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Five Great Photography Ideas for 2024

2024 is here—can you believe it? I certainly cannot! It really feels like 2023 flew by, and the older I get, the faster life seems to go. In this article, I want to explore five photography ideas that you can try this year and see where the adventures take you.

Capture the Seasons

One goal I have for this year is to find a beautiful composition and capture that scene across multiple seasons. For example, I would love to find a minimalist, beautiful lone tree in a field and photograph it in Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.

Some photographers do

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Night Photography Tips From Nat Geo Photographer Keith Ladzinski

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Glowing tents dot the grass around Les Cheserys Lake in the French Alps. | Photograph by Keith Ladzinski

As part of its 2023 in Review series, National Geographic has not only revealed its “Pictures of the Year,” the iconic publication has also worked with its photographers to deliver a series of how-to articles designed to help amateur shutterbugs up their game heading into 2024.

Alongside educational articles on portraits, wildlife, and underwater photography, written by Celeste Sloman, Jasper Doest, and Jennifer Hayes, respectively, famed Nat Geo photographer Keith Ladzinski wrote about “How to take great photos at night.”

Scouting and

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Top Spring Landscape Photography Tips

Top Spring Landscape Photography Tips: Spring

Spring is a time of new growth, flowers and color; we lose the beige of late winter and get the fresh spring greens.

Before you go out looking for spring landscapes, take a moment to consider what constitutes spring. Think bluebells, fresh spring growth and new bracken unfurling to open up and cover the dead bracken of last year.

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5 Tips to Make Apple’s Journal App a Photography Powerhouse

Two iPhones show the new Journal app on screen.

Last week, Apple released its latest iOS update, and with it the new Journal app. While Journal seems simple, it can actually be quite handy for managing photography shoots and other projects.

Journal lets users save photos, videos, voice memos, locations, and even social media posts or web pages. Entries can have all these tidbits of information as well as a caption as long, or short, as needed to better organize the user’s thoughts. While Apple’s new tool isn’t just for photographers, there’s a clear use case for organizing projects this way.

These tips will help turn Journal into a

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Helpful Tips and Advice for Landscape Photography

It pays to take time to reflect on your work, and perhaps no time is better for that than the arrival of a new year. This fantastic video tutorial features an experienced landscape photographer doing just that and offering loads of helpful tips and advice as well.

Coming to you from Michael Shainblum, this awesome video tutorial walks viewers through various settings, techniques, and challenges he faced while creating some of his best shots of 2023. His first photograph, a spontaneous capture of Bridal Veil Falls with a rainbow at Yosemite National Park, exemplifies the magic of patience and timing

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11 iPhone Photography Tips to Get Better Shots

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iPhones are renowned for their impressive cameras, but capturing a truly great shot takes more than just pressing the shutter button. This guide presents essential and actionable tips to help elevate your iPhone photography. From mastering lighting and composition to taking full advantage of available features and settings, these tips will help anyone looking to enhance their photographic skills.

Tip: if you also produce video content, ditch your phone and get a vlogging camera.

1. Never Miss a Shot

Sometimes, the best shot is the one you manage to take, particularly when it comes to snapping family moments and important

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iPhone Photography Tips From Professional Improved My Iceland Photos

  • Nature photographer Chris Burkard offered me iPhone photography advice before my trip to Iceland.
  • He said to use the wide-angle lens, put objects in the foreground, and play with lighting.
  • My iPhone photos came out so much better, and I saw Iceland with a more trained eye.

Iceland is known for its otherworldly landscapes and incredible phenomena like the midnight sun and northern lights. Ahead of my visit there this summer, I wanted to know how to capture the best

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Candid Photography Tips to Make It Aesthetic and Instagramable

Candid photography or better known as candid photos, is a technique for taking photos. As explained in the book “Photographing Children: A Handbook of Manual/Digital Photography”, photo candid is a technique for taking photos secretly.

Explanation about candid photography also explained in the book “Visual Literacy: Benefits and Tricks of Photography”. In the book, photos candid is defined as a term used for spontaneous, surreptitious and unannounced photos.

Nonetheless, currently photos candid not completely taken silently. There are also photographers who deliberately direct the model or photo object to be stylish candid. So, what are the tips for taking

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