The road to becoming a professional photographer; making money with your camera seems obvious. People love your work, ask you to take their picture and your only expense, since you use a digital camera, is your time. You also know that you can print an 8 x 10 for $2 at your local Mart, and [...]

HDR refers to High Dynamic Range. Dynamic Range is the difference between the brightest and darkest parts of photographs that still show detail. For most people that probably doesn’t mean much. It will help you to see the difference: The image on the left is a sunset photograph with normal dynamic range. The image to [...]

So, the big day has arrived. You are at the wedding venue at the prescribed time, you are ready with gear in hand, batteries charged up, and possibly if you are lucky, a second shooter ready to go. Suddenly, it hits you. You are in charge of preserving this sacred day. A wedding day that [...]

Why You Can’t Sell $10 8 x 10′s and have a real business All Businesses are in business to make a profit and all businesses have costs.  If your photography business doesn’t make a profit or you make less than minimum wage working in your business, what is the point of all the stress, worry [...]

Photography Posing Tips for Photographing Men, Women, and Groups Remember the time you photographed your model? You set up the photograph, make sure your background is appropriate, the light’s great and you click the shutter. And then you look at the back of your camera and your subject looks heavy. You look at it on [...]