Photography Concentrate

When you first get into photography, you might feel like you’ve entered a different world. Everyone talks funny, and seems obsessed over completely mundane details, like the speed of glass. You might be left bewildered, wondering just when glass started to move on it’s own, and what’s ...

Photo sessions are a pretty crappy time for things to go wrong. It’s embarassing, and stressful, and just the thought of mishaps can give you nightmares.  

But half of the battle is knowing that things will probably go wrong at some point. As weird as that sounds, if you ...

An incredibly valuable, but often overlooked, asset for any photography business is a client database. Early in your career you may find it easy to remember all the people you’ve worked with, but after a couple years the number grows and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of ...

To be a great photographer, hobbyist or pro, takes courage. You have to constantly be pushing yourself to go outside of your comfort zone, and do new things. Try a different style of shooting. Set up a type of session you’ve never done before. Start a new business. Introduce ...

Great composition can do many wonderful things for your images, but one of its most important functions is to direct the viewer’s attention where you want it to go. Unfortunately it’s very easy to make little mistakes that end up becoming super distracting. Luckily, it’s just as ...

Shooting outdoors is wonderful. When it’s warm. When it’s cold, or raining, things tend to be a little less awesome outside. But if you live anywhere with winter, that would mean that for half of the year you can’t shoot. Oh, what is a photographer to do ...

Last month Adobe released Lightroom 4, a new version of their popular image editing software. This update brings some interesting changes to the program and new features that will certainly be helpful to photographers.

I’ve spent a ton of hours in Lightroom 4, checking it out and seeing how ...

Another Getting The Shot feature for you today! These posts are a chance to hear about the process involved in creating a photo, from start to finish. 

Today’s image is from a roadtrip we took at the end of February. We drove all around Arizona and New Mexico, with ...

Being photographed can be an incredibly insightful process!
Image by pink sugar photography.

When photographer and subject have a connection and understanding between them, the photos that are created can be powerful and real. That’s pretty straightforward, right? But the big question is “How on earth do I create ...

Would you sell limes by saying that they’re green?

Whether you’re a professional photographer, or plan to be a lifelong hobbyist, you should learn about selling. That probably sounds weird, since a hobbyist shooter may never exchange their images for money. So why should they learn to sell ...