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Tips on improving your photo-shoot workflow

October 8, 2012 Neil vN 20 Comments

Wedding photography - improving your shooting workflow

As a companion piece to the previous two articles •  Tips & advice for second shooters at weddings , and •  Tips on improving your photography technique, I want to offer some advice on shooting workflow. Not post-production workflow, but rather some things to look out for while shooting. These articles with tips are just as relevant for any area of photography. The techniques here are applicable to any field or level of photography. I feel so strongly about the advice here, that I'd go as far to say that the further  Read more inside...

Photographers – Tips on improving your photography technique

September 11, 2012 Neil vN 13 Comments

Tips on improving your photography technique

When I posted the article with tips and advice for second-shooters, it generated a lot of conversation in the comments. I want to follow it up with a related article on how to improve your technique as a photographer. It is general advice for any photographer. And it is especially pertinent if you're a second photographer / 2nd shooter. Camera technique can be distilled into a few elements: - composition & framing, including lens choice - timing of the photograph, ie that moment - choice of aperture (for depth of field) - choice  Read more inside...

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