commercial photography

    First AI model agency opens with no real life photographers or models
    Mar 10, 2023 Alex Baker

    Are you an influencer or own a small brand? Do you need a regular number of photographs to run your business? Do you hate paying…

    Starting out? Don’t try to work your way up the professional ladder
    Jan 25, 2023 Alex Baker

    If you’re an aspiring professional photographer or even an existing pro who wants to get better-paying, bigger clients, then it makes sense to start small…

    breakdown of a photoshoot

    Deconstructing two commercial shoot frames
    Nov 13, 2022 Hadar Cohen

    Creating a commercial shoot from scratch is somewhere between business and art. On the art side, you want to make sure you are proud of…

    How to collaborate with brands to create your own filmmaking and photography project ideas
    Oct 11, 2022 Isaac Alvarez

    As a creative, more specifically as a Photographer/Film Maker, we tend to get gigs all over the city. From big Production to small, low-budget clients,…

    Which of these images was made using CGI and which is a photograph? Can you tell the difference?
    May 12, 2022 Alex Baker

    One of the above images was created using a camera and modern commercial lighting with familiar retouching techniques using software such as Photoshop. The other…

    Popular gym-wear brand slammed for lack of diversity in leaked image from photo shoot
    May 3, 2022 Alex Baker

    Active-wear brand Gymshark has provoked anger after a behind-the-scenes image from a recent photoshoot was leaked on Facebook. The image shows 7 models, all of…

    This is what you should charge for your photography
    Nov 15, 2021 Alex Baker

    “What should I charge for my photography?” “Where can I go to find out how much to charge?” Commercial photographer and long-standing educator and mentor…

    This is why you keep getting nightmare clients and how to stop it
    Nov 11, 2021 Alex Baker

    The nightmare client. They are everywhere it seems, and if you’re working in any kind of creative business you’ve probably come across at least one…

    How to use flash if you don’t like photos to look flashy
    Feb 14, 2021 Douglas Fry

      If I lay my cards on the table, in my personal and professional work I prefer to avoid the use of flash in favour…

    Is photography going cameraless? Shutterstock buys CG market Turbosquid for $75,000,000
    Jan 29, 2021 John Aldred

    It’s been said for years that CG is coming to take away jobs from photographers and in some respects, that may be true. We know…