Tips for Second Shooting Weddings
Second shooting weddings can be a great way to dip your toe in the waters of wedding photography. If you are not quite ready to handle taking on a wedding on your own, second shooting is a perfect learning experience to get you comfortable during the hustle and bustle of a wedding day. These are my top tips for second shooting weddings.
How to Learn Photography Online for Free
How to learn photography online for free. Use these different mediums to learn for free about photography, business and more. Here's how to learn for free online.
How Taking a Gap Year Helped Me Succeed
Should you take a gap year in college? This is how taking a gap year in college helped me succeed. Learn why a gap year was worth it for me.
20 Ideas for Blog Posts for Photographers
20 ideas for photographers to blog about. Blogging ideas for photographers who want to start a blog, but don't know where to get started.
How to Shoot with Agency Models
Learn how to shoot agency models. Here's the basic guide to booking photography models. As a photographer, learn to work with modeling agencies.
Print Marketing Ideas for Photographers
Does your photography business need print marketing materials? These are the best ideas for print marketing for photographers.
Free Instagram Marketing Strategies for Wedding Photographers
Free Instagram marketing ideas for wedding photographers. Grow your wedding photography business with Instagram using these free actionable tips.
Build Your Wedding Photography Portfolio Without Clients
If you’re looking to break into wedding photography but don’t have any clients lined up, there are ways that you can practice and build your wedding portfolio when you don’t have clients.
How to Be a Photographer with a Full-Time Job - Part-Time Photographer Tips
Being able to start building on something you love with a steady stream of income is a great way to transition into a passion career. Learn how you can start building your photography business with a full-time job.
Tools to Make Blogging Easier - Streamline Blogging for Photographers
Save time when you’re blogging by using these tools to make your blogging more efficient and more valuable. What can you do to save time on blogging?
Tips for Shooting Couples - How to Make a Couple Comfortable for a Photo Shoot
Taking great couples photos requires that your couples be comfortable. Across the board, if your subject in a photo isn’t comfortable, you’re not going to take the best possible photo. If someone is hiring you for photos, you want to provide the best result that you can. So how can you take great couples photos with comfortable couples?
How to Photograph in Crowded Places
How do you photograph in crowded places and make it look good? I’ve got 6 tips for taking photos in crowded places so your photos (or ‘grams) stand out from the crowd… literally.
What I’ve Learned from Consistently Blogging as a Photographer
Since I started this blog in January 2018, I’ve kept it up pretty consistently. In the time that I’ve been blogging, I’ve learned a lot through both posting consistently and through research and analysis. I’ve taken notes on my most effective learning points from blogging over the last couple of years.
Easy Ways for Photographers to Grow their Email List
How can photographers grow their email list? Start with these quick tips to grow your email list as a photographer.
Ten Things Many Photography BFAs Don’t Teach You
Like with many creative degrees, there are a few aspects of the industry that don’t typically get covered in a photography BFA program. That’s not to say that every BFA program won’t cover these topics, but a lot of the time, photography degrees are more focused on the technical and creative aspects. These are ten things that many photography BFAs don’t teach you.
No Macro Lens? Try This Workaround
I’ve been obsessed with macro photography since first discovering it in my young teen years. I couldn’t afford a proper macro lens for a really long time, and I couldn’t justify the expense over some other, more practical (for me) equipment. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t experimenting with macro photography for years, however. I still use this technique to take macro photos without a macro lens, even when owning one. I recently covered the topic of freelensing, and wanted to expand on that to get a little more macro.
How to Start a Blog as a Photographer
How do you start a blog as a photographer? Let’s figure out where to begin with your photography blog.
Tough Love for Freelance Photographers
Every freelancer goes through periods in their career when they may need tough love to pick them back up. If you’ve fallen into a rut in your business, take a look into some of the potential reasons for that. These are some little reminders for freelance photographers to help grow and stabilize their business.
Imitating Tilt-Shift with Freelensing
One of my favorite photography tricks that gives your images a distinctive feeling is freelensing. It’s a technique that imitates tilt-shift photography, a beautiful style of photography that gives you the ability to essentially “shift” your plane of focus. We’re going to cover how to imitate tilt-shift photography with freelensing, and how to freelens and protect your sensor.