Framing pictures can be something of a mundane process. It’s easy to fall into the trap of using standard frame sizes, styles and materials, leaving little to the imagination. If you bring creativity and fresh ideas to your photography on a regular basis, why not extend that to creative ways of displaying your photos for everyone to see?
Today’s quick tip will be looking at four fun, funky ways to frame your photos in style.
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Different photographers take different approaches towards giving out prints. Some charge a fairly high fee and handle printing entirely themselves, others are happy to provide high-res digital files for a client to order their own.
Today I’ll be suggesting a few innovative ways to be generous with printing, and highlighting why I think it’s an important idea to get right!
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As your photography skills grow and mature, you may find yourself wanting to take part in various photography contests and competitions. This is a great thing, and gives you the chance to compare your work with other talented photographers.
Though the possibility of winning is always a motivating factor, the process of critiquing your own work and selecting images to submit is just as valuable. Equally, shooting specifically for a competition is a liberating experience that leaves plenty of room for creativity.
Read on for a handful of quick tips and techniques to bear in mind when looking into photography competitions.
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Whether or not you’ve already learned this lesson the hard way, appreciating that your hard drive isn’t going to last forever is an important thing to understand. There’s no worse feeling than losing a hard drive, knowing that it contained several hundred (or thousand!) images that you didn’t have stored elsewhere.
Today’s Quick Tip will be making the case for always keeping a stringent backup of your photographs – onsite and offsite – and showcasing a few tools to help with the process.
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We’re starting a new regular feature today – Quick Tips. These will be posted twice a week, and will give you a quick piece of photography advice, demonstrate a simple technique, or just give a quick dose of inspiration! If you have any ideas for Quick Tip posts, I’d love to hear them on Twitter.
There’s no denying that photography is an expensive hobby or profession. We regularly deal with high quality equipment that comes at a price. Today, however, we’re going to quickly showcase a few super-simple, inexpensive gadgets that can make your life much easier as a photographer.
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