Composition can make or break your images. Do it right and you have a stunner. Get it wrong and you have an image that lacks punch and interest. We don’t want that. When looking at ways to compose your shot, you’ll generate more photography ideas too. Here are 3 tips to help you compose images that don’t suck!
Portrait Lighting Patterns a Free Lesson from our new Portrait Fundamentals Course
Want a free preview of one of the lessons inside our new Portrait Fundamentals course? Here’s your chance to see what the course is like from the inside! Come watch Lesson 7 Portrait Lighting Patterns. Even if you decide not to buy it this is a great lesson and you will get a lot from just this video, no obligations to buy anything just watch for free.
Photography Challenge – Showcase Your Best Images and Enter to Win
New feature on Digital Photo Mentor – the photography challenge. This month your challenge is to showcase your best image, and enter to win a great prize. Even better you’ll have a great gallery of your images just for you!
How to Create a Dramatic Profile Portrait Anywhere Without Using Flash
You can create a stunningly dramatic profile portrait anywhere without using flash. Follow this tutorial to see how you can use natural light and minimal equipment to make a great portrait like this at almost any indoor location.
Photographer Interview Series: Food Photographer Nicole S Young
Seattle photographer Nicole Young’s advice for what you can do right now to become a better photographer is to “Stop reading and get out with your camera! Make some beautiful photographs, and then make some more.” In this episode of our photographer interview series, Nicole shares her favorite image along with a few more as well as her thoughts on success, failure and what she’d do if she could start all over again.




