Tag: photo blog

  • Flickr joins SmugMug to create the world’s best home for photography

    Flickr joins SmugMug to create the world’s best home for photography

    Flickr joins SmugMug Flickr has agreed to be acquired by SmugMug, the photography platform dedicated to visual storytellers. SmugMug has a long history of empowering people who love photography and who want to improve their craft, making them a perfect fit for Flickr and our creative community. Flickr has always been defined by the strength […]

  • Abandoned places photography

    Abandoned places photography

    Browsing through abandoned properties and places can be a surprisingly captivating experience. From standalone structures to entire abandoned buildings, there’s a mystical quality to derelict scenes that instantly sparks our curiosity and imagination. As we explore these spaces, we begin to imagine who the previous inhabitants were and wonder about the series of events that […]

  • Black background without flash

    Black background without flash

    Black background with a single source of light without flash. Many beginning photographers are asked: how to photograph an object on a black background without a black background and a single light source? And what to do if there is no external flash? In this post I’ll share the secret of how to make a […]

  • How to increase the natural light

    How to increase the natural light

    4 Tips to Leverage Natural Light Using Just your Camera and One Lens. In photography light is everything. Without light, whether that be artificial or natural, there is no photography. The problem is that sometimes there is just too much or too little, and in both cases, artificial light may need to be added. But […]

  • Should you be shooting RAW?

    Should you be shooting RAW?

    “Now I look through your old photos for suitability to photo stocks and find great pictures, shot on Canon 5D Mark II and a professional lens, but they are not suitable for the technical quality to be sold in photo stocks, and all because that shot in JPEG! Strong noise, artifacts, and most importantly a […]