Wannabe photographer?
Already a professional photographer but need to improve your skills in certain areas of photography or learn how to promote your photography services to get more bookings?
Check out the resources below that we have compiled. There is something for everyone here regardless of the level of photography you are in.
Beginner Photography
Want to be a photographer? How to be a photographer? Photography is your passion and want to learn more about photography? Then this section is for you. Some great resources on beginner photography you might wanna dive in to.
20 Essential Photography Tips for Beginners
Photography for Beginners (The Ultimate Guide)
Photography Basics: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
The Ultimate Guide to Learning Photography
Camera Basics
Aah! Here comes the fun part. Which camera is suitable for me? It depends on your objective. What you will do with your camera will define what you need. Are you looking for the best camera for beginners? Best travel camera for your travel photography that not only will take the pictures you want but also easy to carry around? Best DSLR camera for beginners? Or you are a professional and looking for the best camera for professional photography? This Camera Basics for Beginners & Professionals section has a little for every soul.
The Ultimate Guide to Learning how to use Your first DSLR
Digital Photography
I remember the first camera I used some 35 years or so ago. It was a Yashica SLR camera where I would flip the back open, put the negative on one side, carefully line it in the middle section and attach one end of the negative to the other end of the camera. If that makes any sense to youngsters these days. Every time I took a shot, the counter would show me how many shots I took in total so I know how many I have left. Once the entire roll of negative was used, I think it was 35 shots I took take with one roll (please let me know if my memory doesn’t serve me right), I then had to take the negative to the studio to get it developed/exposed. I then looked at the exposures to see which ones needed to be printed. Now it’s the age of digital photography and with so many cameras to choose from and so many features to play around with, little bit of education in this area of digital photography can be useful for lot of us.
Digital Photography Tips – National Geographic
Got a Digital Camera for Christmas? Learn How to Use it Here
Understanding Digital Camera Modes
Mobile Photography
No photography resource can ever be completed these days without the mention of mobile photography. It’s hard to find a mobile phone these days that doesn’t come with a camera. Only 10 years ago, people would go to the store and look for camera phones. Now a days, it’s the era of smartphones and some even come with camera and lenses that outrank some entry level or even midrange cameras. Mastering phone photography is therefore an art to pursue. Also, if you can master the best phone photography skills, you don’t even need an actual camera in most cases for amateur use.
12 Mobile Photography Tips Every Photographer Should Know
The Ultimate Guide to Smartphone Photography (96 Best Tips)
35+ Mobile Photography Tips for Taking Incredible Smartphone Photos
Camera Maintenance
Everything has a life and the life can be extended with some routine maintenance. Also, with some basic routine maintenance, your camera can produce the best shots. For example, a simple camera lens cleaning can make a light to day difference in your photography. As obvious as it seems, you will be surprised how many people don’t clean their lenses before taking a shot. It’s also important to protect your lens so that it doesn’t get scratched or accidentally doesn’t get cracked. Protecting the lens with a lens cover and keeping the camera in the case while not using are some basic fundamentals of camera maintenance and safeguards all should practice.
10 Top Maintenance and Emergency Care Tips for Your dSLR
Newborn Photography & Baby Photoshoot Ideas at Home
So far we talked about the equipment, now we are diving into the actual photography. Let’s start with newborn photography. We all take pictures of our newborns and friends or family members who come to visit our little ones also take a lot of pictures. Happy Moments! And who can deny the need of professional newborn photoshoot or baby photoshoot (aka lifestyle newborn photography) to preserve the memory? There are professional photographers who make it a career being specialized in newborn photoshoot or baby photoshoot so it’s an entire industry on its own.
17 must-try newborn photo ideas, plus tips for getting the best shots
9 Newborn photography tips: How to take photos of a baby
Newborn Photo Shoots: Safety Do’s & Don’ts Every Parent Should Know
Landscape Photography | Nature Photography
Landscape photography is a mastery of shooting a picture of the nature in a way that takes the viewer right into the scene itself. While everything is in color these days, there is a big artistic market for black and white landscape photography. In fact, you will make it as a famous landscape photographer if you can take a black and white shot of the landscape that will connect you as well as the viewer to the nature. To master the art of landscape photography just doesn’t come to anyone by nature, it is a long-practiced skill. Below are some landscape photography tips and tricks that will help anyone from beginner to advanced level landscape photographer.
