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Landscape Photography TipsNovember 14

Dalaguete (Cebu, Philippines), REVISITED

Landscape photography is one of the toughest forms of photography; it demands a great deal of care when selecting a location to shoot. One of the biggest mistakes amateur photographers make when arriving at a scene is to start shooting straight away. They end up shooting dull, lifeless images that lack colour and impact.

When arriving at a scene the first thing a photographer should do is to walk the scene with your camera and a compass. The compass is used to see where light will rise in the morning and set in the evening. I bring my camera just in case I arrive at a perfect moment.

I start by recording the scene. I record the best time to return so the morning light will bring out the best in the area. I also try to record how the evening light will embrace the scene. Low morning light usually brings out the best in any landscape setting and adds mood and impact to a scene.

Promote Your Photography Site - Part 2November 12

As discussed earlier in part 1 of promoting your photography site - photography directories are certainly the best way to start promoting your images and business. The second and another great way to get visitors to your site is by using photography forums.

Photography forums are an online chat centre where you can discuss all types of photography, get tips from other photographers and create good quality links to your site.

Photography forums are pretty simple to use - first you must register, then you are free to ask and give advice, discuss all the latest camera equipment and much more - the choice of topic is yours - all while promoting your own website. Some forums will allow you to show your images to promote your site even further.

For anyone interested in using forums as a promotional means, and to make sure you get the very most out of them, sign every comment you make with a link to your site. It is truly that simple. You get inbound links to your site while discussing your hobby or giving advice about your work.

Promote Your Photography Site - Part 1November 10

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You may have spent a great deal of time and money creating the perfect Website - your photography images may be superb, but if people cannot find your site your images and talent along with your business may become a white elephant.

Promoting your Website is not that difficult but will take up some of your precious time. My advice for you is to set out a few hours per week for this.

If your Website is new the chances are that Google, Yahoo or any search engine won’t index your site for a few months. And it may even take several months before they place it to appear when someone types in a search phrase that suits your site. So you need to give your photographs and business a reasonable chance of getting paying customers.

When a search engine index’s your Website it looks to see how many links point to your site. The more links you can create the better your site will rank, but only if they are the right kind of links. Don’t spend hours and hours online getting thousands of standard ordinary links. Get links that relate to your site. Get links from other photography sites.

Wedding Photography TipsNovember 7

Wedding photography can be very rewarding for a professional photographer, but for a beginner it may seem like a daunting task. But don’t worry - if you are capable of taking great images and willing to prepare in advance, the job is not that hard.

There are also great chances for any photographer to make a good living or few extra quid if done part time - assuming you do the job correctly.

Preparation is the key to becoming a great professional wedding photographer; this is assuming that your technical skills are up for the job. If you prepare properly the task at hand will be so much easier, and the family concerned will be most pleased.

You need to prepare well in advance of the big day - this means meeting the couple to discuss what they would like. It also means that you need to contact the priest or whoever is celebrating the service and find out about guidelines that he may impose. For example, in some churches they do not allow strobe units to be used.

Triangles and Diamonds - Building Blocks For a Great PortraitNovember 5

As a child when you first started stacking things (blocks for example); you probably learned some things you have forgotten by now. In the beginning, we all tend to just put things directly on top of each other just to see how high we can go. It may be fun at the time, but this way of stacking tends to be unstable and our blocks fall over a lot.

Then at a certain point, we learn that if we put one block across two (forming a triangle or small pyramid) that is seems a lot more stable. Once we comprehend this point, we start making our triangles wider, or deeper, or both. Thus we learn; when we build things, the parts must interact for the good of the whole.

Similar to building with blocks, when we start “stacking people” in a portrait it really does matter where you place each person. With only two blocks you can go sideways or on top of each other and things are still pretty stable. However, when you talk about people and photography, there is another factor to consider.

Generally straight lines are boring and diagonal lines are visually more interesting. So, with two people you place the first person at a 45% angle as your starting bl