Knowing Your Rights: A Brief Follow-up

There were some great comment’s on yesterday’s article about knowing your rights as a photographer, some of which were quite scary. Greg Banville commented that the sheet regarding photographer’s rights has helped him out of a sticky situation before, while Jessica had a strange encounter of her own:

I stopped when I saw an ambulance [...]

Photoassignment.net/Cheapshooter Photos of the Day: October 8, 2007

Kudos to all those who participated in this week’s Photoassignment.net challenge - architecture. The group included Cheapshooter Flickr Group user mzieglertx, who joined in with a cool shot from Tacoma. Catch the slideshow below:

This week’s assignment? Framing.
The idea is to use natural or set up frames to set off the [...]

The CliffNotes Guide to Knowing Your Rights as a Photographer

One of the assignments I hate most is man-on-the-street photography. This is a catch-all assignment: go out there and find a story, damnit, or don’t come back. It always turns into me awkwardly stalking some interesting-looking person with a long lens and a notebook, constantly checking over my shoulder to see if I’m [...]

The Benefits of a Digital Camera Card Reader

Sorry about the lack of an update yesterday - my schedule has gotten crazy in the past few weeks, and I’m trying to find time to write. Daily updates should continue as usual soon as things calm down again.
Something astounded me today: I didn’t realize there are people who aren’t using digital camera card [...]

4 of the Strangest (and Coolest) Camera Lenses You’ll See

Feel like you’re not attracting enough attention when you’re out shooting photos? Want people to stop and stare? You’re in the right place.
The kit lenses that come with digital SLRs today may be capable of taking cool pictures, but they aren’t all that cool in and of themselves. I mean, let’s face [...]

Nine Easy Ways to Improve Your Portrait Photography (and they don’t cost a dime…)

Note: It’s a travel day for me today, so enjoy this post from the archives on portrait photography - one of the first articles that made it on the Cheapshooter site.

What is the most photographed subject in the world? People. Everyone is a portrait photographer, from the budding amateur with the point-and-shoot digital camera [...]