Dream job, right? You go out, take a few photos and come home and put them out there to sell, then sit back and let the money roll in. Seems simple right? Wrong! These days with the onslaught of affordable digital cameras and the amount of available stock photography on the web, the competition is [...]
Fall is a wonderful time to get out your camera and capture the splendor of the world as it puts on its party clothes for one last dance before winter. Leaves change from rich green into jeweled tones of red, orange, and yellow. Sometimes photographers can struggle trying to bring those rich colors to life [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I asked what YOU would most like to learn about photography. The results were really pretty evenly split among the topics. So in addition to continuing to add new lessons on these topics I wanted to start you out with the basics on these topics. … Read Full Post
For our first September assignment our theme is sunset/sunrise. Go out and take your best sunset or sunrise photos! Will you focus on the glorious colors of sunset and sunrise? Or will you capture silhouettes against the glow? How you capture the sunset/sunrise is up to you. … Read Full Post
Now that school has started for most kids, parents are left in a panic as the first group of birthdays begin to roll around. Our About Hobbies Guides have been thinking about birthdays too. From gift guides to cards to decorative cakes, we’ve got some great ideas for you to try the next birthday party [...]
Photography is the art of recording light. And while there will always be instances when you either don’t have enough light to take a photograph, or you must add more light with a flash, the most common cause of dark photos is simply that you didn’t record the right amount of light. Why you didn’t [...]
In 2009, Royal London Asset Management set out to redevelop their current site to something that reflected their emerging motto, “see things differently”. RLAM’s marketing agency, Concep, based in London, wanted to create something for RLAM that also embodied original photography that captured details in a new light. Concep’s Art Director searched the net for [...]
Photo © Stephanie Calhoun with permission to About.com, Inc. Each Saturday, an image will be posted here that was originally posted somewhere in our forum roughly one year prior. Be sure to check back each Saturday for our blasts from the past!
Energizer batteries has narrowed down the entries in its “Ultimate Photo Contest” and is looking for votes to decide the final winners. Take a moment to hop over to … Read Full Post
In 2009, Royal London Asset Management set out to redevelop their current site to something that reflected their emerging motto, “see things differently”. RLAM’s marketing agency, Concep, based in London, wanted to create something for RLAM that also embodied original photography that captured details in a new light. Concep’s Art Director searched the net for [...]
