Learn more from Victor Ha at this year’s Photo Video West taking place April 27-28 in Del Mar, CA. Victor leads a seminar on how to transition from photography into HDSLR Video during the two-day photography educational event and expo.  For more details, visit www.photovideowest.com. It’s 2013 and the landscape of the photography industry has completely changed. We now live in an era…

Discover insider tips on everything there is to know about concert and event photography with Alan Hess at this year’s Photo Video West, where Alan will lead a seminar on Concert Photography.  Join Alan and other photography pros in Del Mar, CA for Photo Video West, April 27-28.  More details at www.photovideowest.com.   Concert photography is not the easiest thing to do. You…

Compositional rules might make a photo more appealing, and it’s important to know the rules. But, are there times when it’s perfectly acceptable to break the rules? Photography is an art form. You need to be able to find the beauty in the scene before you and present it in your own way. The Rule: Reflected light should never be…

We are currently living what will probably be known in the history books as the photography era. With the massive growth of consumer adoption of digital cameras and cell phones as part of their daily lives, we are taking and sharing photos at a rate the world has never experienced before. Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Google+, and other photo-centric social networks…

Landscape photographers love to shoot pristine scenes that seem to be untouched by human hands. I believe that humans are part of nature, and sometimes a human element can add an interesting or emotional point of interest. Here are some examples that show how I have incorporated human elements into my photographs… In this shot from Olympic National Park, I used leading lines…

Are you willing to go out and shoot in wet conditions? We often shoot in the rain – and we’ve been out there in some pretty nasty weather… thunderstorms, hail, sand-storms, windstorms, snowstorms… nasty weather can make shooting difficult. But unless the weather is dangerous, we don’t mind shooting in it. It’s about being prepared… But when safety is not…

“For you,” she said, looking me straight in the eye. Astounded, I held out my hand to accept this gift, given to me by this little girl, this child whose language I barely speak, who has so little and yet desires to give me something to remember her, and her country, by. As a frequent traveler, I’ve learned to keep…

We believe we have to do something, but sometimes the best thing to do…is nothing. After my day long shoot at the Salton Sea, that night I started working on some of my images from the day.  One was shot as a 3 exposure +-2EV HDR. I processed it quickly that night following my long day and 4 hours of…

By Tim Barribeau The accepted story on the Internet is that Google+ is a ghost town, that Google squandered initial interest in the service by not letting people in quickly enough, and that it’s dead in the water. Yet, standing in proud defiance of that narrative is a plethora of photographers, who’ve flocked to Google+ and somehow transformed it into one…

By Rob Cooper These remarkable 19th century sepia-tinted pictures show the American West as you have never seen it before – as it was charted for the first time. The photos, by Timothy O’Sullivan, are the first ever taken of the rocky and barren landscape. At the time federal government officials were travelling across Arizona, Nevada, Utah and the rest…