Shooting Tips

Boudoir Photography: 3 Quick Tips on Building Trust With Your Clients

Boudoir photography is not just about taking beautiful images, but it is also knowing how to make your clients feel beautiful. With such an intimate process, building trust between you and your clients is key to helping them connect with you, and the camera.

5 More Simple Tips For Taking Great Family Portraits

Michelle Ford

Five more tips to help photographers take family portraits

Why Are Some People In My Group Portraits So Soft? – Q&A with Matthew Saville

Matthew Saville

Question: What is the best way to get family portraits in focus, without totally sacrificing shallow DOF?  Sometimes people on ...

Golden Gate Bridge Sunset Panorama – How We Shot It

Matthew Saville

This image was captured from the observation deck / bar of the Bank of America Building in San Francisco. The view from up there is stunning, if you are ever interested in finding this perspective it is available to the public, as long as you are dressed "appropriately" for an elite (and expensive!) bar scene...

The Milky Way in Rhyolite Ghost Town – How We Shot It

Matthew Saville

Even though my full-time job is wedding photography, my photographic hobby is the polar opposite! I enjoy photographing nightscapes in the desert, the more remote the better! Here is a relatively easy-access location, Rhyolite Ghost Town, which is just outside of Death Valley National Park. I have been photographing this bank's cement skeleton now since 2005, and it never disappoints!

Android App Highlight: Easy Release

Pye

As a professional photographer on of the things that you really should be doing is getting model releases from anyone that you photograph. In case you do not know, a Model release (in its simplest form) is a legal document that the model and photographer sign that states that the photographer retains the copyright on the images.