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Tiny Portraits: 10 Newborn Photography Tips for Beginners Feb 23rd 2016

Tiny Portraits: 10 Newborn Photography Tips for Beginners

Not much is sweeter than a brand new baby—and of course that sweetness should be captured on camera. But taking a portrait of a tiny person that's just a few days old is challenging, to say the leas

Adobe Photoshop Express for Android Review Feb 09th 2016

Adobe Photoshop Express for Android Review

When you need a lot of editing power, Photoshop is the go-to solution, with a wide variety of tools and options. But what if you don't need all those options? What if you favor working on your Android

Photoshop Mix Review Jan 27th 2016

Photoshop Mix Review

The Pros and Cons of Adobe's Touchscreen Photo Editor Photoshop is one of the most popular image editors around, but, sometimes users don't want to wait until they can sit down and o

12 Steps to Start a Photography Business Jan 12th 2016

12 Steps to Start a Photography Business

Maybe you've had it up to here with your 9-5. Maybe you want to be your own boss. Or maybe, you just want to do what you really love, and get paid for it. Whatever your motiva

5 Real Estate Photography Lighting Techniques To Help Capture Any Property, Beautifully Dec 29th 2015

5 Real Estate Photography Lighting Techniques To Help Capture Any Property, Beautifully

At first, real estate photography seems like a breeze. How hard could it be to shoot a couple of empty rooms? Quite challenging, actually… But the biggest problems in real s

The Best Lenses for Wildlife Photography Nov 17th 2015

The Best Lenses for Wildlife Photography

While the camera is a great tool for capturing life as we see it, the right lenses can help capture life closer then we're actually able to see it. Photographing that bird taking off down the lake, th

Professional Digital Cameras for Beginners Nov 03rd 2015

Professional Digital Cameras for Beginners

Breaking into the field of professional photography certainly comes with a long list of questions. How do I get started? What area should I go into? And of course: What camera should I bu

Moving and Grooving: 9 Dance Photography Tips for Beginners Sep 23rd 2015

Moving and Grooving: 9 Dance Photography Tips for Beginners

An image is a moment frozen in time—but often it's the motion that's trickiest to capture. So how do you represent an art form that's constantly moving with just a still image? Toss in the typically

Published: 07 Sep 2015 Advantages and Disadvantages of External Flash Photography Sep 08th 2015

Advantages and Disadvantages of External Flash Photography

In a previous blog post, we talked about the art of flash photography. In this article, SmartPHOTOeditors delves into the advantages and disadvantages of external flash photography. A Brief Histor

19 Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Photograph Today Aug 18th 2015

19 Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Photograph Today

Photography's history is about more than simply the invention of the camera—the artists behind the lens have played a big role in defining how images are taken today. From Ansel Adams to James Van D