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How to Use Your Flash at the Reception
There are literally a million-and-one ways to light a wedding reception, ranging from the cheap and easy, like direct on-camera flash, to the complicated and expensive, like off-camera strobes with radio frequency triggers... |
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Photographers: Know Your Wedding
It's important to not just consider yourself a photographer, you need to possess the knowledge of a wedding coordinator as well. So when a guest turns to you and asks, "Why haven't we started the cake cutting yet?" You have to be able to react and direct... |
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Optimize Your Photography Site for Google
Search engine optimization (SEO) has become increasing popular. After helping many photographers optimize their websites I want to share the most overlooked search engine optimization factor: links... |
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Review: Create Flash Portfolio Site with clickbooq
clickbooq is one of the newest kids on the block. Its ease of use, fully integrated Flash Toolbox console, customer support, and a reliable media delivery system based upon Amazon's S3 web service technology make clickbooq a serious contender to its competitors... |
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Model Release Primer
Learn when a model release is required, your liabilities for using photos for commercial gain, release status definitions, how to maximize your chances to get your model release signed, and download short and full model release form samples... |
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Review: Design Flash Site with BluDomain
Learning to create your own Flash site and maintaining it could be a tremendous challenge. If the above describes your current business predicament, how do you strike a balance between quality, creative freedom, and budget with your Flash photography portfolio website project? |
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Your Rights to Photograph and Image Usage
The knowledge of privacy and usage rights has become one of the most essential skills for any photojournalist or art student. The true meaning of photography location shooting rights and intellectual property ownership is often subjected to interpretation... |
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How Do I Protect My Photos' Copyrights?
One common misconception is: once you've captured the photo, it completely belongs to you. However, in order to claim ownership and file a potential copyright infringement suit, you must properly present and copyright your work, register your photos, and know your rights as a professional photographer.... |
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The Traditional Way to Design Your Wedding
Portfolio Website
Wedding photography portfolio sites are commonly made by user unfriendly pages. In this insightful interview with photojournalist David Hill, he shares his experience as both a photographer and a business owner on the topics of branding and website design philosophies... |
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The Beginning of My Wedding Photography Career
I did not take my myself too seriously in the beginning. Like a typical artist, I embraced the beach with my fiancé in a 13-foot camper trailer. I looked for every possible way to save money. My humble "wedding photography office" consisted of an ink-jet printer and a 12-inch laptop plunked proudly on the dining table... |
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A Photojournalist's Revelation
One of my greatest pleasures was quickly becoming a daily grind. I was spending more time talking to potential clients, and completing business tasks, than I was photographing and collaborating with other artists. I was rapidly falling out of love with photography, and it was becoming a "desk job". How did this happen?
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Danger in Online Wedding Photo Sharing: JPEG Privacy Alert
Wedding couples and professional photographers might not realize the risk of privacy exposure via online sharing of JPEG digital photos. JPEG's metadata is often manapulated by spammers, and non-FCC compliant online marketing agencies to expose the consumer privacy...
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Photography Myth: Art of Stealing Souls
The religious belief that a photo can steal a soul, imprisoning it within its amalgam of polyester, celluloid, salts and gelatin is still shared by many global cultures. From Native Americans to the Aborigines of Australia, there are those who refuse to be photographed..
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