Tutorials
The importance of one-on-one portfolio reviews
Portfolio reviews are an essential way to connect with clients and share your work in a personal way. Traditionally, these meetings were almost always in person and tended to involve some travel and a lot of time and money devoted to keeping your book fresh, curated, and up-to-date. Although this is without a doubt still one of the best ways to make a lasting impression on a potential client, there are now many opportunities to share your portfolio virtually and to schedule video meetings rather than to meet in person.
Tips for finding models if you have no budget or portfolio
So, you want to get serious about portrait or fashion photography. But alas, you still don’t have a portfolio, and your budget is tight for professional models. In this article, we’ll share some tips for you to find models even if you have no budget, so you can start building a portfolio and get your career going.
Mastering the Tone Panel, Lightroom’s most important settings
Lightroom offers many editing tools, but the Tone Panel is its very heart. In his latest video, Colin Smith guides us through his process of…
7 practical tips for working with camera gear in the cold
Snowy winter scenes are a photographer’s dream until your gear becomes a moisture magnet. And that moisture can literally transform your entire photographic experience into…
How to record audio for interviews without getting too complicated
It’s not too much of a leap for photographers to move into video. After all, most of the same rules of composition apply, and most…
Make 2024 your best year as a photographer with these tips
It’s a brand new year, and all of us are thinking carefully about what this means for us personally and professionally. If you’re like me,…
Watch this beautiful timelapse about how snowflakes form
If you’ve been lucky enough to have a white Christmas this year, then you might want to take advantage of the snow and photograph some…
A Beauty Portrait with Gravity-Defying Hair
The goal of a beauty portrait is to highlight the subject’s physical beauty. The challenge in adding the word ‘creative’ to the mix is that you…
How to fix slow phone footage on Premiere Pro
If you’re experiencing trouble and slowness when trying to edit phone footage in Premiere Pro, you’re not the only one. Phone footage can give you…
So, you want to photograph a volcano? Here’s all you need to know
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to photograph the raw power of Mother Nature? To feel the ground shake beneath your feet as you quite literally watch molten lava spewing into the sky? Throughout my travels, I’ve been privileged to witness incredible sights from all corners of our marvelous planet. However, I am bluntly honest when I say that nothing I had ever seen had even remotely compared to how epic it was to observe a volcano in action.







































