If you live in an area that has two or four seasons, then you know what it’s like to feel the doldrums of between-season photography. Right now in many parts of the world, trees are bare, the color gone, and it’s too soon for the punch of snowscapes to compensate. If you’re outdoors, everything through [...]

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If writers have writer’s block, artists can have artist’s block and photographers can have photographer’s block. The bigger question is how do we overcome these frustrating blocks? Worst case scenario, they can make us feel like we’ve lost our edge. Like we’ll never find anything interesting to photograph again. There’s no magic purple, green or [...]

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You don’t have to be a fan of Office Space to hate printers. They’ve been my worst enemy for years. Printers always seem to be the most error prone device you can connect to your computer. If it’s not a PC LOAD LETTER error, it’s something else. And what’s worse is trying to print a [...]

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If you’ve been around since the beginning of digital photography, you no doubt understand how much progress we’ve made. Today’s models make the first digital cameras look incredibly weak, and the reason is resolution. For a lot less than you would have paid back then, you can get a digital camera with ten times the [...]

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Ready to take your photography beyond your computer? A photography exhibition is a great place to start. Most photographers are more than a little scared of doing a photography exhibition, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You don’t need to be a serious artsy type to show your work and get people interested [...]

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Whenever sharing is involved, there is a always a chance that someone will break the ties that bind and violate your trust. If you’re worried about your photos getting stolen from your Facebook or Twitter accounts, worry no more. Here is one sure-fire technique that will stop any and all digital photography theft.

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This question comes from reader Sherry Quiban. She wants to start doing photography exhibitions, and she’d like to know what size images she should print for the occasion. While it’s certainly a question with a lot of different answers, there are a few accepted guidelines for exhibition prints. Here’s what I tend to do.

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The process of printing photos can be complex, which is often why most people don’t even bother to do it themselves. Why purchase an expensive printer, ink cartridges, and paper when your local supermarket can do the same thing for much less? Some of these places advertise amazingly low photo printing prices. Is it possible [...]

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There are more ways to share information today than there has been in the history of mankind. As a photographer, your options are practically limitless. You can hop on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Myspace, Photobucket, and plenty of others. They all allow you to upload your favorite photos and share them with your friends. So much [...]

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They’re getting better every year. Camera makers and your local Best Buy salesman are always talking about the next model with more megapixels than the one that came before it. The new numbers make your current model seem obsolete. If you bought a camera with six megapixels a few years ago, you wish you could [...]

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If this isn’t a huge disappointment, please tell me what isn’t. You get a bunch of your point and shoot pictures printed, only to find out that the top and bottom of every photo has been completely cut off. As you stare at the faces and scenes chopped in half, you’re wondering what could have [...]

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Don’t take a chance with your precious images. Digital storage of data can and does fail so it is vitally important to backup your photos to ensure they will be around for years and years to come. We should do backup regularly because our computers and hard drives are NOT a safe place to store [...]

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