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5 Tips for Better Summer Photos With summer quickly approaching, here are some tips to help you make the most of your time shooting in the warm, summer months! 1. Timing Do not shoot in the middle of the day.  In ge...

6 Tips for Photographing Uncooperative Children If you have ever photographed children, then you know that their moods can often be unpredictable and change on a dime.  They may be upset about coming to your photosho...

How to Capture More Natural Photos of Kids Capturing photos of kids can be a bit of a daunting task sometimes.  They are typically on the go and are not always easily guided into natural poses and expressions.  In fa...

3 Tips for Taking Better Self Portraits We all enjoy photos of ourselves, including photos of us with our children and photos of our whole family together!  But finding someone else to take these family photos every ...

How to Care for Your Memory Card: Tips for Photographers While memory cards aren’t typically the most exciting part of photography, they are definitely an important piece of equipment that needs to be taken care of p...

Should You Hire an Accountant for Your Photography Business April 15th will be here before you know it.  If the thought of taxes and business finances sends you into a cold sweat, then now’s the perfect time to final...

Accounting Tips for Photographers For part two of this series, I continued my conversation with Karen Schultz of CKS Accounting Services and asked her all those burning photography-related accounting questions that I...

4 Signs it’s Time to Turn Your Photography Hobby into a Business Are wondering if you should turn your photography hobby into a professional photography business?  It is very common for photographers who have been s...

Top 6 Top Pet Photography Tips It’s no secret that I LOVE my dog, Huxley.  He features prominently on my Instagram account.  Right after we adopted him, my husband deployed and then a few months later, my youngest ki...

Documentary Photography: Don't Stop Documenting Your Life (Originally published in October 2017) For the past several weeks, I’ve been thinking about what to write about regarding photographing my my military family....

Editing Pet Photos in Lightroom Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 4) I love taking photos of pets - dogs, cats, horses... you name it.  I also specialize in elopement and engagement photography and many times my clients w...

Editing Magical Fairy Photos Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 3) Pretty Presets and Actions have completely changed my editing.  When I first started photography, my work was inconsistent and far from where it is today. ...

How to Replace a Sky in Photoshop Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 2) We're so excited to have Kelly Gladwin with us today for our Editing Like a Pro Series!  Kelly has been inspiring the Pretty Presets and Actions commu...

How to Get People to Smile & Laugh Naturally for Photos Be honest, how many photographers reading this are still saying, “Smile on three!  One…two…three!” or “Everyone say cheese!”?  While these phrases work wond...

Editing Studio Photography in Lightroom Edit Like a Pro Series (Part 1) Studio photography wasn't always a strong area of photography for me.  It was scary and I felt quite intimidated at first (totally normal by the...

20+ Top Pets & Their People Photos Pretty Presets & Actions Photo Challenge We are so excited to share these beautiful photos with you from our Pretty Presets and Actions photo community.  Below are our favor...

How to Use Layer Masks in Photoshop Layer Masks are one of the most useful tools in Photoshop and learning how to use them will make your editing so much easier. What is a Layer Mask?  Essentially, a Layer Mask is a ...

Knowing how to read your camera's light meter and how to compensate for exposure are important photography concepts you should understand.  Not only will it help you get your exposure correct in-camera, but it will A...

How to Edit Color in Lightroom Mobile Mobile photography is one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting fields of photography.  The relatively new capability to both take and edit photos in Lightroom on a mobile p...

Congratulations to our 2021 Lightroom Essay Scholarship Winner! We received many amazing essays written by some very incredibly talented students from around the world.  It was a pleasure to read all of the creative ...