Improve Photography

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In Episode 21 of the Improve Photography Podcast, Jim Harmer, Dustin Olsen, Juan Pons (from http://dpexperience.com/), and Derrick Story (from http://www.thedigitalstory.com/) talk about mistakes to avoid and answer listener questions about lenses and time-lapse photography. If you are reading this post via email or RSS, be sure to click the blue title of this post so that [...]

For the weekly duel this week, Dustin and Jim each had only 30 minutes to photograph the same model, who they had never before shot with or seen. New to the weekly Improve Photography Duel?  Check out this page, where we explain how it works. Settling the Score The overall score from past weeks of [...]

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How you can get more creative in your photography even when you feel like you’re in a rut is one thing we discuss this week.  Also, Jim discusses his photography trip down to southern Utah where he learned a lot of new photography tips. If you are reading this post via email or RSS, be [...]

This week’s theme is Panorama. Panorama photography is a great technique for making the viewer of the photo feel enveloped in the landscape.  Since panoramas capture a wider area, it more closely matches a person’s field of vision.  The trick with panoramas, however, is composition.  It can be difficult to place objects in the frame [...]

Many times, I go out on a shoot and feel like I captured the scene how I wanted it to look but then I get home and look at the photos large on the computer only to realize that the photos didn’t turn out.  I think one of the biggest reason for this problem is [...]

We’ve teamed up with SLR Lounge and Calumet Hollywood to give you all a chance to win a Calumet Genesis 200 Lighting Kit!  The good news is that it’s really easy to enter.  All you have to do is like all three of our Facebook pages (terms and conditions apply). You can enter the contest [...]

Today is the very first camera duel, a weekly feature we’re adding to ImprovePhotography.com.  This week’s theme is close-up photography. We chose close-up photography for the first Improve Photography Duel because it’s something I’ve always struggled with.  I’m generally not a big fan of close-up or macro photography because they all look the same to [...]

Tomorrow, Improve Photography is going to take delivery of a DJI Phantom.  It’s a $700 remote controlled helicopter that is capable of lifting a small camera in the air to take aerial photos and video.  Needless to say, I’m not going to be sleeping much tonight, knowing that a new gadget is in a box [...]

When photographers are interested in buying a full frame camera for the first time as an upgrade from their crop frame DSLR, they often have a nagging question.  Most photographers have heard there is a difference in the field of view (how much of the scene you can see) when using the same focal length [...]

Last week, I announced an “Edit My Raw File” Contest.  The idea is that I uploaded a photo that I took, and then put the file up for download so that all of us could take a crack at editing the exact same photo. This was, easily, the most FUN contest we’ve done, because it [...]