See Our Pick for the Best Lens for Food Photography
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See Our Pick for the Best Lens for Food Photography

Food photography has become a staple of social media. Whether you want to document your adventures as a foodie or get started as a professional food photographer, it’s important to invest in the right gear to bring your favorite dishes to life. One of the things you will need is a lens for food photography….

How to Master Mountain Photography: Pro Tips and Secrets
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How to Master Mountain Photography: Pro Tips and Secrets

Nothing makes a photo more mesmerizing than a colossal mountain towering over the landscape. While mountains can add a sense of wonder and depth to your photos, mountain photography is not as easy as it looks.  In this post, we’ll cover a few tricks and tips professional photographers use to get those awe-inspiring mountain pictures…

Yoga Photography That Aims to Inspire
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Yoga Photography That Aims to Inspire

Beautiful scenery, unique angles, and attractive people make yoga photography a popular subgenre of sports photography. The best professional yoga photographer shows not just the athleticism of the practice, but the meditative, peacefulness of it, too.  If you want to improve your yoga photography skills, these ten tips will help you get beautiful, iconic photos…

Your Detailed Guide to Night Landscape Photography
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Your Detailed Guide to Night Landscape Photography

Once the sun sets, many photographers pack up their gear and retire for the evening. However, for the sky photographer, their job has just become far more interesting. Our eyes see many beautiful features in the night sky. Between the majesty of the Milky Way and the lone stars twinkling brightly, the dark provides a…

Cole’s Classroom Picks: The Best Camera for Product Photography
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Cole’s Classroom Picks: The Best Camera for Product Photography

Many people use cameras to take pictures of products, whether for a profession or a hobby. Regardless of why you photograph products, you want to use a camera that takes high image quality pictures.  The best camera for product photography will have high megapixels, a quick processor, and autofocus features. Popular brands that make the…

Real Estate Photography Tips for Every Photographer
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Real Estate Photography Tips for Every Photographer

Real estate photos are the first things buyers see when searching for a home online. High-quality images even help people envision themselves living in the house. Well-done real estate photography captures a property at its best angle, showcases its unique features, and hopefully helps it sell for top dollar.  But as with any photography niche,…

The Beauty of Abstract Landscape Photography
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The Beauty of Abstract Landscape Photography

In art, the term abstract is the representation of an idea rather than a replication. In abstract landscape photography, artists use natural elements to depict the concept of a landscape rather than shooting explicit images of a landscape. Unlike traditional landscape photography, which gives the viewer all of the information needed to tell them what…

Black and White Landscape Photography 101
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Black and White Landscape Photography 101

You might already be familiar with landscape photography, but black and white landscape photography is an entirely new genre unto itself. Working without color might be a little more difficult than you think, and it can take a lot of practice before your photos begin turning out the way you want them too.  However, with…

Complete Wedding Photography Checklist for Your Business
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Complete Wedding Photography Checklist for Your Business

Want to be sure you can capture the best wedding photo on that special wedding day? This wedding photography checklist will help you through getting ready and ensure each photo shot is as good as the bride and groom want. Photos to Take Before the Big Day Getting ready before the wedding is the most…

Wedding Lightroom Presets: Shooting and Editing Tips
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Wedding Lightroom Presets: Shooting and Editing Tips

Being a wedding photographer is one of the most rewarding jobs, allowing you to capture the love, emotion, and joy that two people share for one another on their special day. With a variety of venues and lighting changes during a wedding, photographers need to acquire a set of tricks that allow them to take…

The Best Way to Find Your Ideal Clients
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The Best Way to Find Your Ideal Clients

For most of us, when first starting our photography businesses, we aren’t too picky about exactly “who” our clients are.  Rightfully so, in the beginning, we are focused primarily on building our portfolio, gaining experience and making some money to help offset the costs of our new and often growing collection of equipment.  That’s totally…

The Ultimate Complete Wedding Photography Gear Guide!
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The Ultimate Complete Wedding Photography Gear Guide!

What wedding photography gear and equipment do you need? The very first video that I ever recorded for the Cole’s Classroom YouTube channel was “Our Must Have Wedding Photography Equipment” which oddly enough has still been our most viewed video yet.  At the time that was our wedding photography kit that we loved to pieces…

Second Shooting Weddings – How to Get the Opportunity!
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Second Shooting Weddings – How to Get the Opportunity!

[fusion_text] Second Shooting Weddings – How to Get the Opportunity! It doesn’t matter if you have your heart set on becoming a wedding photographer, portrait photographer, newborn photographer, commercial photographer or any other kind of photographer, without a doubt the best way to learn the ropes and jump start your own business or dream career…