There are many places you can learn photography, but what is the right place for you? Sure there are online schools and courses, but they won’t give you the hands-on information you need. You need other students and the teacher’s eyes to become a better photographer. The online classes do have their uses for instance giving you the basic information to study. It can be difficult to...

As the crowd pushes closer around the crime scene and yellow tape gets strung around the place of murder, theft, or other forms of violence, little white chalk people get drawn around a corpse and its contortions there from the sidelines with a bag and lighting equipment comes the often unsung hero of our Articles. He or she is an important part of every investigation, with their sharp eye for...

When you see videos of the early developers of photography, it’s pretty funny especially in light of photography today.  In those old movies, to get a picture, the camera was as big as a computer is a today.  The photographer had to put his head under a sheet and hold up a huge tripod that exploded with smoke and fumes to make the flash.   Today photography could not be...

If you are a sports fan, you know what it means when a team goes into a “rebuilding year”.  It is just when the owners or coaches decide it's time to train new members and correct bad habits in others.  And invariably, what team leadership says when they go into such a time is that they are going “back to basics.” Sometimes it’s good for us as...

It’s interesting how sometimes older technologies or art forms take on an even greater value when they are made obsolete by the new and modern.  This is certainly true of black-and-white photography.  When color photography came on the scene, it seemed the days of black and white in both video and photography were over forever.   But that was certainly not the case....

Whether you are looking for the right path for your budding student photographer in your family or looking at how to jump-start your own photography career, the right school can make all the difference.  There is no question that photography is an outstanding career path with many different directions that someone skilled with a camera might go.   The diversity of careers in...