by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 2, 2016 | Free Tips, Spring
I really hope the snow has melted wherever you find yourself in the world. It’s been a tough winter for many people living in North America … one where I’m sure there were more people holding snow shovels than cameras. But now that the daffodils are announcing the...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 1, 2016 | Free Tips, Spring
We’re proud to present a two part series of HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH FLOWERS photo tips. Many of the pictures were taken by people just like you. They love photography and they love flowers and they were willing to get their knees dirty. That’s pretty much all it...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 1, 2016 | Free Tips, Spring
Any milestone or family event deserves special photographic consideration. The end of a school year is as good a time as any to point out some basics to preserve those memories. I realize that in the Southern Hemisphere you’re in the middle of the school year. (I only...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 1, 2016 | Free Tips, Spring
Our photographic celebration of life itself continues with Part Two of How to Photograph Flowers. If you missed Part One, you can find it here. Again, I’ve used many of the photographs you folks posted on our Facebook page as examples – thank you for your talents and...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Mar 31, 2016 | Free Tips
Beautiful, soft portrait lighting is all around us if you know how to look for it. Scout your house and neighborhood for a place that has this gorgeous light and you’ll be ready to shoot spontaneous headshots that have a classic, professional look. By that I mean a...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Mar 31, 2016 | Free Tips
Beautiful light makes just about everything look good, but when you mix it with some water it’s almost hard to miss. Hopefully, you’ll find yourself bathed in both of them sometime soon. If you and your camera both get a little bit wet, don’t worry, it’s going to be...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Mar 31, 2016 | Free Tips
The beach is one of those places where every single photographic possibility has been done several hundred billion times by several hundred billion amateur photographers and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. We can all learn from each other’s mistakes and successes...
by Rochelle Hepworth | May 4, 2015 | Free Tips
Any visit with grandparents is an opportunity to add to the family photographic record— especially if they don’t live nearby. It’s not always easy or convenient to gather multiple generations in one spot—you can meet resistance at both ends of the age spectrum—but as...
by Rochelle Hepworth | May 4, 2015 | Free Tips
Family portraits are pictures of people and faces and not pictures of clothes—this is not a fashion shoot. If the clothes dominate the picture then I think it’s going in the wrong direction. I think clothes in the official family picture need to be simple, elegant and...
by Rochelle Hepworth | May 4, 2015 | Free Tips
Whenever I address the intricacies of the simple headshot, I start with this graphic. I used my wireless lighting kit—that’s one little portable flash, an umbrella and a light stand. Today I’d just like you to consider many of the things that go into a simple black...
by Rochelle Hepworth | May 4, 2015 | Free Tips
Learning to recognize the details that tell stories when you are out there in the real world is an acquired skill. It’s actually one of the great benefits of being a photographer. It changes the way you see everything. We are surrounded with symbols and objects that...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 30, 2015 | Free Tips
My wife and I disagree about exactly what women want. Fortunately for you, my male companion, I KNOW what they want and that could be very helpful information for you this Mother’s Day. They simply want pictures of themselves with their children. I aim to help you...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 30, 2015 | Free Tips
I would love it if all of the dads and husbands out there who are married to the family photographer could read this article. If you don’t own a camera and you feel klutzy when you occasionally want to document mom with the kids— or your photographer wife all by...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 30, 2015 | Free Tips
If you casually let the horizon line in a photograph land where it may, you’ve put yourself at the mercy of one of the boldest graphic elements that will ever appear in your pictures. And it appears so often in photographs, you need to be in charge of it and use it to...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 30, 2015 | Free Tips
It may seem perfectly logical to put the red focusing square on your subject when you push the button, but the unfortunate result is perfectly centered subjects and boring compositions. It’s one of the most basic of amateur mistakes and one of the most...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 30, 2015 | Free Tips
I’ve mentioned digital noise a few times in the Photo Tips and every time I do I receive several questions—not the least of which is What is Digital Noise? It feels like a loose end hanging out there, so I’ll address it today. These hot summer days seem like a good...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 30, 2015 | Free Tips
Anything that floats in The Alexander Kelsh Navy has smokestacks and they’re all made of nails. That’s what I love most about his boats and that’s why I used a telephoto lens to put the background out-of-focus; I wanted the nails to pop. Both of these pictures were...
by Rochelle Hepworth | Apr 30, 2015 | Free Tips
The cell phone camera comes as close to being the perfect family photo camera as any camera out there. (Keyword: close. It’s not perfect by a long shot.) It’s always nearby, it’s light in weight, it makes sharing your photographs crazy easy, the quality of the...
