Stock Photographer Yuri Acrus shares some tips on how to choose and communicate with your models

Popularity: 5%

Zurina Bryant – Singapore professional photographer – shows you some tips on how to take good photographs of children.

Popularity: 1%

Learn how you can capture sharp results on moving subjects in the studio which usually really hard to do even when you have the best studio lights available in the market.

Popularity: 1%

Karl Taylor shares some photography tips on understanding light.

Popularity: 1%

The first thing you need to to look for when shooting silhouettes – dark subjects, often in profile with no detail – is a scene in which the background is much brighter than the main subject. Then, of course you will need to find your subject.

Silhouettes of Palm Trees – Canon EOS 5D @ 1/8 sec, f/16

What’s essential is to choose the right subject. The more interesting shape your subject has, the more interesting your photo will be. Don’t wait until there’s a vivid sunset/sunrise before looking round for something to use as a silhouette. However, as you travel around, keep your eyes peeled for suitable subjects. With a little imagination you can also create your own silhouettes by placing something suitable in front of the scene.

Read more »

Popularity: 3%

The video will have some pretty cool snow photography tips and advice by professional photographer Gavin Hoey

Popularity: 1%

You will come across few terms which are used in telling you about how to bring the flash to your control. But unless you have the background of these terms (and how a flash works), it will be a guessing game for you (and land up in the… ‘ok just tell me the settings and I will shoot perfectly’ end of the road).

Read more »

Popularity: 1%

A few weeks back I had visited George Eastman Museum of Photography where there was an exhibition on Travel photography. It was a great experience of watching world’s best photographs showcased in a 2hour tour of the exhibition halls. After looking at most of the photos (half way of the tour), I found an intangible element in almost all the photos. It’s the “story” behind what (and how) the photo has been shot. What can make a simple photograph of two children staring at the camera from inside a window of a mud house in Peru so unique and worth that it was displayed to thousands of people visiting the museum. We all have emotions within us and a careful shot of a scene (may be staged also) can make us laugh, cry or even angry. This is the magic of a photo that tells a story. When a person feels an emotion out of anything, process or event, the person will hardly be able to forget that specific thing, process or event.

Baby Care by Paul Wager

Read more »

Popularity: 2%

Occasionally I get queries from my friends who have recently bought a DSLR that whether they need an external flash for “better” photography specially for indoors. So I thought I would put my few comments of where external flashes can really make the difference and make your photos stand out from the “pop-up” flash photographs.

The “higher” end cameras even do NOT have built-in flashes due to huge limitations of the in-built flash that can become bottleneck to their otherwise excellent image production quality. An external flash provide superior and “more” control over the lighting and exposure of the subject in low light (and even in bright light where you need to fill-flash) situations. Here’s why…

Read more »

Popularity: 2%

This is the continuation and concluding part of my previous article series on Perspectives. I have covered the four basic techniques of creating perspective namely:

I. Blocking, overlap or obstruction
II. Relative Size
III. Linear, Rectilinear and Vanishing Point
IV. Lack of Sharpness, Color Quality or Contrast

You can read the first part of the article here:

Perspective in Photography: Part I

Read more »

Popularity: 5%