PetPixel Discusses The Blue Hour

Here’s a piece from PetaPixel that does a nice job discussing the Blue Hour Time just before or after the golden hour that photographers cherish…

A photo from PetaPixel that demonstrates the “Blue Hour”.

How To Avoid Night Photo Mistakes

This comes from B&H Photo’s Explora – some good tips…

8 Mistakes I Have Made in Night Photography and How You Can Avoid Them

A nice article about nighttime photography mistakes – from B&H Explora

New Year’s Resolutions For A Photographer

Popular Photography offers a dozen New Year’s resolutions for making you a better photographer. Check them out here.

How To See And Photograph Light

Digital Photography School has this piece by Anthony Epes about seeing and knowing light and how that will affect the photographs you make. Check it out.

Photo Cheat Sheet

MEL365.COM has a photo cheat sheet you can download and print. Check it out.

Obvious To Some, But Not All

What you should do when you get a new camera…and you are new to photography as well.

Explora from B&H has a nice article of things you should do first. Check it out.

111 Different Looks

Petapixel reports that…

German photographer Michael Quack has created a helpful resource for photographers getting started with portrait lighting equipment. It’s a look at 111 lights and modifiers and the different looks you get using them.

Check out the article here.

Time’s 100 Most Influential Images

 Check out Time Magazine’s piece about the 100 most influential images. Each one comes with a story, and if you’ve been involved with photography, you will likely have come across some of these. If not, they are a good history lesson.

Lens Whacking – What’s That?

Premium Beat has a story about lens whacking. The name is weird enough that you might want to click over to it and check it out. Basically, you remove your lens from your camera and hold it in your fingers at the lens flange, allowing light to spill in. Then, you just continue photographing. It does make for some interesting photos. Check out the article.

Free Book Downloads From The Met

OpenCulture.com has an article about how The Metropolitan Museum has 464 books that you can download as PDF’s, or just read in your browser on your computer. Check it out here.

One thing about modern photography is that it’s very likely many photographers have gotten inspired by the works of art by previous generations. Anyone who has visited an art museum should see clear evidence of that.