Our members had lots of fun shooting for our Window Light Portrait photography challenge in November and we wanted to share some of their success with you. There's a lot you can do without owning expensive lights or specialty lenses and it starts with paying attention to your subject's position...
Check out the amazing shots our members produced while participating in our recent "Autumn Harvest" photography challenge. They explored the human side of the autumn season this month. Rather than doing the typical photographing fall foliage shots, they headed out into their communities in...
Negative space photography is the focus of this month's members challenge at Viewfinder Mastery and Matt took the opportunity to film our latest photography lesson while sailing with friends in northern Norway. The fjords of the Lofoten archipelago were the perfect setting for practicing...
Join Viewfinder Mastery team member and street photographer extraordinaire Leah Claar as she guides Matt around downtown Zurich while practicing a creative exercise known as "Creative Constraints". Leah shares several must-know tips for capturing street photography. In this video, her...
In this video, Matt shares five more composition techniques that will help you make more creative images in your own photography. Drawing on his 15+ years as a professional photographer (and photography teacher), Matt has seen these five tips help countless...
In this video, Matt shares five great composition techniques that will help you make more creative images in your own photography. Drawing on his 15+ years as a professional photographer (and photography teacher), Matt has seen these five tips help countless...
Join us for a FREE LIVE TRAINING on Thursday, February 22nd and in less than 1 hour, your photography skills will be transformed as you learn Matt's three proven formulas for shooting stunning movement photos – every time! Full details via the link below.
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Autumn is the best time of year to be a photographer (of any kind). Autumn leaves are a delight to photograph, whether you're interested in capturing Autumn landscape scenes or making creative Autumn portraits or even still life compositions. Just don't miss the opportunity to explore and create...
In this video Matt takes you along on a recent photography job, documenting the annual Sechseläuten event in Zurich, Switzerland. Go behind the scenes with Matt as he captures the event from all angles, sharing tips about event photography along the way and explaining some interesting (and...
This month our member's are exploring the outdoors and working on their June assignment, "Zooming-in to Nature". It's all about getting up close and personal with natural subjects, whether photographing birds, flowers, insects – or other natural subjects. Embrace your inner David...
This month our members are working on a very cool photo assignment called "Looking Up". The whole concept is based upon constricting yourself, in order to get creative and become aware of fun new perspectives that you might not ordinary use in your photography.
We also took the...
At Viewfinder Mastery, we get a lot of questions about lenses, especially from our newer members who are just getting started on their digital photography journey.
Do you go for a zoom lens? What about a fixed prime? Is there an ideal range or focal length to start with? Should...