Interesting viewpoints of photography as of today.

What is a photograph and better yet what is a photographer?  These terms have become very hard to define lately.  For the last 200 years or so photography has been a beautiful and unique medium defined by its ability to portray a reality as seen through the photographers eyes.  To be a photographer meant that you used a camera to capture a subject and then made a print, end of story.  It was honest and simple but tragically those days are over.  In the last few decades the advent and easy access to digital manipulating software has bred a new generation of image makers who rely heavily or fully on software to produce their artwork.  This has resulted in the creation of a new artistic medium, digital-art, which for some reason has been recklessly grouped in with photography.  Photography has now become a free for all genre of art with…

Top 10 Things I’ve Learned My First Year as a Professional Photographer

This post is way overdue, but I figured that as I go along in photography journey, I can update you guys on my progress.

As some of you may know, I am a professional photographer and I have been booking clients for a year. I’ve learned so much so far and I would love to share what I learned with other photographers or those who may be interested in photography.

I am self-taught and unfortunately have no mentor, so I want to share information about photography tips for new professionals. This series will be called, “Building My Photography Business” and this is the first post in the series.

It’s so important to learn from our mistakes, so these are the Top 10 Things I’ve Learned My First Year as a Professional Photographer.

Now that we’ve covered a number of fundamentals in photography, from composition and light to focus and POV, let’s now think about elements out in the world that we can use to create more visually interesting images: shapes, lines, textures, and patterns. Today, we’re excited for photographer Evan Zelermyer, the blogger at Urban Mosaic, to share his ideas and illustrate shape, line, texture, and pattern through his urban, architectural, and abstract photography.

Urban Mosaic is the result of many years spent exploring New York City’s five boroughs, searching for interesting sights and finding lesser-known nooks and crannies. New York is a large and varied place, and serves as an endless source of visual inspiration. The goal on my blog is to provide a fresh perspective on familiar urban sights (streets, subways, architecture, etc.), and also to reveal hidden beauty in the marginal, little-noticed details of everyday city life.

Take…