Photography Concentrate

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 ...

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 ...

“What if it rains???” That’s a question that every wedding photographer will eventually hear. Portrait photographers too. And it’s an important one. Rain doesn’t really jive well with people photography, and so it’s up to the shooter to figure out a backup plan. It can seem ...

Photographs deal in split seconds. There is a mere instant seperating an incredible image from a mediocre one. Learning to develop your photographic reflexes is a huge part of creating better work, but it’s not just a matter of reaction time. No sir. 

See, there are decisions that you ...

Have you ever seen the work of a great photographer and felt this simultaneous combination of “Wow, this is so awesome!” and “Man, I really suck.”

Well, join the club, my friend. I think we all feel that way at some point. I mean, you want to be looking at ...

I love to photograph people laughing. It’s such a happy, unguarded moment that, if shot well, can put on a smile on your face for years and years to come. But shooting people laughing isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. It takes a bit of thought to ...

A lot of what we learn as photographers comes directly from our own experiences. This is one experience that has benefited us so much that we want to share our story. It might not be typical, or it might be completely ordinary, but either way we hope it might encourage ...

Doesn’t it seem crazy that I’m writing a huge article about something that sounds so simple? I mean, your friends are some of your favourite people in the world. Photographing them should be easy!

But, if you’re like us, you’ll know it’s not quite so ...

Sorting your images and choosing between similar photos is always a tricky task. How to decide which one is stronger?? It’s more of an art than a science, and takes practice! To help you with process here’s another episode of Side by Side! 

This video will help give ...

On Monday we posted our absolutely enormous review of the Sony NEX, and chatted a ton about how awesome it is for people wanting to shoot their travels and their lives!

And that probably got you pretty excited! Either to get a NEX, or even just to take whatever little ...