet interesting new people. Photography is a lifelong learning adventure and so even if you feel as though you’re on top of your game there’s still plenty of good reasons to continue attending workshops, courses and classes. Photography is a…
Reasons Why Photography Is Not A Great Hobby
Photography is an increasingly popular pastime for people of all ages and backgrounds, particularly with the easy access to relatively high tech equipment at falling prices; but it’s not all upside! Having a hobby that you are passionate about is a great way to keep yourself focused and driven in life. It also gives you…
Technical Vs Creative Photos – How To Strike The Right Balance.
Photography is a highly creative artform but it relies on the technical possibilities that are available, both in terms of the photographer’s knowledge and the camera and equipment itself. This leaves you, as a photographer, with a difficult conundrum – how far can you push the creative aspects of photography without skipping on the technical…
Photography Agent – Everything You Need To Know
As you develop your skills and techniques throughout your photography career and you start to enjoy more success and clients, you may start to consider working with a photography agent. A photography agent offers you professional representation through an agency and can be hugely advantageous for your further growth in the competitive photography industry. There…
How To Find The Best Model For Photoshoot
When it comes to photoshoots there’s few things, aside from your own skills, that are more important than the model you are working with. Get it right, and the photoshoot will run smoothly and you’ll end up with some fantastic shots; however, get it wrong and you’ll end up with a real headache on your…
Great Reasons Why Long Term Photography Projects Are Important
As a photographer, whether you’re a freelancer or working for a company, most of your projects are likely to be very short term, with many lasting a day or less! Whether you’re working at a wedding, running a fashion photoshoot or doing product photography, most of the time you’re up against the clock as you…
All You Need To Know About Fashion Photography
Fashion photography is the art of displaying clothes and fashion items worn by models in the most stylish, appealing and flattering ways. Fashion photos are regular features on billboards, in shop windows and in marketing materials and are generally used to entice customers to buy the products. Fashion photography itself is one of the oldest…
Creating A Great Resume And Artist Statement For Photographers
Every photographer needs a highly engaging resume that will grab the attention of potential employers or clients that covers all the pertinent details of your skills and training. When you are submitting a resume you should also be providing an artistic statement which is written from a first person perspective and gives a deeper insight…
Great Benefits Of Being A Photographer And Videographer At The Same Time
There’s a lot of reasons why, if you’re a photographer, you should certainly consider getting into videography as well and work both fields simultaneously. If you’ve spent time learning the skills, techniques, underlying principles and methods of photography the great news is that most of that knowledge is highly transferable to videography; which means that…
Great Reasons Why A Photographer Should Learn Videography
Photography has been a mainstay of the worlds of marketing and promotion as well as playing a central role in corporate events, weddings and much more over the last half century however with the invention of higher quality video cameras at lower prices this trend has been changing in recent decades. Many freelancing photographers are…