Category Archives: Tutorial Photography

How to Photograph People using Direct Sunlight

By Paul Kerins | Published: March 2, 2012

How to use direct sunlight to make your portrait photographs beautiful. Ambient light, studio light, available light and the most important light of all, star light. That gigantic mass of hydrogen and helium we call the sun that produces 386 billion billion ( not a typo ) mega-Watts of energy, that is created by so [...]

Ambient High-key Beauty Lighting

By Paul Kerins | Published: March 2, 2012

How to do ambient high-key beauty lighting using only one light source. The most beautiful light is often the simplest, coming only from a single light source. In this beauty photograph of Emma that light source was a large bay window that was behind her, and the light was simple indirect ambient sunlight being channelled [...]

Understanding Histograms

By Paul Kerins | Published: December 5, 2011

How to Use Histograms Introduction Probably the most useful as well as the least used and understood tool in your digital camera is the histogram. Histograms are the reason why I don’t have to bring my light-meter with me anymore when I am out photographing landscapes ( I will always use a light-meter when photographing [...]

A Incredibly Cheap and Easy to Make Portable Camera Stabilizer.

By Paul Kerins | Published: October 26, 2011

[ Video tutorial ] How to make portable camera stabilizer. In my last article I wrote about ways to make your photographs work, without using a tripod. Breaking the “You Must Use a Tripod” Rule. In it I talked about how to hold the camera correctly, how to breath while making photographs, and about using [...]

Breaking the “You Must Use a Tripod” Rule.

By Paul Kerins | Published: October 20, 2011

Benefits of hand-held photography and reasons for not using a tripod. How to hand-hold a camera correctly. You don’t always need to use a tripod. Yeah I said it, and it is true. You most likely have read in photography blogs, magazines, books, and perhaps been told by other photographers that you must use a [...]