Good and Evil, Black and White, Yin and Yang: meet JPEG and RAW, the newest members of the never-ending battle royale club.
Visit most photography forums today and you’re bound to find an intense discussion on the benefits of shooting one file format or another. Everyone has an opinion, and they might as well be [...]

For this week’s photography tip, let’s focus on discovering what soft light is, and how to find it!
What’s soft light? It’s light that’s like butter. Does that help? No? Ok, let’s explore this a little further.
Light is considered harsh when the resulting shadows and highlights are strong. That is, there’s a very defined separation between [...]

A very special day for men is right around the corner - the 4th of July! Who can’t take heart in the endless detonation opportunities we have for that wonderful day?
I wanted to dedicate this post to helping you get some great shots for this event. The techniques are really pretty simple! All you need [...]

it seems like everything is about being green this days. Green cars. Green homes. However, there’s one piece of green that you want to stay away from, and that’s the green box mode on your camera!

Sure, it’s great when you’re new to photography and just bought a camera. You might have even taken the camera [...]

Alright you budding professional photographers! Here’s a fun little tip that you can use to create some images guaranteed to get a ‘ooohh - cool!’ reaction from your friends! 
This is how it turns out, as taken by a wedding couple of mine from last year:
 

 
It’s actually very simple to do, but you’ll want to practice [...]

Hey everyone! Welcome to our second installment of photo tips here at Sparkplugging.com.
For today’s tip, we are going to get back to basics and cover one of the most simple rule of composition: the rule of thirds. I actually like to think of it more as a suggestion, since there will be plenty of times [...]