April 2011

Featured Photographer — An Interview With Scott MacQuarrie

Scott MacQuarrie is an award-wining photojournalist and shoots events, editorial stuff, stock photos and commercial work for clients worldwide. He has been awarded CPP (Certified Professional Photographer) from the PPA. We got a chance to interview Scott over the weekend. In this interview, Scott speaks about his career as a photographer and shares his thoughts [...]

30 Exquisite Waterfall Pictures

Nature photography is a medium for photographers to unveil the scenic beauty of nature in its diverse forms. Wildlife shots, awesome landscape photographs, beautiful flower photography or detailed macro shots, all exhibit fantastic colors, attractive aspects of scene (and subject) and uniqueness of existence of life. Adding to the list, waterfall photography offers an opportunity [...]

How To Creatively Use Negative Space In Photography

One of the photography composition techniques for drawing the viewer’s attention is perhaps simplicity. Instead of including the entire scene with conflicting subjects, try minimalism, the art of framing the subject that stands out distinct in its own space. This is where negative space comes into the picture. Negative space is the free / empty [...]

Camera Mechanics — How Does The Camera Work?

Look through the camera lens, fine tune the camera settings and click the shutter-release to imprint the reality on the photographic frame. But what happens behind the scene. How does the camera actually record the data in the form of images? The camera is a compact piece of technology made up of various components — [...]

Portrait Lighting Techniques — The Fundamentals Of Studio Portraiture

One of the key skills of a professional portrait photographer is the perception of light and its nature in diverse forms. Be it the natural light or the studio set-up, the portrait photographer can aesthetically portray expressions, mood, emotions and intense depth onto the photographic frame. When we talk of portrait photography, one element that [...]