In simple list form! I hope you enjoy these articles about a variety of topics.
📸 5 Reasons to Learn Photography Photography can change your life! Find out how here.
🎁 Gift Ideas for Photographers Things I own and love and things on my wish-list.
💪🏼 30 Day Photography Challenge A 30 Day Challenge with prompts, a downloadable cheat-sheet, and articles to give you ideas. Have fun while nurturing your powers of observation and honing your photography skills!
MINDFUL PHOTOGRAPHY
🌱 Mindful Photography Workshop A free workshop and downloadable workbook to discover the power of mindful photography.
👀 The Art of Seeing How to still the mind so your senses can be fully present to the world around you. You can’t photograph what you can’t see!
🚶🏻♀️ Take a Mindful Photowalk A photowalk can reduce stress, increase your sense of gratitude and joy, and is fun! What’s not to Leo?
GENERAL TIPS FOR NEW PHOTOGRAPHERS
📱 6 Tips for Awesome Phone Photos Some of these will probably be new to you.
🌸 6 Tips for Better Photos of Flowers Love flowers? Some great ideas for taking better photographs of them.
🗃 How to Organize Your Digital Photos It’s never too late to start! Each year that you delay means another year of chaos for future you/your descendants. Free downloadable workbook.
📸 Why You Need to Print Your Photos You really do need to print some of them and here’s why.
🧒🏻 4 Mistakes to Avoid When Photographing Your Kids Hard learned lessons from photographing my own kids in the years before I became a professional photographer.
ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION
⅓ Rule of Thirds The first photography rule I ever learned! So simple and quite powerful.
🐛 Worm’s Eye View Change your point of view and improve your photography.
🦅 Bird’s Eye View Same as above – change your point of view and improve your photography.
⭕️ Understanding Symmetry What it is, why it is psychologically pleasing, and how to use it in our images.
📈 Working With Lines My favorite element of composition! Learn all about them here.
🔲 Framing Your Subject I love doing this with my clients — it’s a great way to draw attention to your subject.
🧱Working With Texture Textures are fascinating to photograph and reveal so much about the subject! Learn how to accentuate them in your images.
⠶ Working with Patterns Patterns are everywhere! They can be photographed as interesting abstract subjects or used as elements in a photograph.
🌈 Understanding Color Colors are so beautiful and can be used to enhance emotion and mood in a photograph.
♦️Working With Shape Recognizing and highlighting shapes in your images can give them more impact.
⬜️ Using Negative Space Negative space can be a beautiful way to emphasize your subjects.
🏞Understanding Depth Depth adds a lot of interest to your images, especially landscapes and story-telling photographs.l
INTERMEDIATE PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGES
DIY Trash Bag Dress Fashion Photoshoot
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