To have a great photography blog, you need to have great and unusual photos.

Making a great photography blog is a lot like how to become a great photographer. Your photos need to be compelling. We provide some good tips below on taking good photos that will make your photography blog stand out from the crowd.

The first thing to do to make interesting photos for your photography blog is to change the perspective on your photos. The vast majority of pictures are taken at eye level. This makes sense for a lot of images, but you can really give your photo some life by taking a shot from above or below your subject. It also is worth a try to shoot your subject at ground level.

Another good trick to give you a good photo for your blog is to mess around with eye contact. Most pictures have the person looking at the camera. But you can also have the subject look off camera. This will make your audience wonder what she is looking at. It also can help to get the interest of the viewer to the edge of the picture. You also can have the subject look at something within the picture, such as at a mother with a baby, or a man looking at a steak he is about to eat. This will create a relationship between the subject and the other person or object and can make a striking photo for your blog.

Another way to make a great photo for your blog is to do different things with lighting. You can use side lighting to make a different mood. You can hide part of your subject’s face in shadow, which can make a great effect for your blog.

We also like to have our photo subjects get out of their comfort zone. If you are taking shots of CEO, you might try to do something unusual. Have the CEO jump around. Have the CEO jumping into his bed! Or if you are shooting a wild, adventurous type, have a picture of her in a corporate suit doing something incredibly dull, such as filling out a form or something. Sure it sounds strange but you could really get some amazing shots by having your subject do something that is unusual for him or her.

Also, we get great shots for our photography blog when we just start snapping away at the subject in motion. You should not stage every photo that you take. Sometimes the spontaneous photo is the best one.  This works great with child photos.

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Here is a feature comparison between the newly announced Pentax K-01 and Fujifilm X-Pro1. I’ve tried my best to ensure the accuracy of this table but if there is an error or a feature you think should be included in this table, let me know in the comment section. One of the things that is missing is whether the film simulation on the X-Pro1 can be used when shooting video. Cheers!

Pentax K-10 vs Fujifilm X-Pro1

Ugly? This was and still is the word used by some commentators to describe the new Pentax camera, the K-01. I won’t say it’s ugly though. Neither do I want to say it’s pretty. It’s Pentax. It’s just that. First thing first, it’s a K-mount camera, meaning all existing K-mount lenses are compatible with it. Which is a good thing, because users are not forced to buy into a new system altogether.

Pentax K-01 Black

Also announced together with the K-01 is a super thin lens — thinner than the thinnest Pancake — which is also compatible with all Pentax modern DSLRs. The hotshoe on the K-01 is also compatible with all Pentax flashguns, or designed-for-Pentax third party flashes, such as the Metz Mecablitz, I presume.

Slim… smc PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 XS Lens

Here are the key features of the K-01: Priced at US$749 (body only) or US$899 with the thin kit, durable machined aluminum frame in black, white, or yellow exterior; compatible all PENTAX K-mount lenses spanning decades, 16 megapixel APS-C sized CMOS image sensor with multiple aspect ratios, 3-inch LCD with 920,000 dots, full HD 1080p video capture at 30 FPS with h.264 compression (60 FPS at 720p), sensor-shift PENTAX Shake and Dust Reduction system which is compatible with every mounted PENTAX lens, 6 FPS burst mode, ISO 100-25600, focus peaking mode for fast and accurate manual focusing for critical focus applications. It also the first mirrorless to provide a native support of DSLR lenses.

Here are the things I hope to see but didn’t: an EVF, a full frame sensor, a tilt-swivel LCD screen, weather-sealing.

With the new Prime M processor, the K-01 sensor is said to be able to top the image quality of Pentax K-5, arguably one of the best-performing APS-C cameras, even in today’s standard.

Pentax K-01 Silver

Here are some words of the K-01 designer Marc Newson:

A hands-on preview of the K-01: