3 Big Tips for Stunning Wedding & Portrait Photography

3 Big Tips for Stunning Wedding & Portrait Photography The amazing wedding and portrait photographer Bambi Cantrell gives us her biggest tips for lighting, location, and working with people when she's on a photo shoot. Tips for Taking Stunning Wedding Photos and & Portraits: Find the prettiest light source Work with light from

13 Composition Tips to Help You Step Up Your Photography

13 Composition Tips to help you step up your photography    Composition is the heart of your photography. Here’s wisdom from 6 world-class photographers:  Joe McNally (@joemcnallyphoto) tells you to bend the rules Camille Seaman (@camilleseaman) says think of everything as shapes and learn to "choreograph" your images Ed Kashi (@edkashi) tells us

Photo Tips: Using Light as a Language

HOW TO USE LIGHT AS A LANGUAGE Excerpt from Chapter 4, Advancing Your Photography Handbook Whether you are an amateur or a professional, every photographer knows that light is the most important factor in your photographs. Since photography means “light writing,” light is your basic tool that you are working with. Joe McNally, an outstanding

Why and How I wrote the Book Advancing Your Photography

I’ve been a photographer most of my life and teaching is a role I’ve continually found myself in since becoming a mountaineering instructor at 19.  After many workshops where I quoted notable photographers as having said this or that, a flash hit me—why not interview them and let others hear from them directly? One

AYP Archives: Portrait Photography Tips by Bambi Cantrell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUn7YPUVF8 You would have to be pretty good at what you do to be considered an icon. Think Joe Montana, Babe Ruth, and Michael Jordan. In 2004, Microsoft Corporation named Bambi Cantrell "Icon of Imaging." Three years after that, she was named "One of the 10 BEST wedding photographers in the world" and also became

Powerful Women in Photography

This week in Advancing Your Photography, we focused on two powerful women in photography: Bambi Cantrell and Anna Kuperberg. Research performed by Kodak a few years ago revealed that 90% of the world's photographs are purchased by women. To Bambi Cantrell, this is not only an astronomical number but it also provides insight into why