Blog - Brent Mail Photography

Mastering Monochromatic: The Art of Single-Color Design

Monochromatic photography uses varying shades, tints, and tones of a single color to simplify compositions, highlighting texture, form, and emotion for a cohesive, sophisticated look.

Heads and Tails: Seeing the Whole Picture

The “Heads and Tails” technique in photography enhances storytelling by capturing both front and rear perspectives, revealing emotional contrasts and inviting viewers to appreciate the subject from multiple angles.

A Tribute to Eugene: The Photographer Who Inspired Us All

How Eugene Impacted Others Through His Art and FriendshipA Legacy of Photography and Friendship The Photo BootCamp Academy community mourns the loss of Eugene, a talented photographer and cherished friend. His work, kindness, and dedication deeply touched everyone,...

Capturing Strength: The Art of Iron Photography

Photographic style is a photographer’s distinctive and consistent visual approach, encompassing composition, lighting, and artistic choices that define their unique aesthetic.

Capturing Time: A Year in Photos

A Journey in Frames: What Our Top Picks Say About Us.Reflecting on Our Photographic Journey As the year folds into memory, we photographers find ourselves reflecting on our visual narratives. Our top shots not only showcase our technical and creative growth but also...

Capturing the Drama: The Essentials of Shadow Photography

Shadow photography is fascinating because it tells a great visual story. Using light well, whether natural or artificial, is key for impactful shadows.

Through the Lens of Masters: Shaping Your Photographic Style

Photographic style is a photographer’s distinctive and consistent visual approach, encompassing composition, lighting, and artistic choices that define their unique aesthetic.

Parallel Worlds in Frames: Juxtaposition in Photography

Macro photography is all about showcasing a subject larger than it often is in real life – an extreme closeup of something small.

Unleashing Creativity with Black & White Photography

Bird photography is a form of wildlife photography capturing images of birds in their natural environment, using a camera to showcase their beauty and behavior.

Unveiling the Secret World of Bird Photography

Bird photography is a form of wildlife photography capturing images of birds in their natural environment, using a camera to showcase their beauty and behavior.

Capturing the Beauty of Wood

Architectural photography teaches us all about light and composition. It can be challenging, but also quite rewarding.

A Retrospective: Our Top Photos from Last Year

Celebrating the moments and subjects that inspired us to pick up our cameras.Top Shots of the Year: A Review As the year comes to a close and the new year begins, it's a great time to reflect on the progress we've made as photographers. One way to do this is by...

Mastering the Art of Double Exposure Photography

Explore the Creative Possibilities of Layering Photos to Create Surreal ImagesWhat are Double-Exposures? Double exposure is a technique in photography that involves layering two or more images on top of each other to create a unique and often surreal visual effect....

Photographing Traditions

Appreciating Traditions Through Photographs. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Surf Carnivals, Smoking Ceremonies, Fire Dancers, and Ritual Dances of various cultures are all traditions. Perhaps you have something unique to your family, area, region, or even Country.

Fine Art Nature Photography Tips

Eugene Brannan Shares His Fine Art Nature Editing SecretsRecently I interviewed Eugene to find out how he creates his fine art nature photography. Watch this video...Purchase Eugene's Fine Art Nature Prints here: www.leathermarkproductions.com Follow Eugene on...

Architecture Photography Tips

Architectural photography teaches us all about light and composition. It can be challenging, but also quite rewarding.

Creating Drama, Mystery And Mood With Your Images

Shooting into the light offers so much more drama, mood and warm light. It can add a little mystery to your images and allows you to experiment and play with the more fine art style of images.

Capturing Stunning Images Close to Home (50m From Front Door)

There are often some really interesting and captivating subjects right outside our own front door, we just need to slow down and look. Often we are in a hurry to get where we need to go, we just don’t slow down and really look at what’s right in front of us.