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All you need to know about logos and making one as a photographer
Lindsay Thompson & Polly Gaillard
The photographer logo or wordmark is the foundation of your visual identity — the visual representation of your company’s brand and core values. A logo...
Try this simple smartphone double exposure pano on your next photo walk
Jefferson Graham
Once upon a time, I used to spend hours in the darkroom, making elaborate double exposures with negatives. Then, in the digital era, I started...
Four strategies for selling more photographic prints
Cheryl Dell'Osso
Photography is a form of art, and art was never meant to live solely inside a computer screen. Sure, your clients may be excited about...
Can you do bird photography with an iPhone?
Jefferson Graham
One of the most popular photo seminars in the world happens every December, when hundreds of photographers flock to the tiny town of Socorro, New...
Everything you wanted to know about humanitarian photography
Polly Gaillard
While humanitarian photography may seem like a combination of documentary, editorial, and photojournalism, its history has a long tradition of photographers advocating for change. Early twentieth-century...
Can you shoot underwater Photography with an iPhone?
Jefferson Graham
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we tried to revive wet smartphones by sticking them in a bag of rice and hoping for the...
How I built a DIY 180 orbiting rig using readily available parts
Chung Dha
I recently built this DIY 180 orbit rig from available camera accessories. To make shots like this. You might think why not just use a...
How I made a DIY remote mechanical cable release for my large format cameras
Cheng
If you have been reading my blog or watching my YouTube channel, you would know that I do mainly large format photography. I often take...
Nikon Z9 first impressions from a long-time Nikon shooter
Reed Hoffmann
In all my years in photography, I don’t think any camera has had as much buzz leading up to its release as the Nikon Z 9....
How I shot these vertical panoramic images in the world’s most stunning churches and cathedrals
Richard Silver
Vertical Churches of the World is a project that began in 2012 in New York. It’s been ongoing since then and the project has been...