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...

In the past, you simply did not have to make a choice between any other photography methods than film. Everyone had a film camera and everyone either learned to develop their own film or took it to their local processor. Now, you do have a choice and many people who are used to filming wonder, which is better. Today we have film cameras and digital cameras. Here are the pros and cons of using...

The controversy about whether photography is art is one that has been raging in the art world for a long time and we are not likely to totally solve it here.  But it can be an important decision you have to make if you are considering a career in photography with the goal of producing quality art works.  If that is where you are, the idea that someone would say “That’s not...

Photography requires a few skills to make your prints look professional. One part of making a print professional is lighting. Lighting in photography takes a little planning and an understanding of a few techniques. Your best subject or object might not turn out that way if the proper light does not help to laminate the area. Below are a few tips on using light for photography. First, you must...

Photography is art. Individuals will spend hours in museums and galleries analyzing a person’s photographs for their meaning. Like painting photographs have a message, sometimes it will evoke sadness, happiness, a carefree attitude, and thought. There are many techniques a budding photographer will learn to evoke the emotions they desire. One such technique is using artificial lighting....

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...

When you are a kid and thinking about the many ways you can make a living when you grow up, what is the advice your elders always gave you?  It was, “Do what you love to do and you will always be happy.”  And that has to be true because if you can spend your work week doing what you love the most, it really won’t work as much as it will be playing that people pay you...

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...