Vertical Shots in Wedding Photography: When Portrait Orientation Tells a Better Story
Why portrait orientation can capture the people, architecture and spontaneous energy of a wedding in one frame.
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Photographing a City Through Its Reflections
A reflected city gives you two scenes to compose at once. A shop window can hold the pavement behind you and the interior beyond the glass; …
The Photographs You Reject May Make Your Best Posters
A photograph can fail at the job you took it to do and still contain the beginning of a strong poster. The portrait is too dark, a passing …
Turn Your Photography Into Posters
Your photo archive probably contains pictures that would work beautifully as posters, even if you have never thought of them as wall art. …
Golden Hour on the Promenade: Five Walkers, One Unplanned Frieze
A telephoto street shot along a seafront promenade at golden hour. Compressed perspective, shallow depth of field. Five figures in the sharp …
Wet Paving at Night: A Handheld Street Frame of Two Runners and a Collie
Two runners, a dog on a leash, a row of bike hoops, a road full of headlights. Shot handheld from behind and slightly above, on a public …
How to Cut Clutter Out of Ultra-Wide Photos at Trade Shows and Crowded Events
An ultra-wide lens does not create clutter. It just refuses to leave any out. Point a 15mm at a busy exhibition aisle and you get the …
Him, Her: A Photograph That Works Like a Renaissance Diptych
Two figures share a photograph and refuse to share anything else. He stands on the left in a black suit, glasses, mid-sentence, addressing …
Prague Old Town Square in Flat Overcast Light: The Ultra-Wide Frame That Works
Grey sky, mid-morning, mid-October. This is the light most people complain about and then shoot in anyway, because you don’t get to …
Vertical Hero Shots: Framing Tall Landmarks in Portrait Orientation
Most hero image slots on the web are landscape. Most people looking at them are holding a phone. That gap is the whole argument for shooting …