Photographing Waterfalls: Tips, Equipment and Techniques

Waterfall photography is a captivating and challenging genre of landscape photography, offering endless opportunities to capture the beauty and power of nature.

In this article, we will explore various techniques and tips that will help you create stunning waterfall shots.

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Guide to Fashion Photography: Everything you Need to Know

Do you want to become a fashion photographer? If so, then this guide to fashion photography is the perfect place to start.

Model in a fashion shoot

This guide will provide all the essential knowledge required for anyone to get into fashion photography, from equipment needed, cameras and lenses that work best, settings including aperture and shutter speed as well as lighting techniques. Plus movement, composition advice, information on how to get models – even specific websites where they can be found.

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Is Photography an Expensive Hobby? The Honest Truth

Many people are interested in taking up photography as their hobby.

photographer on a mountain

There are some costs involved in photography, which are pretty high compared to other hobbies like painting, stitching, etc. So, how much will it cost? How to reduce the cost? We will find the answers to all these questions through this guide. Let us get started.

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Why It’s So Hard To Be a Photographer These Days

Today, with the advent of digital photography, anyone with a decent camera believes they can take good photographs, which isn’t entirely incorrect. Modern technologies like auto focusing, auto exposure (these two have been around for a couple of decades, by the way,) auto panorama stitching, and intelligent eye-tracking, to name but a few, have made the need to hire a professional photographer redundant.

These days almost anyone with a decent camera and a little know-how can easily pull off some great photos. Day by day, the competition to be a photographer is becoming stiff. So, is there still a place for a pro photographer in today’s digital world?

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Work & Travel: 12 Tips to Using Your Photography Skills

Spending time away from home is always an exciting opportunity to experience new things and discover places you’ve never seen before. This is particularly pertinent to photographers, both amateur and professional. There are hundreds of suggestions about taking photos while you’re traveling, so many that it can become overwhelming rather than helpful.

man with camera at a lake

In this article, we’re going to provide you with 12 tips to take your photography up a notch the next time you go on an adventure.

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How to Create an NFT from a Photo? Guide to Minting and Selling

NFTs are proving to be an additional income generation method for photographers. Photos sitting on your hard drive can be converted to NFTs and sold. But many photographers still don’t know how to do it, thinking that NFTs are too complex and hard to understand as is blockchain technology.

HDR photo for NFT

As a photographer, you need to know which images can be sold as NFTs and what are the best NFT platforms for photography.  In this article, I will explain everything about NFTs as simply as possible as I have knowledge of the field. You will also learn how to mint and sell your first NFT without needing to be a crypto expert.

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Landscape Drone Photography – A Complete Guide

Drones have brought in a fresh new perspective to a lot of photography and videography genres. Thanks to their ability to capture these unique aerial perspectives drones are being increasingly used across all genres of photography. Landscape photography is no exception.

Drone photographing a landscape

Having dabbled with drones for the past 1 and 1/2 years, almost exclusively for landscape photography I’m in a position to summarize my experience for your benefit so that if you are also looking to make a start in drone photography you can start on the right footing.

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Product Photography: The Ultimate Guide

Product photography is one of the more technical types of photography. Whether I decide to shoot natural light or create in my studio, I need to be aware of and control everything in the area. Lighting, product position, depth of field, image stabilization, and the brand itself all come together in a product shoot.

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So what are the first things to consider if I decide to try a DIY product shoot? My tools, of course.

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5 Ways to Promote Your Photography Business

You worked really hard to learn the skills that you need to be a fantastic photographer and you worked even harder to build your business. But, for your business to succeed long-term, you need to have a solid marketing plan in place.

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Check out the five tips below for effectively marketing your photography company to the masses.

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