The point of this genre is to help sell a business’ professional services or for use in internal communications. Candid Photography This style is a little like street photography in that you usually photograph your subjects without them knowing it. ...
There are many different types of photography. And if you're picking up a camera for the first time, it can be confusing. There are so many styles and categories that you might not know which to choose.
OCD sharpness junkies have a special workflow set up for culling images. They view every single image at 100% zoom during the culling process only for one reason – to assess the sharpness of each photograph. If a photo turned out to be slightly out of focus or blurry, it must be eradic...
A subgenre of the field of photography known as architectural photography focuses primarily on taking pictures of architectural structures that are pleasing to the eye. The first architectural photograph was "View from the Window at Le Gras" by Nicéphore Niépce. Similarly, early photographs taken by...
A basic rule of photography is to follow therule of thirds, which helps photographers take well-aligned photographs. Compositionally, if you divide the frame of the photography by thirds both vertically and/or horizontally, the most interesting part of the photograph should be at one of the inte...
Any lens can be used to make great images. You just can’t get every type of photograph with every lens. Some lenses are better in some situations than other lenses. The trick is to figure out your goal and then balance that with your budget. ...
By the way – sharing this beach with these penguins at sunrise that morning was one of the highlights of my life. I went deliberately to photograph the penguins – and they might be small in the frame, but they do capture all of our visual attention. ...
As you can guess by the name, the wide angle lens allows you to gain a wider view of what you’re trying to photograph (think: outstretched murals and architectural grandeur). Basically, anytime you want to capture everything your eyes can see in a single frame and then some, a wide ...
Some of the more crude types might say that the hero image is to landscape photography what full nudity is to he human body. It’s bare-all, nothing left to the imagination photo making. It’s the big picture. It’s the type of photograph that leads the viewer to think, “I want ...
Steve McCurry:Steve McCurry is a well known photographer that uses vibrant, saturated images that tell profound human histories, famous for his iconic photograph “Afghan Girl”, which was originally shot on film, however has technology evolved, McCurry continued his documentation of human stories aro...