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Get More Referrals from Wedding Venues
Promoting yourself as a wedding shooter may be an area that is not intuitive for you; you’re a photographer, not a marketing expert. Well, what if a solid percentage of your business could be generated...
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President Obama Crashes Wedding Shot By The Youngrens
Of all the people you expect to crash your wedding–not that this is necessarily going to be a long list, but we’re just thinking out loud–certainly one of the last people you would be prepared to see...
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12 Pro Photographers Were Asked To Shoot for Free…by a Friend!
What do you say when you’re asked to shoot for free? What if the one asking is a good friend, and old friend, a friend who really ought to know better? What if they promise great “exposure”?!? The...
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Wedding Photography Branding
Kristen Booth’s gonna put it to you straight, so brace yourself: the wedding photography (and portrait photography, for that matter) industry is stuffed to capacity. Economics 101: there’s a glut of...
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Photographic Smile Enhancement
Here’s a quick and pointed–yea, opinionated–read. In the midst of all the megapixel wars and absurd forward lurches that photographic technology has been taking, various kinds of critiques have been...
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The Importance of Context in Portrait Photography
Portrait photography is about more than just the portrait-ee. Whether you’re shooting weddings, formal portraits, or candid character shots, the context in which your subject is embedded really shapes...
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Photo Gallery: Queen Elizabeth II’s Record-Breaking Reign
Queen Elizabeth II recently passed the record set by her ancestress, Queen Victoria, with the longest reign of any British monarch. Simon Worrall writes the story for National Geographic, accompanied...
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Some Of The Best Destination Wedding Photos of 2015
If shooting weddings is your thing, it may be that you’ve had the opportunity to work in some interesting settings: perhaps a 300-year-old church, or a college chapel, or a botanical garden setting....
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Mary Ellen Mark – It’s Not About The Gear
Mary Ellen Mark, who died in May of this year at the age of 75, was one of the defining figures in late-20th century photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. “It’s not what you shoot...
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Excerpts from Uncle Bob’s Blog!
We all know Uncle Bob: the man, the myth, the photobombing, shot-blocking, wedding-wrecking legend! Turns out, when he purchased his first digital camera back in 2001, he also launched a blog! For your...
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Emotional Video of Engaged Couple Aging Into Their 90s
My wife was sitting in an antique chair from her old apartment, watching a video on her phone, face turned toward the window, tears streaming down her face as she laughed and cried and sobbed. “What...
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Iceland’s Mesmerizing Midnight Sun in 4K
The ephemeral sunset that you enjoy gazing into, for the scant fifteen minutes or so that it’s fully cranked up, offers the barest whiff of kaleidoscopic splendor before it’s vanquished by night....
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Composition Inspiration: Auto Mechanics Recreate Classic Paintings
A couple of months ago, we spent some time with these guys, garden-variety office types who had the bright idea to recreate classic paintings right there in the workplace, using themselves, and...
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Double-Exposure Portraits, Digital Style
Double-exposure photography used to be easier. When we were all shooting film, all you had to do was snap a photograph, then take a second without having advanced the film. Oooh! Ghostly. Those days...
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“Anything Can Be” Project Brings Hope to Young Cancer Patients
From time to time, we at KISS-U like to post inspiring stories of professional photographers who have in some unique way contributed to the good of mankind. Well, it doesn’t get much more man-kinder...
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Historical Photos Seen in Living Color
These historical photos are astonishing. May we say that again? Astonishing. Anne Frank, 1942 It’s not so much that the images themselves are of intrinsic interest—although they are. Very much so, in...
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Paper Cut-Out Photos? Again, Please?
Feel free to file this one in the “Art is Irrelevant” department, but we’re not gonna lie: we thought these photographs were an amazing exercise in perspective-shifting creativity. Rich McCor, a...
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December Photo Ideas!
Writing for DigitalCameraWorld, Jeff Meyer serves up a holiday feast of nine inventive December photo ideas that you should try out. Ideas No. 2: Shoot winter textures “Winter textures” might include...
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Meshology: A Photographic Shadow-Dance
Consider Meshology: a study in people navigating nets that are not there. Here’s a quick read and a handful of strange photos to look at, and you’re done. We promise! It’s actually kind of hard to know...
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“Play to Your Weaknesses”– Miles Bergstrom
Miles Bergstrom! Miles Bergstrom is a Boston photographer, videographer and regular contributor to Fstoppers. And he [has some insights for you] on how to work within the package you’ve been handed,...
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