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Have you ever watched a behind-the-scenes video of a photoshoot and see the subject moving between different poses as the photographer snaps away? This is called flow posing and it is one of my favorite photography pose options for beautiful and natural looking shots. My Favorite Photography Pose – What is Flow Posing? Flow posing […]

Now that we’ve gone through lighting and location decisions, we can get to the fun stuff – posing! This is the first in a blog series about some of my favorite photography poses and let me tell you, we are starting with a good one. Walking! Now, it may not sound super exciting or fun, […]

With the wealth of articles about how to improve your photography skills across the internet, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Especially when the skills all seem to build upon each, so if you don’t understand one, then it seems impossible to understand anything else. I get it. I remember feeling that […]

If you’re starting to feel confident with some of the lighting principles we’ve already discussed, you might be wondering what you can do to start building on that knowledge. Backlighting is a bonus skill that you can start to cultivate that take your photography up a notch. It absolutely isn’t necessary and isn’t something you’ll […]

Managing Highlights and Whites in Bright Photos – Intro One of the main ways to asses a photograph, is to see where you eye goes first. Ideally, your eye will go to the subject first and everything else will be context and background. Having extreme highlights and whites in bright photos, will almost always distract […]

I’ve looked around a location and felt my heart pounding as I saw how busy it was. How many people milling around. How many potential posing locations already claimed. The mounting pressure and disappointment. Wondering if you’re going to get great photos despite the amount of people around. Will it all be a waste? If […]

When you are on location and trying to pick a spot to start shooting, you have to decide what you want in the photo and what you don’t. Composition basically comes down to deciding what to keep in and out of the photograph. The vibe or look you’re going for can help start making these […]

Everything in photography is really about how your eye is taking in the photo. Lighting is about creating a consistent aesthetic so your eye will naturally go to the subject and not be distracted by another aspect. (Unless that is what you’re going for.) Leading lines photography is another way that we can subtly direct […]

When choosing a photo shoot location, you have to think about two major categories – the location in general and the amount of places you have at that location to pose. In other words, you have to decide where you are going to pictures and then specifically where you (or your subject) are going to […]

Interested in the rest of my series on light? Check them all out here! Now that we’ve learned about how to understand the natural light we are working with, we can move on to other factors that also impact how light or dark a photo feels. One of the key considerations is the background of […]

Interested in my entire blog series on light? Check them all out here. Now that we’ve talked through the different types of light, we can start complicating it. (Yay!) Sometimes light is consistent throughout the entire frame or your photo. If you have open shade on both your subject and in the background, then you’re […]

Out of all of the factors when taking photos, I will always argue that light is the most important. That’s why I (and so many others) spend so much time perfecting our own lighting techniques and teaching them to others. As I’ve covered in previous blog posts, there is an art to picking the right […]