There is a ghost sound that haunts old-school photographers, and even new ones who learned from them. It’s a mental “click-clack” that rings in the back of their brain every time they press the shutter. In the era of…
Professional photographers are always “out.” And I don’t just mean they are outdoors; they are out of their comfort zone, dealing with variables that would make an accountant weep. We mortals take photos when our…
The title of this lesson is, let’s admit it, a bit misleading. It promises to teach you how to make people look “better.” But let’s be brutally honest: if the person has been touched by the magic wand of ugliness,…
This is the only moment where we will be brutally honest about money. Scott Kelby begins his lecture on sports photography with a cruel but necessary survey. Look at the price of an average photography book (say, 20…
It’s happened to you. You save up all year. You ask for your two weeks of vacation. You rent an SUV, load up the family, and drive to the edge of the Grand Canyon or Yosemite Park. You stand before the abyss. The…
At the precise moment you tell yourself: “My life is too quiet, I need a little excitement,” is when, for some cosmic reason, you decide to agree to photograph your first wedding. Unlike the controlled studio, where…
You’ve surely been there: you’re walking through a park, you see a spectacular flower, you pull out your camera (or high-end mobile), shoot, and think: “That’s it, I have a work of art.” Flowers seem like the perfect…
Have you ever looked at a double-page spread in a top-tier magazine and asked yourself, “How on earth do they get it to look that sharp?” You look at your own photos on the camera’s LCD screen, and they seem perfect.…
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