Stock Photography Articles and Tips

Whether you have been creating photographs for years or only for few weeks, finding inspiration is not always easy. We all experience periods of creative blocks when we get stuck and all our good ideas come to a halt. Inspiration seems to elude us. Read more»

There was a vogue a few years ago, which seemed to coincide with a general surge in the popularity of a certain maker of square filters, for using ever more outlandish combinations of filter effects. Read more»

Photographing the desert southwest can be tricky. If you follow the basic rules, however, the difference in creating a simple, but elegant photo can be astounding. Read more»

One thing I get asked a lot is "How come your pictures pop and mine don't?" The answer is quite simple, but like any hobby, it just takes practice. It's not about the camera or the equipment, it's all in how you take the picture. You'll only need the newest and greatest digital camera if you've managed to master everything below it while also looking for the challenge of learning how to bring even more control into your photos. Read more»

When you're driving through the mountains somewhere, and you notice a car parked half off the road and some guy leaning to the left to avoid a branch with his SLR camera with a long lens, in the act of focusing, you've met me. I do this because, to me, a trip isn't fulfilling unless I've preserved that beauty for posterity. I'd like to share some of the techniques that make scenic photography such a wonderful artform - simple, yet elegant. Read more»

As a rookie nature photographer who ends up throwing away at least 99% of the images I shoot, there are a lot of things I wish for. For example, considering all the great automated features of SLR camera's, I wish someone would invent an SLR that would beep or buzz or even chime when I achieved the very best composition in the frame. Maybe there could even be a recorded vocal alert that would say: "Warning! Composing the frame requires more thought than just choosing a subject!" Read more»

One of the wonderful things about digital images is the ability to crop and manipulate them in a variety of sizes and orientations with such relative ease. However, sometimes you need to be able to determine with some accuracy the size that a digital image will occupy when presented. Read more»