What do you need to be a director of photography? Well, you need technical skills, creativity, vision, patience, you need to be a team player, and you need excellent communication skills. Oh, and let’s not forget experience. A director of photography coordinates the filming on projects and works to create the style, mood, and film… Read more »
Category: Photography
What Is Product Photography?
You experience product photography every day when going about your business. It encompasses every aspect of your life from the makeup and jewelry you wear, to what you buy when you’re shopping, to what you choose to eat, to furnishing your home, and more. It may be a cereal box or a tobacco product. You… Read more »
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Words can convey a lot but they don’t convey everything. Saying that someone is handsome or that a person is wearing red will conjure up an image, but not as sharp, detailed, and vibrant as a visual. You can talk and talk and talk about your value, or about the beauty of what you created,… Read more »
The Benefits Of Professional Photography
With smartphones, today we are all photographers. From selfies to group pictures, to nature and scenery, we can catch any moment, every moment, with a touch of our cell phone screen, and darn those pictures look good. However, your cell phone does not make you a photographer; only an education, experience, and the proper equipment… Read more »
Do I Need a Professional Photographer?
If you have an event coming up, maybe the opening of a new restaurant or even a wedding, you’ve looked into processional photography services. You’ve probably also heard someone say: “Well, your cousin could do it real cheap.” Unfortunately, the phenomenon of “everyone is a photographer” is widespread, with people entrusting their portraits, business photography,… Read more »
What Type of Photography Does My Blog Need?
What’s the old saying, “A picture says a thousand words?” Well, no one wants to read a thousand words on a blog. You cut to the chase and images can really help you do so. Whether you’re discussing menu items at your restaurant or showing photos from a company gathering, you need images to make… Read more »
Weird is the Word: Creative Photography Trends for 2015
Commercial photography, creative photography, or stock photography. Call it what you will, but high-quality pictures for advertisements, blogs, and websites are an industry to themselves and, as such, are subject to trends. Getty Images, the ubiquitous, Seattle-based stock photography juggernaut, just released their 2015 webinar discussing what trends will move the industry in 2015. Today,… Read more »
Why Your Online Store Needs Professional Product Photography Now!
A quick online search will yield you plenty of blog posts and articles offering tips and tricks for taking good product pictures for your online store or business. While do-it-yourself product photography is a good option for some businesses, if you don’t have the right equipment and know-how, you’re going to end up with less-than-stellar… Read more »
When Smartphone Pictures Don’t Quite Measure Up
A vast majority of Americans now own smartphones. One of the most used features on smartphones are their cameras. When cell phone cameras first came into existence, the grainy, low-quality photographs produced were novel, but not anything you might want to frame. Now, various apps and add ons can allow the average Joe or Jane… Read more »
Portraits to Remember your Favorite Relatives By
American culture may seem obsessed with youth, as a whole. But if you think about your family, there are most likely at least one or two beloved elders well into their seventies, eighties, and nineties. We can’t keep everyone in our family by our side forever. The mysteries of beyond become an answer known to… Read more »