The camera sharing movement had a great year in 2014, and so did our blog! Check out our most read photography articles of 2014. Thanks for being part of our community and sharing your thoughts!
1) Ten Best Photography Websites
Our most popular post of the year! A great roundup of the best websites every amateur and professional photographer should know! Which is your favorite?
2) 8 Simple But Adorable Maternity Picture Ideas
Maternity photography is growing more popular day by day. It has opened a new area for professional photographers to explore. Like all subjects, pregnant women also like to look beautiful in the photos though it is challenging to photograph them during that time.
Check out these great ideas for pregnancy pictures that your clients will cherish for a long time.
3) 17 Unlikely GoPro Ideas
GoPros were originally invented for capturing awesome surfing shots. It’s no surprise that popularity quickly spread to other extreme athletes, and a quick Youtube search for ‘gopro’ will prove its popularity. But the GoPro is so much more than that! It’s a tiny, high definition camera that you can put almost anywhere. Check out these 17 unlikely GoPro ideas.
4) Small Wedding Ideas: DIY Photo Booth for Under $100
Photo booths are a fun addition to any wedding, enjoyed by guests of all ages and producing memories that last a lifetime. But, if you’re looking for a wedding photo booth online, you’ll find that many of the photo booth ideas revolve around photo booth apps for an iPad that takes low-quality photos, or requires paying upwards of a thousand dollars for a “professional” booth. It’s a fun wedding idea, but, it shouldn’t break the bank! Luckily, the ingredients for a photo booth wedding are pretty standard fare. And, with the bill coming to under $100, this is a small wedding idea that can have a big impact!
5) 8 Photography Terms that Commonly Confuse Beginners
While photography is certainly an artistic endeavor, the tools are heavily rooted in optics and physics, and the jargon isn’t always entirely clear. In this post, we take a look at some of the most common points of confusion for beginning photographers.
6) Using Free Time Lapse Software FFMPEG on a Mac with Your GoPro HERO3
There’s something surreal about a time lapse video. Quite literally, it’s a time warp — the ability to watch 12 hours of continuous reality in a 2 minute video. Slow moving objects like barges and clouds speed along, shadows methodically move across your backdrop, and patterns begin to emerge from the chaos.
In this post, we walk you through creating a time lapse video with your GoPro, from setting up and snapping hundreds (thousands?) of pictures all the way through stitching them together on your Mac.
7) Camera Review: Canon EOS 5D Mark II vs Mark III
If you’re one of these people who are in the market for a full frame DSLR, and you’ve narrowed it down to the Canon EOS 5D but can’t decide between the older Mark II or the new Mark III, I wish I had problems like you. My petty jealousy aside, it can be a difficult decision to make. If you go with the Mark II, you could save about $700—no small amount—and still end up with an amazing camera. But, depending on your intended use for it, the Mark II could be a $2500 disappointment. It’s worth taking a closer look at the differences between the two to see if the Mark III is worth the extra scratch (spoiler alert: it totally is). Read the full article here.
8) Creating an Airplane Hyperlapse with a GoPro
In the age of jet flight, it’s easy to forget how amazing the airplanes are that take us across the country in mere hours (take that, Oregon trail of two hundred years ago!) We’re able to cover thousands of miles in an afternoon. And if you look out the window, you’ll see some mountains or some fields and some cities. I don’t know anyone who has stared out the window for an entire flight. So that’s why I set up my GoPro to do just that. Check out how I did it.
9) The Most Popular Camera Gear
Since the launch of CameraLends last year, we’ve learned a lot about the value of folks’ gear. We’ve had hundreds of reservations across every major metro within the United States, and as the year is about to end, we thought it’d be fun to dive into our data and see what the hottest gear has been and how much our lenders earned on average. Here are the results.
10) 8 Tips for Photographers and Videographers Fresh out of Art School
Your portfolio is polished. Your recently-acquired diploma hangs on the wall. A stack of business cards sit waiting. But why aren’t clients ringing your phone off the hook?
An art school education teaches you all about art. Only art though, and not how to run the business where you exchange your art for hard earned Benjamins. Here we outline some tips for establishing your money-earning, tax-paying photography/filming business.
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