Sometimes you just want a clean and quick setup to start a shoot off the right way. Sure, you may have a ton of creative ideas in store for later on in the day, but they may be new ideas you’ve never tried before or they may be more experimental. If that’s the case, I always find it smart to start a shoot with a tried and true setup that’s not too tricky to do, quick to set up and provides great shots each and every time....
In the studio, making your subjects stand out from their background is relatively straightforward. Because you have control over everything. You choose what goes behind them, what lights you use, and where they go. Outdoors, though, these options aren’t always available to us. We have to work with what our environment provides. So, how can we get some separation between our subject and their background on location? In this video from photographer Moose Winans, we hear what’s going through his mind when photographing things outdoors....
Starting your photographic journey is really exciting and oh so overwhelming. You’ll read all kinds of tips, hear all sorts of opinions, and it’s difficult to weed out the useless things. Well, Omar Gonzalez is here to help you with it. In his video, he suggests six things new photographers should ignore when they’re just starting out. 1. Fancy gear 1. Fancy gear If you’re just starting out, there’s no use to buy flashy, expensive kits....
If you’re a creative professional, chances are you have a number of hard skills that should make it ridiculously easy for you to make money online. But there’s a catch…it is very difficult to make enough money for long enough to truly earn a living based solely on online revenue sources. In this article, I will explore some of the opportunities available to creative professionals to generate income online, and some of the reasons why it’s so hard to earn enough money to truly make a living....
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has finished the fifth stage of its mirror alignment, and everything went well. In fact, it went so well that the telescope has even exceeded NASA’s expectations. Judging from the latest results, JWST will be able to meet or even exceed the goals scientists have set for it. As NASA explained in a recent blog post, there are seven phases of Webb’s mirror alignment before it becomes fully operational and starts gathering data....
