Close-up portraits include only head and shoulders of the model or less, only eyes for example. I’ll write a couple of tips for close-up portraits in this post.

Light
Light is important in close-up portraits. Soft and balanced lights are preferred in order to avoid any sharp shadows in the models face. But also you can accent [...]

Most of you already know what is exposure. But some of my visitors are just beginners and they are not familiar with photography terms. So i decided to write about basic photography once in a while. Today’s topic is exposure as you can see above.

Exposure is amount of incoming light to the camera during a [...]

Part 2 - Panoramic Photography - Tips and Tricks
Panoramic Photography - Part 3
How to Create Panoramas Using Photoshop
In this last part of panoramic photography i will show you how to create panoramas using Photoshop CS 3, It is easy. I decided to make a video to show you how it is done in real time. [...]

Part 1 - Panoramic Photography - Mistakes
Part 3 - How to Stitch Pictures with Photoshop
Panoramic Photography - Part 2
Tips and Tricks
In panoramic photography part 1, i wrote about my mistakes in my first panorama photography attempt. Now we will see how to make to it right, how to take pictures to create panoramas. [...]

Part 2 - Panoramic Photography - Tips and Tricks
Panoramic Photography - Part 1
Mistakes
I’ll write about how to create panoramas and some tips and tricks to take better panorama pictures. I’ll write about my first attempt to take panorama pictures and create a panorama. I believe writing my mistakes will help you to fix yours. I [...]

Environmental portraits, are the pictures that show us the life of model, his/her hobbies, daily life, job etc. Environmental portraits usually includes whole body of the model rather than only focusing to the face. This kind of photography is the best way to telling a story about the subject to the viewers, this is [...]

I wrote a lot about shaking the camera and ways to prevent it in my previous post such as Night Photography, Being Caught Unprepared and Capture the Lightning . I found a video that might be helpful to prevent shaking the camera and for less than one dollar…

It sounds ridiculous, but i watched the video [...]

Sometimes we are being caught unprepared for the conditions, when we are taking pictures. There are a lot of conditions that can surprise us, like a bad weather etc. But i’ll focus on seeing a nice scene in a low light environment when you don’t have your tripod with you.

Imagine you forgot to take your [...]

Nobody loves washed out, totally white skies in photography. Instead we prefer skies with dramatic colors. There are several ways to prevent washed out skies;

First and the best; a classic; do not shoot towards the sun or sunlight. Directing your camera towards sun, makes the light measurement harder for your camera. Because in this condition [...]

I’m pretty busy for a long time and i cannot find time to take pictures. It’s so sad , for me. Also because of this reason i cannot upload my new works. So yesterday i retouched an old work of mine and decided to upload it.

This picture is also available in my Photography gallery, in [...]