Fuel Your Photography
Here is an archive of the articles I penned when I was a writer and then Editor-in-Chief at FYP
The Top 5 Free and Paid Photography Sharing Sites
Top 5 Free Sites We all love to take photographs but along with our consummate love we take them not just for our own pastime and pleasure but also to share and receive accolades of others and sometimes as a means of income. In order to do this we have to make our...
Weekend Photo Focus: Ugly
This weekend, we’re focusing on ugly and the beauty of ugly. Below are a selection of images that range from the everyday to the unusual and rare. Share your ugly! Enjoy! Colormess by Miss Deathwish Ugly by thedarkinfinity War by nickflicks No War by...
Weekend Photo Find: Up, Up and Away
WEEKEND PHOTO FOCUS SUBMISSIONS: Other Links: Cross Wires on Fire by @PlusPeace Painting the Sky/Pintando el Cielo by @skyfenix Sky by Klakier666 Fire in the Sky by Victorstd8 Atomic Sky by Foureyes Sunset by Sergey1984 Sunset by Yakushkin Lightning by Stock-by-Kai...
The Need for Speed: Motorsports Photography
Motorsports photography, like other sports photography, is all about being ready to capture that moment when it happens. To successfully engage in motorsports photography you must have excellent command of your camera and its features especially high speed and...
Choosing the Right Lens
Lens choices are often very perplexing but they are critical to the final photograph. Or to put it in simple terms, if you have a top of the line body and a mediocre lens you’ll get a mediocre photograph, if you have a mediocre camera body and a great lens, all...
The Principles of Good Photography, Part 2
In the previous installment, we addressed shooting RAW vs. JPG, shutter speed, Aperture, ISO, Exposure and Composition. This month, we talk more about the principles of good photography; these are elements which contribute to your achieving excellence in your...
The Principles of Good Photography
Photography is all about the desire to create art and capture beauty but there is a degree of technical know how required to capture good images. I will go through the top techniques that you must master to create good images in the following tenets. RAW vs. JPG As...
Can Podcasts and Twitter Improve Your Photography?
As photographers there is a constant need to improve our skill, not just the desire that we want to take better photographs but also in the respect that we seek inspiration and the inspiration will come in the forms of wanting to try a new technique. This means that...
The Photography Business Plan
A business plan is the most important part of any photography (or other business) aside from drive and desire of the owner(s). A properly executed business plan with due diligence exercised beforehand will avoid your entering an enterprise that is doomed to failure....
Histograms – The Key to Better Exposure.
Modern cameras make much use of technology, for exposure measurement they use the 18% grey scale method. This method assumes that regardless of what you are metering in your viewfinder that it must equivocate to 18% grey scale; this is the technological equivalent...