Mailman’s Postie Adventures

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Personal Projects to Learn And Growing Further
Keeping the joy of photography alive for you.What is a personal or passion project? A personal project is something you choose to focus on to photograph over time. It can be a long-term project with no deadline or end. Your project becomes something that you want to...

Creating Triptychs With Your Photographs
A triptych is a set of three associated artistic, literary or musical works intended to be appreciated together. In photography, a triptych might involve taking one image and splitting it up into three different sections.

Best Photography Portfolio Website
Why it’s important to showcase you best photographs?
Are you at that stage in your photography journey that you want to showcase your very best images?

Choosing Your Top Shots And Best Images From The Past Year
Why going through your previous year’s images is important and how to easily choose your top shots in Lightroom.

Remembering The Holidays Through Photographs
Capturing your memories during holidays.What is photographing the holidays? There are many holidays around the end of the year that present us with multiple opportunities to photograph family, events, friends and celebrations. Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s Eve,...

Creating Cheerful, Artistic Photos With High Key Photography
What does HIGH KEY mean in photography?What is high key photography? High key photography is described as creating images that use mostly lighter tones and whites. These images have less contrast in them, have little to no shadows and are typically photographed with a...

Using Reflections in Your Photography
Learn how using reflections can help you create more interesting imagesWhat is photography using reflections? It's pretty simple really, reflection photography is anytime you create an image using a reflective surface to mirror your subject. This is sometimes also...

5 Tips For Using Slow Shutter Speed
What happens when you use a slow shutter speed?Mostly we try to keep our shutter speed high enough so that we’re not introducing blur or camera shake into our images. There are times and places though when we want to show motion or produce a more creative image. Using...

General Rules For Shutter Speeds In Photography
Typical rules for using shutter speeds in photographyWhen first starting out in photography one of the most asked questions is “What is the best shutter speed to use?” Generally speaking, using the standard rule of thumb is to make the shutter speed equal to your...

Using Neutral Density Filters To Affect Shutter Speed
Creative use of shutter speed and using neutral density (ND) filters to show movement during the dayHow is it in those crowded tourist spots do some photographers capture images with no people in them? Are they spending hours in Photoshop removing them? Maybe, but...

How Looking Up in your Photography Creates Unique Images
Change the perspective in your photography by looking up.What is looking up in photography? Any time we aim our camera upward would be considered looking up photography. Whenever you choose to photograph objects that are above your head. For example, things in trees,...

When to Use a Fast Shutter Speed?
What does using a fast shutter speed do to an image? Shutter speed is one of the ways we can control the outcome of an image. We can choose to create motion using slower shutter speeds and we can freeze the motion using faster shutter speeds. In this article, we’ll...

Using Shutter Speed For A Scene With High Contrast
How to use your shutter speed in a scene with dark and bright lightYou’ve been there, you walk into a gorgeous landscape or city scene and the light is amazing. The shadows are amazing. They are both incredible. The question is how can I shoot this? What can I do to...

Using Shutter Speed to Break the Rules
How to break shutter speed rules and still create epic images!What’s the first thing you notice when you look at an image? Is it sharp and in focus or not? Right? It’s one of the main ‘rules’ of photography. Well, there are times when you don’t want a tack sharp shot....

4 Common Shutter Speed Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
How to avoid common shutter speed mistakes in your photographyShutter speed can be a tricky thing in photography depending on what it is you’re trying to capture. You can go from accidental blur in images to those shots you’d like to add a bit of blur into...

The Ultimate Guide to Shutter Speed in Photography
Shutter Speed and Photography: Everything You've Ever Wanted to KnowYou probably already know how important shutter speed is when it comes to creating sharp photographs. But did you know that shutter speed can be used as a tool for creating images that have impact and...

Capturing Life’s Simple Pleasures
Learn how to capture life's simple pleasures.What are simple pleasures? There are so many little things in life that we tend to overlook. Little moments, conversations, sunrises, sunsets, days at the beach, days off, quite time reading and the list goes on. Simple...

How to Capture Year-Round Photos
Seasonal Photography Tips: Photographing Summer and Winter.What are Seasonal Vibes in photography? Let's talk about capturing year-round photos. You know you’ve seen those photographs that make you want to be somewhere. That amazing sunset or beach, the drink with an...

Creating Moody, Artistic Photos With Low Key Photography
What does LOW KEY mean in photography? What is low key photography? The definition of low key photography is a genre of photography consisting of shooting dark-colored scenes and emphasizing natural or artificial light only on specific areas in the frame....

Creating Complete And Harmonious Images Using Visual Balance
Learn how to control the visual balance in your images. What is visual balance in photography? Visual balance is one of the rules of composition. It is created when the objects in your frame are evenly distributed across the scene using the visual weight,...
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