Our 10 favorite fall photography tips - AWAY is HOME

Our 10 favorite fall photography tips - AWAY is HOME: "Each year I head out to the mountains to try and capture autumn’s delicate blush but after taking about two million pictures I have only three that I would keep.

Why?

Because if you’re not careful you end up with lovely fall pictures that all look the same. I worked the Catskill Mountain range with my son Aren and we’ve put together some tips to help you take fresh pictures this fall."

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Waterfall Photography Tips and Techniques – PictureCorrect

Waterfall Photography Tips and Techniques – PictureCorrect: "Waterfalls seem to grab the hearts and minds of people. Go to any location that has one or more waterfalls and it is pretty much a guarantee that they will be a major attraction, if not the main attraction, of the area. However, as beautiful as waterfalls are, it is not so easy to capture that beauty with a camera. It is easy to produce pictures of waterfalls; it is not so easy to produce powerful images."

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How to Take Stunning Portrait Photos – 5 Photography Tips For Beginners | Provide Information & Guide About Digital Camera Online

How to Take Stunning Portrait Photos – 5 Photography Tips For Beginners | Provide Information & Guide About Digital Camera Online: "Taking portrait photos can be a difficult photography skill to master as it solely focuses on human subject’s face and emotions – it is indeed a great challenge to produce spectacular portrait photos that has high aesthetic value like Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and it’s possible to turn real human portrait into an art that many people would appreciate. In fact, this can be possibly done by learning some fundamentals of photography."

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Composition Exercise: Frame Within a Frame - Digital Photography School

Composition Exercise: Frame Within a Frame - Digital Photography School: "I teach a kids photography class (ages 11-15), and this week we started talking about composition. I don’t require a specific type or level of camera, so I have students shooting with DSLRs, as well as students with simple point-&-shoot models. Because of the wide range of cameras, I make this class a little less about the technical and a little more about how they see the world around them."

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Using Umbrellas to Help Imitate Natural Lighting for Portrait Photography (Video) – PictureCorrect

Using Umbrellas to Help Imitate Natural Lighting for Portrait Photography (Video) – PictureCorrect: "Umbrellas are great lighting tools for beginners and pros alike. They’re not too hard to figure out, and they give you great light coverage that you didn’t have before. A more advanced technique with umbrellas is using them to imitate natural light. In this tutorial, Jay P Morgan shows you how to use umbrellas to create a natural daylight look:"

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Common Mistakes in Wildlife and Nature Photography – PictureCorrect

Common Mistakes in Wildlife and Nature Photography – PictureCorrect: "Wildlife photography is both rewarding and frustrating, even for experienced photographers. While a great photo is something to treasure, the challenges of wildlife photography can leave beginners feeling a little lost."

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10 Tips for Better Flower Photography by Digital Photo Secrets

10 Tips for Better Flower Photography by Digital Photo Secrets: "As people, we are awed by nature. Despite everything we arguably do to hinder it, somehow it perseveres on, evidenced by the dandelion stubbornly reaching through a crack in the sidewalk or a tree being born from the ashes of a terrible forest fire. With that awe comes the desire to capture the beauty around us and keep it with us. And as photographers, we do this by taking photographs. Here are ten tips to help you improve your flower photography so you too can take nature’s wonders with you."

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20 Outstanding Low and High Key Photographs by Digital Photo Secrets

20 Outstanding Low and High Key Photographs by Digital Photo Secrets: "Great photos don’t always have to have even lighting or a broad range of tones. You can get truly stunning images with both high-key and low-key lighting. Low-key photos can be captured in your studio with just a single light source, or outside of your studio in low-light situations, provided there’s a strong enough light source somewhere in the scene to provide the contrast that can make or break this type of shot."

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Using lighting style to create mood: High-key and low-key lighting by Digital Photo Secrets

Using lighting style to create mood: High-key and low-key lighting by Digital Photo Secrets: "Intermediate From reading my articles, I’m sure you now know all about light, range of tones, highlight and shadow, and how to make a beautifully-lit, perfectly balanced photo."

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Be the Engineer of Your Own Portfolio Website – PictureCorrect

Be the Engineer of Your Own Portfolio Website – PictureCorrect: "A major aspect of being a professional photographer is to showcase your work online, so that potential clients would find you. But why take the trouble to look for a web designer/developer to help you out, and invest a lot of energy in finding the right web hosting company? There is no need to give up on your plans of getting your hands on that new, state-of-the-art camera just yet. Hold on tight to your money and take matters into your own hands. Create photography websites with IM Creator because it’s a fun and simple process, it’s entirely free of charge, and because you have complete control from beginning to end."

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