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 – [...]

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 [...]

Edward Mendes: Tips for Making Great Winter Photographs

Well, in case you haven’t noticed yet, it’s cold!  Winter is here in full force and that usually means photographers start to go into a state of creative hibernate for the winter.  Traditionally winter is the time for us to stay indoors and sort through our film or digital files from the warmer months, make [...]

John Dominick: Using a Polarising Filter for Landscape Photography

All landscape photographers should have a circular polarising filter in their kit bag. The filter itself is actually made up of two pieces of glass, one housed in a rotating ring that is used to adjust the amount of polarisation. There are occasions when nothing, including post production techniques, can produce the same effect of [...]

Jose Antunes: Good weather versus bad weather

Non photographers have the assumption that clear days are the best days for photography and that when it rains we must stay at home. It is not absolutely truth. I have been thinking about writing these notes for some time already, but now, when Winter is about to show up to keep us company, they [...]

Nicola Cocco: How did you shoot VII – Fighters

This works starts with an encounter with Alessandro who is a young Muay Thai Kru (“Kru” means instructor). My knowledge about this martial arts was close to zero, so after talking a bit with him I decided to start following some weekly training and some match. The Muai Thai is a combat sport from Thailand [...]

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