I wanted put together a post that highlighted what I believe to be five key actions to taking better photographs. I asked myself, “What were my big a-ha moments while learning how to shoot photography?”. So here they are!
1. Learn to shoot in manual mode.
I recently came across a study conducted [...]
I remember when I first started getting into photography, all I wanted to do was shoot macro because it just looked so cool! But macro lenses can be really expensive, and since most of my shoots are weddings and portraits, I just couldn’t justify buying a $1000 macro lens that I might only use for [...]
I wanted to share a cool photography related product with you today. Artifact Uprising is a really awesome photo book company. With the use of 100% recycled paper, they offer hardcover, softcover and Instagram friendly books.
They come in so many rad colors and they have a lot of different book covers to choose [...]
Hello!
We launched two more classes this past month, so we wanted to publish a post about each of them here today.
The first new class is called Photoshop Touch Up, and it’s all about re-touching photos of people in Photoshop. We worked as re-touchers for several years before we started our own [...]
We love sharing links to cool camera-related stuff, so I thought I’d blog about a gift I gave my wife for Christmas last week.
She had been wanting a new camera bag, so I Googled ”cool camera bags for women“. Unfortunately, nothing that cool really came up, and I was sort of surprised at how [...]
Choosing the right lens is an important part of getting the results you want. The two most important things to consider are ‘Focal Length’, and ‘Depth of Field’.
Let’s start with focal length. Focal length refers to how much you can see through the lens. It’s important to note that the two most common lenses [...]
I thought I’d put up a fun video our friend Joshua Pittman shot of us at Haven this past June. I can’t tell you how much fun we had meeting new friends and talking photography.
Josh followed us around and shot random footage so we would always have a memory of our trip to [...]
Hey there! We’re super excited to announce our Shoot Fly Shoot Affiliate Program! It’s open to anyone who would like to partner up with us and it’s free of charge. The only requirement is that you must have an active Paypal account. (That’s where we’ll send your payments each month.) To get started, simply add [...]
A couple of weeks ago Layla and I stopped by a house in Montgomery to shoot some quick pics and chat with the owner about his wonderful home. We only had about one hour to tour his house, so I had to shoot as quickly as possible.
In a perfect world, I would [...]
When I was first learning how to shoot photography I was always drawn to the beautiful images with blurry backgrounds. The point of interest would literally pop off the page when the background was slightly out of focus. This blur is referred to as Bokeh (pronounced bo-ka), and it quickly became my mission to learn [...]
