How to Photograph Museums and Galleries

How to Photograph Museums and Galleries
Behind the often stolid walls of our galleries and museums lies objects of often indescribable beauty. Art, archaeology, artifacts taken out of their context and displayed for us to admire, comprehend, understand and where we often feel the inadequacy of our own capacity to duplicate, replicate, imitate or emulate.

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Digital Photo - High-Contrast Light | DPmag.com

Digital Photo - High-Contrast Light
When we first learn to compose portraits, we discover how well soft light works on faces. Big, soft sources—windows, softboxes, umbrellas—deliver beautiful, diffused light that hides skin flaws like wrinkles and blemishes. The next thing we know, we're using soft light for all of our portraits, and why wouldn't we? Our subjects are happy and our portraits look great in that beautiful soft light. So what's the problem?

Properties of Light and How to Apply Them in Photography – PictureCorrect

Properties of Light and How to Apply Them in Photography
In each and every art form there is always a medium or a number of specific mediums related to that particular art. For sculpture it can be stone, glass or wood, whereas for painting it can be colour, metal or paint applied to a hard medium.

7 Deadly Mistakes You Might Be Making On Your Photography Website

7 Deadly Mistakes You Might Be Making On Your Photography Website: "Google tells us that there are almost one million photography websites on the web right now. This is bad news for you.

The good news is that most of these websites suck."

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Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com - Windows Live

Hotmail - sgpease@msn.com - Windows Live
Recently I received an invitation letter with a photo stamp in my mailbox and was struck by how much of an impression a little stamp can make. Seems like a great promotional opportunity for any photographer to attract new customers. I decided to look into how to do it myself and figured out that it’s pretty cheap and simple.

Canon Announces New S100 and SX40 High-End Point-and-Shoot Cameras | PCWorld

Canon Announces New S100 and SX40 High-End Point-and-Shoot Cameras | PCWorld: "Canon announced two new cameras Thursday morning as part of its PowerShot line of point-and-shoot cameras. The two models, the S100 and the SX40 HS, are upgrades for the S95 and the SX30 IS respectively and both cameras are seeing incremental upgrades rather than radical changes."

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Photographing Kids in Noon Day Sun [Behind the Shot]

Photographing Kids in Noon Day Sun [Behind the Shot]: "It is rare that I get any significant amount of time alone with either one of my twins. I love getting to know them as individuals. Most of the time spent with my daughter, Clover, without her twin brother or their older sister is spent somewhere in or near the children’s hospital."

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12 Tips for Photographing Stunning Sunsets

12 Tips for Photographing Stunning Sunsets: "Many travelers seem to live by this mantra – however most sunset and sunrise photographs that I see are quite disappointing."

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Photography Tips for Mist, Fog, Condensation and Hail – PictureCorrect

Photography Tips for Mist, Fog, Condensation and Hail – PictureCorrect: "Soon we will be considering photography tips on waves, waterscapes, waterfalls, reflections, abstracts, splash ‘n spray, foam ‘n bubbles, and puddles as remedies for the photo doldrums. But, water can provide even more photo op’s! Here are 4 more:"

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Jewelry Photography Tips - How to photograph Jewelry

Jewelry Photography Tips - How to photograph Jewelry: "As you may know by now, jewelry is very difficult to photograph because it reflects in many cases up to 99% of the light is receives. It is very shiny, highly polished and above all this it may contain color stones or diamonds that make the job even harder."

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