Controlling The Lighting Of The Potrait

To ensure success in photography, amateur photographers may need to take up some lighting tutorials in addition to photography education. Photography is one of the most important aspects of photography and photographers need to learn how to control it so that they can take maximum advantage of it. There are a few ways of controlling [...]

Make Your Photos Look Better By Understanding Lighting For Photography

This topic has been talked about for numerous occasions. Photographers considered the light as a mystical ingredient meant to express myriad of feelings. All eyes moved towards reinterpreting this magnificent element which, added properly, persuaded the viewer to experiment wonderful sensations. Lighting for photography became explicitly demanded. In fact this is the main component which [...]

What the Camera Companies Don’t Want You to Hear

by NYI Student Advisor Chris Corradino Warning: the following article is likely to cause a bit of discussion, but Chris is a serious photographer and teacher, and he calls them as he sees them. In addition to the camera company’s need to sell more and more cameras, and the magazines and blogs breathless attention to [...]

The Other Kind of Investment

I have been married for longer than I have been a photographer. When I married my husband, the most important thing to me about our wedding was photography. It was a few years ago, and the archaic style of wedding photography was still transitioning into the photo journalistic, creative, thoughtful images that are more common [...]

Stocking the Pond – One Photographer’s Need for Sabbatical

“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” Eddie Cantor I just rewound my 5th roll of 3200 Ilford black and white film and set my camera down on the tiny round table outside of Chez [...]

The Role of Wedding Flowers

One of my favorite quotes is “the earth laughs in flowers,” written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Flowers are indeed a gift from nature and they have had a significant role in weddings for centuries, dating back to the ancient Greeks. Hundreds of years ago, bouquets and crowns of herbs and blooms were given to the [...]

Social Networking and Small Businesses Understanding how to use it effectively.

“New Marketing is about the relationships, not the medium.” – Ben Grossman, founder and chief strategist for BiGMarK Uttering the phrase “social media” usually makes folks in my grandparent’s generation scramble for cover, as they fear the onslaught of some crazy radical new thing that’s now “in” and which they feel they’ll never understand. For [...]

Should Videography Be Incorporated Into A Wedding Photographer’s Repertoire?

Every couple wants all aspects of their special day to be forever immortalized. For this reason, the wedding photographer is a vital member of the wedding. Often, one of the first dilemmas facing a couple is finding the right photographer for them, be it traditional, photo journalistic, artsy, etc. After deciding on the type of [...]

The Art of Wedding Photography

Wedding photography is a precise and subtle art. To recreate the atmosphere of the wedding, as well as to get plenty of beautiful portraits of the bride, bridegroom, their families and friends, you need more than good equipment and hard work. Not only must you have the sensitivity to understand the wishes of the bride [...]

Special Child Moments and A Photographer

If you have a child, there are many occasions when you might need or want a child photographer. Child photography is often very sought-after because everyone wants to capture the special moments of his or her own child. The moments of childhood are so ephemeral and fleeting that everyone wants film evidence of the beauty [...]