beyondmegapixels.com started to publish a series of articles on tip to improving your photography skills,the series is called:"100 steps to IYP".

This series covers a lot of topics,from insect photography and flower photography to still lige photography.

Here is a link to the still life photography,it has great examples too.

click here.

I Must Say That the first time I saw Jeff's wedding photography work was on a DVD about words best wedding photographers-Masters of wedding photography.I'm not sure that DVD still sells,but if you are into wedding photography and photography at all,its a must see DVD,so you should look for it!In that DVD Jeff was shooting with 4 Leica cameras and some extremely fast lens like 50 f/1.0 and some other amazing lens (that cost some fortune...).I must say that when I saw Jeff video and his way of photography I really wanted to shoot some film into my wedding photography and I loved the unique film results,so I fixed my old Pentax Spotmatic and got some Holga plastic cameras and I'm thinking about giving a try to some russian cameras like Mir or Fed,to see how they bring their glass into action,But lets get back to Jeff...

Tips for photographing tonight’s full moon

 posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor

If  skies are clear, you’ll be able to see a nearly full moon rise above the horizon the east-southeast horizon tonight shortly after sunset. About 99 percent of the moon’s face will be illuminated. It will seem full to an unaided eye.

We turned to Michael Bakich, a senior editor of astronomy.com, for tips on how to photograph the moon, which will be rising above the local mountains. Bakich says:

1. Equip your camera with a 300mm, or larger, lens so that the moon doesn’t merely look like a dot in the sky.

2. Bracket your exposures, setting it at everything from 1,000th of a second to a quarter-second.

3. Take most of your photo when the moon is rising during the period of twilight; it will allow you to capture the greatest amount of contrast on the lunar surface.

4. Use PhotoShop or some other photo processing software to adjust the contrast and color balance to bring out as much detail as you can.

How to Choose Studio Lighting

by Garry Edwards

However amazing the vision of a photographer may be, however sharp their lens and regardless of the number of pixels on their camera’s sensor, the shot can only succeed if the lighting is right. It follows that we should commit both thought and budget to our lighting equipment. Studio photographers know this and typically spend far more on lighting than on cameras and lenses, but some people take the opposite approach and although they’re often prepared to spend far more than they need to on cameras and lenses, they sometimes underrate the importance of light and try to economize on the equipment that will actually make a real difference to the quality of their work.

I’ve written this article to help people who are about to make their first lighting decisions, or who want to make buying decisions that will help move their photography to the next level. In the first half of this article, I’ll discuss the three basic lighting choices you’ll want to consider. In the second half, I’ll help you determine how much power you’ll need for your lighting kit, depending on the type of photography you will be doing.