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Sunrise photography advice. As you'll be up before light breaks, a torch, particularly a head torch will give you the light you need to set-up your equipment. You'll also need a good sturdy tripod and pack a graduate neutral density filter in case you find the sky's a lot lighter than the ground.

Perhaps the best piece of advice I can provide which will immediately improve one’s photography and cause it to stand out from the countless other photos on the web, is to act unusual while taking the photos.

If you’re standing upright, pointing your camera at obvious subjects, from obvious perspectives, at obvious times the day, the resulting photographs will be nothing more than…obvious.

Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a photographer who always told his subjects, “Smile big for the camera.” The problem with this fairytale is that not everyone smiles all the time.

When you cover events, your job as the photographer is not just to cover what everybody expects but to cover what they feel as well.

The Most experts agree that capturing exciting holiday photos—especially pictures of fireworks displays—requires planning. The first step is to pack your photography bag with all the necessities like batteries, extra storage cards and flash attachments (if you use removable flash accessories).

The best preparation for taking an exceptional holiday photo and lots of representative pictures from the big bash is to know your camera. Experiment with aperture and f-stop settings before the big night. A camera’s aperture must be open enough to capture light reflecting off of your subject. Manual settings allow you to control the amount of light better than automatic settings can.

5 Uncommon Snow Photography Tips That Can Transform Your Winter Scenes.

The purpose of a vignette is to keep the eyes from falling of the edge of an image and to lead the eyes back to the center of it. With the amount of white and grey in snow photos, you generally can't use a traditional dark vignette, since it will be too obvious and look out of place.

If you've got a photograph with a lot of white snow and especially one where you have add a white vignette, further emphasize the look by adding a white mat and white fram to it. The frame will merge to become part of the effect.

Street photography is an art that requires a photographer to anticipate and capture spontaneity. Many street photographers use DSLRs and film cameras, but smartphones have taken the place of some artists’ bulkier gear.

“Landscape photographers have a love affair with trees,” notes Charlie Waite, the celebrated British photographer whose scenic studies over many years reveal his deep reverence for the subject.

Tress play a huge environmental and emotional role in all of our lives. Because of our familiarity with trees-their hieght, girth, color, and shape -they play a crucial role in providing the viewer of a landscape photograph reference points for depth, distance, and dimension within the image.

If you love desserts like we do, you're probably looking to grab a camera even before your fork. Here are some tips for making the most of your photos.

Making food look as delicious as it tastes isn't always easy. There's quite an art to taking great dessert photos. To help in your quest for fabulous food pics, we curated this list of tips from expert food photographers and dessert lovers.

This shot is a great example of how a wonderful image might be right in front of you… or right under where you’re about to step. The image is titled 'Slow Down' which is obviously related to the subject - but which is also great advice for photographers.