11 Things Beginning Photographers Need to Stop Doing!

So; you’ve finally gotten yourself a camera, lens and memory card and think you are ready to enter the world of photography. Some of you just want to play with it because you think it’s a fun hobby. You aren’t wrong. Some, want to give it a go as a business.

Either way; I’ve been noticing what I find to be extremely disturbing trends among new photographers these days. Trends that I am going to address here. Things that need to stop.

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Rebekah Shibao Shoot Notes

Rebekah Shibao – Shoot Notes.

As you may know; I’ve been working on shooting in my studio more often and so I’ve been of course inviting beautiful ladies over to shoot and Rebekah was one of them. I shot with her the same day that I photographed McKenzie Lynn.

I think that Rebekah reached out to our High Speed Magazine profile on Instagram; and expressed an interest in shooting for the magazine. We had the opportunity to chat a bit back and forth via the platform.

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How to Know What F-Stop to Use

One of the biggest challenges I see these days are new photographers who have no idea how to use f-stops. In fact; so many of them don’t have a clue about exposure. They seem to think that you underexpose your images and then fix it later in photo manipulation software.

While that is one way of doing it; it certainly isn’t necessarily the best or even right way of doing it. Hopefully I will help cut through the confusion in this post. Here is how to know what F-Stop to use to get the proper exposures.

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Shoot Notes: Barbara Palacio Snow Shoot

Shooting In The Snow with Barbara Palacios.

I recently got to go up to Southern California’s Mountain High Ski Resort to shoot for Luxury Standard Magazine. This was both fun and challenging to say the least. Snow is not ever going to be an easy element to shoot in. After all; you’re talking about a huge reflective potentially blinding surface area. 

Your camera is going to want to turn all of that white ground cover, into gray if you don’t expose properly.

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How to Place an Image in Text in Photoshop

In this video tutorial Aaron Nace from Phlearn demonstrates how you can use a photo to create cool looking text using Adobe Photoshop. Lets say that you took a great wedding photo and you want to turn it into a beautiful artistic expression in text.

Nace starts with choosing the text and font choose a thick enough text for the image to show through).

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