Look Lock dangles a phone over your camera ... for young portrait subjects

Look Lock dangles a phone over your camera ... for young portrait subjects: "People love seeing photos of their kids looking directly at the camera, but unfortunately anyone who has ever tried to take a photograph of an easily-distracted child knows how hard that can be to get. TetherTools claims it's solved this problem with an articulating arm that holds a smartphone above the DSLR lens, giving little photo subjects something to look at."

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Digital Photography Super Guide: How to Correct Your Photos | PCMag.com

Digital Photography Super Guide: How to Correct Your Photos | PCMag.com: "So you've taken some photos with your new digital camera, or even with your smartphone. What next? You could simply save, share, or print them as is, but a little effort with your photo software can turn washed out, dark, or poorly framed photos into something far more pleasing and impressive."

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Digital Photography Super Guide:How to Organize Your Photos | PCMag.com

Digital Photography Super Guide:How to Organize Your Photos | PCMag.com: "If you're serious about digital photography, or just want to be able to find, share, and protect your best images easily, you need a workflow. Sure some people just snap away on their phone or point and shoot, and show the photos to whoever's around on the back of the device. The next, very popular practice is to simply copy photos onto a folder on your PC's hard drive, and then maybe attach them to an email to friends and family. But these approaches often leave users at a loss when trying to find that special image or set of photos among the thousands they've shot, and don't help with organizing groups of photos."

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Strobist: On Photographing People: Pt. 1

Strobist: On Photographing People: Pt. 1: "Sara Lando is an occasional contributor to Strobist, but is also a commercial photographer based in Milan, Italy. Today, I am very pleased to present the first in her three-part series on photographing people."

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17 things photographers should not do | Rosh Sillars

17 things photographers should not do | Rosh Sillars: "We know what photographers should do, but what about what you should not do or spend too much time on?  Here is my list of  17 things photographers should not do:"

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Interview with a Photography Collector --- How to Get Your Work in Front of a Collector | Chase Jarvis Blog

Interview with a Photography Collector --- How to Get Your Work in Front of a Collector | Chase Jarvis Blog: "W.M. Hunt is a champion of photography – A collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York. He is the author of “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious,” published in 2011 by Aperture. He is on the Board of Directors of the Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York, where he was the recipient of their Vision Award in 2009."

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How to Take Extraordinary Photos by Thinking Creatively

How to Take Extraordinary Photos by Thinking Creatively: "The creativity in your photographs is what will make your imagery stand out. Most of us, if we commit the time, can technically master the craft of photography. Capturing a compelling image can be much more difficult especially when you are excited, experiencing something for the first time, and are visually overloaded."

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