Category Archives: Phogropathy’s Photography Tips

Take Better Zoo Photos – Overcome These 4 Obstacles

Take Better Zoo Photos – Overcome These 4 Obstacles

Four Obstacles We Must Overcome to Take Better Zoo Photos Yes, it’s possible to get some amazing photographs at the zoo, but we must overcome some fairly large obstacles in order to walk away with keepers. Today I thought I’d share with you some of my thoughts on how to get the most out ofContinue Reading

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Let’s Edit #15 – How to Process a Vibrant Sunrise

Let’s Edit #15 – How to Process a Vibrant Sunrise

One of the most commonly photographed subjects throughout the world is that point in time when the sun rests upon the horizon. Whether it’s sunrise or sunset the sky will light up with vibrant colors of reds, purples, pinks, oranges and more. It’s truly a beautiful time of day to photograph and there’s no wonderContinue Reading

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Let’s Edit #14 – Night Sky Photography

Let’s Edit #14 – Night Sky Photography

Yesterday I published a post that talks all about how to take better star photographs. While I’d been planning a post on this subject for some time, I thought it’d be nice to have it coincide with a Let’s Edit video on the same subject so this week’s video is all about editing photographs of the starsContinue Reading

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How To Take Better Photos of The Stars

How To Take Better Photos of The Stars

Over the last year or so I’ve dabbled in photographing the night sky (astrophotography) and almost without a doubt every time I share a photograph of the stars here on the site, or edit one in my Let’s Edit videos I get asked the simple question of “How did you take that?”. Today I’d likeContinue Reading

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[DISCUSS] Gear Envy – Hello, I’m John And…

[DISCUSS] Gear Envy – Hello, I’m John And…

I was once addicted to buying new photography related gadgets. (Okay I still kind of am) Does your Wish List Look Like This?   You might also suffer from gear envy! Sit back and let me tell you a story about my struggles with gear envy and impulsively buying photography related items. The Spending SpreeContinue Reading

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Let’s Edit #13 – Light the Path

Let’s Edit #13 – Light the Path

Earlier this week I shared with you the final image from this Let’s Edit – Light the Path. It was a well received photograph over on Facebook and those who have seen this week’s Let’s Edit over on YouTube have been giving a lot of great feedback as well. That said – as with every Let’sContinue Reading

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Let’s Edit #12 – A Flower

Let’s Edit #12 – A Flower

Here we are again with another weekly Let’s Edit video and as we continue to learn how to edit photos in Lightroom I thought it’d be beneficial to show you a couple flower edits as we head into the spring season. Let’s Edit #12 – A Flower In the video below I take the timeContinue Reading

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Find the Confidence to Share Your Photos

Find the Confidence to Share Your Photos

If there’s one thing that I see over and over again when talking to newbie photographers it’s people who are afraid to take that leap to put their photographs out there for the world to see. Sure they’ll tell close friends and family and maybe even share occasionally on Facebook behind a ‘friends only’ privacyContinue Reading

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