10 Tips For Surviving As Air Show Photographer
It's air show season again. All across North America, the Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, Snow Birds, Black Diamond Jet Team, and hundreds of other flight demonstration teams will be taking to the air to delight the crowds below. If you are like me, you love photographing...
Creating Great Family Vacation Memories
6 Tips To Making Vacation Photos Memorable And Enjoyable Summer is quickly approaching. Many of you are in the planning stages of your family vacation. If you are reading this, chances are you want to make some great photos of your travel adventures. Here are six tips...
Lowepro Stealth Reporter D400 AW Review – Four Years Later
My review of the Lowepro Stealth Reporter D400 AW has been one of the most visited pages on Digital Photography Mastery. So, nearly four years later, I thought I would revisit the Stealth Reporter. Yes, I still have this camera bag, and yes, it still looks as good as...
Why Did Your “Perfect Photo” Fail?
In a recent conversation I had on Twitter, a friend stated, "if I see a perfect shot, I can never seem to catch it the way I see it...it [the photo] doesn't speak to me." This seems to be a very common problem all photographers experience at one time or another. I'm...
The Last Camera Strap You May Ever Need
There are two things every photographer seems to search for and can never find. Call it the Photographer's Holy Grail. The perfect camera strap and the perfect camera bag. Well, I may have found the perfect camera strap. If you are like me, you have a love/hate...
5 Photo Equipment Bad Habits You Can Fix Now
Photo courtesy of Tammy Black Wolf Are you having problems making great photos? If you're not happy with your photography, maybe it's the way you think about your photo equipment that's holding you back. We all have bad habits in photography. Some more than others....
Introduction to HDR Photography: Post-Processing Workflow Overview
In the previous HDR article, I discussed how I captured my first High Dynamic Range (HDR) images while visiting Starved Rock State Park in central Illinois. If you haven't read that article yet, here's a link to it - Introduction to HDR Photography: Capturing the...
Introduction to HDR Photography: Capturing the Image
I've been takingTrey Ratcliff's Complete HDR course over the summer. The course is a series of 20 videos covering every aspect of HDR photography along with 75 images to practice with. The images supplied are the same ones that Trey uses in the training videos. For...
Book Review – Chasing the Light: Essential Tips For Taking Great Photos – by Ian Plant
I just finished reading one of Ian Plant's new eBooks titled Chasing the Light: Essential Tips For Taking Great Photos. The book is nothing less than 240 pages of spectacular. Ian has knocked the ball out of the park once again. Chasing the Light is an informational...
Digital Photography Mastery Back After Short Hiatus
I recently read a short article by photographer and entrepreneur, James Clear titled, Email is Where Keystrokes Go to Die. James, reflecting on a speech given by Scott Hanselman of Microsoft, states that we only get so many keystrokes in our lifetime,...
What Did I Learn During the Month of Video Production?
My month of video training just flew by. Video production is one of those subjects that I could easily spend the rest of the year exploring and writing about. But, the goal was to sample and learn the basics of video, which I believe I accomplished. Granted I have a...
Introduction to Sound Capture and Recording for Video Production
Similar to video lighting, you don't have to make a huge investment in sound equipment to start out in video production. There are free and low-cost options available to use until you are sure you want to pursue video more actively. You will quickly discover, however,...