Forum: PP Blog

Unless you’ve been way off the grid lately you’ve heard the news that everyone is a photographer now and the imminent death of professional...

It may come as a surprise to many that your ability to survive as a professional photographer is only peripherally related to your skill with a...

My first camera was an Argus C3, a rangefinder camera my dad brought back from Italy at the end of World War II. I would carry that thing everywhere,...

Yes, I realize that Lightroom 5 was just released so it may seem like I’m trying to skew the results by comparing Adobe Lightroom 4 (LR4) and Corel...

Lens lust is a terrible thing which can turn a normally intelligent, decisive person into a quivering mass of indecision. I have seen lens lust ruin...

Sometimes when you see professional photographers in action it can get depressing when you mentally start adding up the cost of equipment and quickly...

I realize the title is a bit harsh, but that’s the reality. You can develop a regular and systematic way of backing up all your photos or face losing...

There was a great disturbance in the photography force when the Chicago Sun-Times laid off their entire photography staff. The shocking development...

It’s not often we get awoken by the clap of thunder in the early morning hours, a sound that promises flooded streets and a snarl of commuter...

I’m using the term “on camera” to make a distinction between portable strobes and the type you use primarily indoors, requiring a wall plug for...

School is going to be out soon for most people and early summer vacations are right around the corner. Along with that are the inevitable Facebook...

In professional photography taking the pictures is the easy part. The tricky bit is getting the job in the first place and that frequently involves...

Multiplicity photography is the art of putting the subject in the photo more than once. The most common application is in sports photography or...

Unless you have an actual waterproof housing, which are really expensive, there aren’t any DSLRs you can submerge and expect them to keep working. So...

Since it’s wedding season, I thought I’d cover the second most common question I get and that’s what kind of lens to get for shooting a wedding. This...

There’s an old joke in the advertising business, I think it dates back to the real era of Mad Men, that says if you think advertising is expensive...

We’ve talked about it being a bad idea to take on a wedding without any experience and clauses you should have in your contracts. At least a few of...

It’s not every week a major software company can infuriate one segment of their customers and confuse another but Adobe managed to do just that with...

As schools gratefully prepare to send kids home for the summer there are some great photography projects you can do as a family that are not only fun...

You can’t walk the walk unless you can at least talk the talk and when it comes to buying lighting gear or reading tutorials it helps to understand...