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10 Photography Tips to Help You Take Your Photography up a Level. The best lessons are the ones you learn the hard way. Here are 10 photography tips I learned after lots of frustration, discouragement, money lost, and forever lost opportunities. These tips are not very common, I never heard them hence you probably never heard of them either. I hope they help you avoid the mistakes I made, and help you improve your photography. Let’s get to it shall we? 1 – Always have a camera in your pocket. How many times have you been a situation where you kinda wanted to take your camera bag, but ended up not doing so because of the thought of lugging the bag, or even the DSLR itself?

It’s understandable. Caption: An abandoned cart on my way to get a sandwich One of the best things I did as a photographer was to get myself a pocket camera (The Ricoh GRD III, now I have the Ricoh GRD IV) and take it everywhere with me. Caption: At a hospital for a baby checkup Caption: In the park 2 – Your background is as important as the subject 3 – Everything is light 6 – Ask why Meh. Food Photography Basics. *Disclaimer: All of my thoughts and advice are merely things I have learned in the past year of blogging and strategies that I’ve used to get to this point.

Welcome back to my Blogging Series! It’s taken me some time to compile this comprehensive post, so that’s the reason for the month-long hiatus from the series. It’s a lengthy post, but I hope you can find some aspects and topics helpful. I’m learning along the way – I love hearing feedback and tips as well. Food Photography Introduction *Please note that I have no professional background in photography. There are hundreds of thousands of resources for learning how to improve your food photography.

Photos are the bread and butter of my blog. Aside from posting quality content (over quantity) and being present/available to readers on my blog, I have learned that the photography is what draws in my crowd. {Photo 1 taken with my iPhone 4 & no editing in December 2011. We eat with our eyes, so my blog’s photography is an important aspect. Basics of Photography. Photography Tutorial: A Quick Guide. Hi guys! With Labor Day weekend coming up, I know a lot of us are going to be out there taking pictures!

:) Since we have a long weekend to practice, I wanted to share with you this basic intro to SLR photography. If you have an SLR camera and are nervous to take it out of auto mode, this is the tutorial for you. You may have heard words like aperture, exposure, and shutter speed and wondered just how on earth they come together to give you a better photo. I’ll give you a brief introduction on what they do and how they affect your photos turning out too bright, too dark, too blurry or JUST RIGHT. :) This guide will show you how to get the most out of your SLR camera and give you confidence to take it out of auto mode in no time! Left: Canon T2i. Right: Nikon D40. To start, let’s put your camera in Aperture Priority mode or Shutter Priority mode. 1. Let’s talk a little bit about Aperture.

A low aperture will also give you a shallow depth of field. Canon 50mm f/1.8 f/1.8 1/200 sec ISO 800. Basic Photography Q&A. We get a surprising number of e-mails that contain photography related questions. As much as I love taking photos, it is just a hobby and I don't really know that much about it. I took two college courses back when I was a senior in high school (in one of those dual-enrollment programs that our school had) but other than that I have no real knowledge except what I have learned through lots of trial and error. I always feel very insecure answering the questions because I am worried I will tell someone the wrong thing. Because of that I want to make sure I preface this post by saying that I absolutely do not consider myself a "real" photographer and that I do not by any means feel qualified to answer any really in depth questions, but seeing how we do get asked regularly about what camera I use, lenses I use, and photoshop actions I thought I would do my best to post some of the answers I give here as a sort of guide if you are just starting out.

Q: What kind of camera do you use? A. A. Easy Tips for Photographing Food. I had been planning on baking a new dessert to photograph for this tutorial but since returning back home there's been so many other things to catch up on that I haven't had time, so instead I cheated and bought this one little piece of cake from the Fresh Market here in Williamsburg. As I do with most of my photography posts, I do want to give a few quick disclaimers. First, this is just how I do it and not by any means the "right" way to. I am just sharing my rather make-shift way to get some basic yet clean, crisp food images. Second, I took these on an overcast, rainy day so I am not thrilled with how they turned out, but I had already made Lillie and Lola wait a day to eat this and I was pretty sure if I made them wait another day someone was going to end up sneaking a bite, which would leave me with nothing to photograph. =) And third, although I do shoot most of my food related posts with this basic white backdrop, it's not my favorite way to.

And then I played with the curves.