Essential Photography Equipment Checklist

Forgetting a critical battery, filter, gel, or other piece of gear can have significant effects on your shoot. It’s easy to forget small but important items. While we would not likely walk out of the door without our camera body, we might forget the all important Pocket Wizard Cable and thus be unable to execute certain off-camera lighting techniques.

Photography Gloves | To Wear or Not?

As the weather continues to cool down this winter, many in our community have been asking about the gloves that Pye often wears on his shoots. So we wanted to write up a quick article to give a few recommendations for Photography Gloves and start a discussion for the best ones on the market. Main …

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Best Email Marketing Service for Photographers | Aweber vs Mailchimp

There are plenty of ways to market your business; and with limited time and resources, it’s hard to determine which ones are worth pursuing. The argument for Email Marketing Campaigns is that Google search algorithms change, social networks come and go, but people will always check their email. This is why it’s important to at least consider a newsletter service. It’s easier than you think and often times it can be free.

5 Reasons the Canon Pixma Pro-1 Rocks

SLR Lounge and Calumet Hollywood is teaming up to give our readers a free giveaway for the flagship Canon Pixma Pro-1. So what makes this printer so great? Here are 5 great reasons why you should want this printer!

Wedding Dress Photography Tutorial

Wedding dress shots are some of my favorite ones to take throughout the wedding day. It’s one of the few times in the day when you have full control of almost everything, from the lighting to the background. You have the luxury to take your time and set up the perfect shot before the craziness of the day kicks in. Here are 10 tips to get better wedding dress photos.

Canon 5D Mark II Review

Search the phrase “Canon 5D Mark II Review,  and you’ll find more information than one can process. Some of the reviews are technical, done thoroughly by reputable magazines and professionals in the industry. Others are purely subjective, written by frustrated or happy consumers expressing their opinions with their limited knowledge and experience. This review is somewhere in the middle, leaving out the inapplicable detail, but thorough enough to make a good case for purchasing the camera as a professional wedding and engagement photographer.