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How Add Fill Light to Portrait Photos Using the Built-in Flash on Your Camera

Welcome back to ‘Introduction to Flash Photography‘. In this lesson, you’ll learn about the flash that many DSLRs have built right into them. This flash is known as the pop-up flash because it pops up when you want to use it. In my opinion, the best time to use a pop-up flash is never, if… Continue reading How Add Fill Light to Portrait Photos Using the Built-in Flash on Your Camera

How to Bounce Your Flash for Soft Lighting in Portrait and Event Photos

Welcome back to ‘Introduction to Flash Photography‘. In this lesson we’re going to be learning about bouncing flash. I think that bouncing flash is probably the easiest and quickest way to improve your flash photography. Bouncing flash is just what it sounds like. Instead of pointing your flash directly at your subject, what you want… Continue reading How to Bounce Your Flash for Soft Lighting in Portrait and Event Photos

A Photographer’s Guide to On-Camera Flash and Speedlight Features

Welcome back to our Introduction to Flash Photography series. In this lesson, we’re learning all about the different options that you have when it comes to choosing a speedlight. Here’s what Scott says about his lights of choice: “My current go-to speedlight is a Canon 580EXII. I’ve got three of them and they have been… Continue reading A Photographer’s Guide to On-Camera Flash and Speedlight Features

How to Show a Photo Portfolio on Your Website

In this lesson, the eighth in a series from Chamira Young’s course The Photographer’s Portfolio, you’ll take a look at a handful of web photography portfolios learn the effective elements and strategy behind each one.  Choose a Clean Design with Simple Menu When you land on Chamira Young’s homepage, you’ll see a clean design and may recognise some of… Continue reading How to Show a Photo Portfolio on Your Website

How to Build Great Relationships With Wedding Photography Clients

A wedding is often one of the most important days in a couple’s lives, and as the wedding photographer, there’s a lot of pressure on you to capture those memories in the best way possible. Try our free course, Wedding Photography for Beginners to learn about everything you’ll need. In this lesson we’ll take a… Continue reading How to Build Great Relationships With Wedding Photography Clients

10 Instagram accounts to follow if you love nature & wildlife photography

Dan Bracaglia Nature photography has been around ever since the dawn of the photographic process. After all, the very first commercially published book of photographs, by one of the earliest inventors of the medium, William Henry Fox Talbot, was called The Pencil of Nature. And while many of the subjects of his photographs (calotypes) were… Continue reading 10 Instagram accounts to follow if you love nature & wildlife photography

A Photographer’s Guide to Brightness — How to Read Light

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson you’ll learn why brightness is the most important quality of a light source. Noticing Brightness If a light isn’t bright enough, photography isn’t possible. At least, not regular… Continue reading A Photographer’s Guide to Brightness — How to Read Light

How to Build a Wedding Photography Camera Kit

A wedding is often one of the most important days in a couple’s lives, and as the wedding photographer, there’s a lot of pressure on you to capture those memories in the best way possible. Try our course, Wedding Photography for Beginners to learn about everything you’ll need. In this lesson you’ll find out what… Continue reading How to Build a Wedding Photography Camera Kit