Landscape Photography (from beginner to advanced, processing to post processing)
Landscape Photography – 25 Tips to Get Better Results
Landscape Photography Tips from National Geographic
Landscape Photography Tips – Exposure Guide
Travel Photography
We all like to travel more or less and some spend years in a travel mission travelling around the world. Some travel with a major objective of taking travel photography. Whatever your travel plan is or goal is for travelling, we all have one thing in common when it comes to travelling – taking lots of photos. Some of serious travel photographers even like to take time travel photos. With the ease of using digital cameras and cellphones with high-capacity memory cards, we can practically take thousands of images without running out of memory. Let’s take a look at few travel photography resources that will make us better travel photographers.
20 Useful Travel Photography Tips for Improving Your Photos
The Complete Guide to Travel Photography: 113 Tips
Travel Photography – How to Blend Your Passion with Profession
Portrait and Lifestyle Photography
Portrait photography or lifestyle photography are photography that involves people. It can capture real life events which is also known as event photography. Some popular event photography are wedding photography, birthday photography, corporate party or function photography etc. Basically, portrait photography or lifestyle photography shoots people in real life scenario or in certain staged situation. It can be used for storytelling where stories of people are shared through photographs.
30 Beautiful Examples of Lifestyle Photography
The Big Lie About Lifestyle Photography
8 Great Tips to Improve Your Lifestyle Photography
Tips for capturing great lifestyle photography
Light, No Light or Sunlight?
Photography without light? Might just as well take a hike! Not only you will need proper lighting in the studio for taking photos, sunlight, sunrise, sunset or even no sun or cloudy days make significant contribution to your outdoor photoshoot. A good photographer will plan ahead for outdoor photography and use all external elements to his/her advantage.
How to Get the Perfect Lighting for Video
Understanding Photography Lighting – The Essential Beginners Guide
8 Options to Consider When Building a Studio Lighting Kit
Photo Editing & Retouching (post-production)
By now you are a master photographer and taking those mind blowing shots, time to move to photo editing and retouching. In other words, post-product photo editing. No matter how good of a photographer you are, there will be time when you will need to edit your photos to make it suitable for print or web publishing. Whether it is to eliminate model imperfection, remove camera dust, remove background, adjust color / white balance, etc., photo editing knowledge is a must for all photographers. And if you are a commercial product photographer, then photo editing is something you simply cannot do without. Below are some photoshop tutorials that will make you a better photoshop editor.
Photo Editing 101: Mastering The 5 Essential Tools
The Kickstarting Guide to Mastering Photo Editing for Beginners
Marketing + Advertising = More Booking
If you are good photographer and in the business for last 20 or so years, you already have enough connections and reputation to get constant bookings. You already have social media presence, enough connections, portfolio site ranks high on Google across various search terms where traffic coming from left, right, center. But if you are new in the business or need more business than you are getting, then Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), increasing social media presence (Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, etc), and in some cases Pay per Click (PPC) advertising are must.
PPC advertising cost money, a LOT of money. And you need to budge a certain amount of money to spend on a monthly basis to get certain number of leads. The cost depends on your niche and how much your competitors are paying for the same keyword you are targeting. For example, if a competitor is paying $3 per click for running a Google Ad campaign for the targeted keyword “Vancouver Wedding Photography”, then you will need to pay higher to have your ad shown above your competitor ad. If you pay lower, then your ad will be shown lower to your competitor ad. There are lot of PPC or Google Ad tutorials on how to setup a Good Ad Campaign step by step on YouTube so just search for it if you are interested.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on the other hand is optimizing your portfolio site using photographer SEO in a way to increase your natural or organic Google ranking for certain keywords. For example, optimizing your portfolio site for the term “Vancouver Wedding Photography” properly and effectively will show your portfolio site on the top of Google searches for that term. It is a cost-effective method of gaining nature organic traffic and increase your business. There are lot of tutorials on how to SEO your site so you might wanna look into it. You can also hire freelancers from online job boards to outsource the job for a low monthly cost as offshore SEO professional freelancers work for as low as few dollars an hour. If you want to outsource your SEO campaign, check the freelancer ratings and client comment on previous jobs.
How to hire a freelancer from upwork.com for example:
Filter out the search results to show freelancers that have earned at least 10K, 90%+ job success rate, and 0 – $10 an hour will show you freelancers that meet the set criteria. You can search for SEO Expert or Google Ranking etc to find freelancers in this area. Just read the job history of the freelancers and hire one that you feel has the right type of skills. A professional freelancer will send you weekly report of that week’s activity and monthly report of ranking improvement. He or she will also do competitor analysis to analyze your competition and perform proper keyword research to target the keywords you need to get business in your local area in the area of your expertise.
Good luck with your photography venture, whether it is a hobby or profession.