Drew Gardner: The Twelve Photography Tips of Christmas

canexback.com Christmas is a time to gather ‘round the fire and celebrate with loved ones at the end of a long year. To help you best savour all your favourite festive moments in years to come (and share them online), professional photographer Drew Gardner has put together a list of twelve tips for great Christmas [...]

Adam Barker: Go to the Light!

clean up my credit report This photography thing–it’s about light! I’ve had many people ask me throughout my career how I achieve “that look” in my imagery. My answer is always the same–it’s about being where you need to be when Mother Nature puts on the light show, and it’s about understanding how to capture [...]

Adam Barker: Unconventional Portrait Tips

For those of you who know my work, you may be surprised to see a blog post from me on portraits. They’re certainly not my forte, and I don’t profess to be an expert to any degree. But perhaps that’s just what some of us might need to shake things up from the more conventional/traditional [...]

Adam Barker: Five tips to help your creative drought

We’ve all been there.  You know–that dark, lonely, nether-region of non-creativity called rutsville. Whether you make your living behind the lens, or just enjoy letting your creative juices flow through the click of a shutter button, no one enjoys going to the well of creativity and coming up dry. Read below for some of my [...]

Top 5 'Trick' Photography Apps for the iPhone

“Trick” photography is where the camera-enabled smartphone comes into its own.  iPhones and their contemporaries have a surprising amount of processing-power, and plenty of apps make use of that power to do clever things to images as soon as you have taken them. There are now a huge number of high-quality apps dedicated to the [...]

Top 5 Free Photography Apps for the iPhone

Despite their price-tag of $0, some of these are among the very best photography apps out there – indeed the reason they are able to be offered to you for nothing is because they have been designed by some of the richest corporations out there – like Microsoft.  Don't be fooled by the price – [...]

Nicola Cocco – How did you shoot that? One day’s dance

This year during the International Dance Day ( April 29 ) the main museum of my city acted  as location for some dance shows. There was a lot of schools and performers like: Cristine Sonia Baraga, Tiziana Bolfe, Gleni Caci, Giada Meggiolaro e Giorgia Nardin. The event was organized by Centro Per La Scena Cotemporanea [...]

Reflections on Wildlife Photography

Shooting blind, or not shooting at all…

Sometimes, as photographers, we find ourselves in situations where it becomes painfully clear that we are not welcome. It happens especially to travel and reportage photographers who often deal with radically different cultures or sensitive environments. Photographing women in a Muslim country is one good example of a difficult task. You immediately realize your artistic [...]

Nicola Cocco / How did you shoot : watchtower in clouds

Empty spaces, nature greatness and good light are always a good mix to achieve a good shoot, that’s almost true if you like some aspect of the classical and emotive photography. I like to keep the “classical roots” in every picture as a base to build more “modern” or conceptual images like in that winter [...]

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