Landscape Photography, No Camping Needed

Landscape Photography, No Camping Needed

One of the great things about photography is how flexible it is. As a hobby, as a professional skill, as an artistic expression, photography is all things to all people and can be used in whatever way your own muse moves you. When people first dip their toes in photography…
Product Photography in Your Pocket

Product Photography in Your Pocket

Anyone who runs an online store of any kind knows that fantastic product photography is one of the great secrets to increasing sales. It’s been proven over and over again that great product photography entices consumers to spend more time on your site and often is the difference between someone…
Interior Design Tips for a No-Demo Reno

Interior Design Tips for a No-Demo Reno

It’s a fact of life: No matter how much we love our last design, or the design we found in a house when we bought it, we eventually grow tired of it. Sometimes it’s the big idea that we thought was bold and adventurous but turns out to just be…
Your Home as Your Wall Art Canvas

Your Home as Your Wall Art Canvas

The phrase ‘interior design’ brings up a sense of complexity and professionalism that makes many home owners or apartment renters feel like they can’t even rearrange the furniture in their homes without consulting an expensive professional to tell them the ‘right way’ to do things. Even something as simple as…
Pet Photography: Go with a New Angle

Pet Photography: Go with a New Angle

Sometimes pet photography is an afterthought, a sudden inspiration when the family dog or kitten does something crazy. Sometimes it’s part of our formal portrait strategy, capturing our crazy family, which definitely includes our pets. Sometimes we have dreams of creating the next Grumpy Cat or Internet Meme celebrity. Whatever…
Portrait Photography Tips: The Art of the Headshot

Portrait Photography Tips: The Art of the Headshot

The Law of Unintended Consequences is a funny thing: You try to predict how something will affect future events, and you’re almost always wrong. And when you’re right, you probably can’t explain why. This happens in big ways and little ways all the time. Take the Internet: It’s changed the…
Three Powerful Ways to Use Collage

Three Powerful Ways to Use Collage

There’s nothing new about collage – it’s an artistic technique that’s been around for centuries and became very popular and common in the 20th century. To the untrained eye, collage seems very easy: Take some photos, throw them in the air, and wherever they land glue them down and ta-da!…
Creative Ideas to Celebrate the Baby Bump

Creative Ideas to Celebrate the Baby Bump

Pregnancy is simultaneously the most special and unique moment in most people’s lives, and something that literally happens every day. This creates a tension between reality and expectation that can put a lot of stress on parents to find special, unique ways to document and celebrate the moment. Coming up…
Making a Closet Office Work Using Canvas Printing

Making a Closet Office Work Using Canvas Printing

The world economy is going through some seismic changes. Undoubtedly, people will look back at the early part of the 21st century and remark on how the so-called sharing economy and the freelancer revolution changed how people work forever, throwing in the increasing prevalence of telecommuting jobs for good measure.…