They say, age has nothing to do with talent. This statement is well illustrated in our today’s collection. Below you can see the works of 15 teenage photographers. The photo screenshots are clickable and lead to photographers’ personal websites. If you look closer at the pictures of these young people, you’ll notice that each teen photographer has a unique style, which combines the creativity of a young aspiring soul and amazingly mature technique. Perhaps, it’s this wonderful mix that brought some of these young artists to awards and success on the Web, or maybe it’s just everything about talent…

One thing we noticed while preparing this post is that many teenage photographers, even those awarded by various organizations, such as The Digital Camera Young Photographer of the Year or RSPCA Young Photographer Awards, don’t have a personal photo portfolio, or even a public photo gallery on Flickr. This is definitely a loss, as photographers with no decent spot in the Internet considerably narrow their viewer audience. however, we are sure that once they come across ReadyPhotoSite , they’ll not be website-less anymore.

Mike Bailey Gates

Eleanor Hardwick

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Setting up a personal photo studio may be a challenging task today: professional gear is rather expensive and the selection of available devices and gadgets is so large and diverse that can confuse even an experienced photographer, not to mention a beginner. As a matter of fact, the entire history of mankind shows that material things have never been an ultimate barrier against human artistic aspiration. Quite the contrary - an artist that couldn’t afford canvas, brushes or colors, got nothing but to find another way to express his vision and this is how we believe new art directions and genres appeared.

In this post, however, we don’t suggest you to initiate a new artistic style just because you don’t have enough money to by a studio lighting kit (go on if you dare, though!). Instead, we offer you ten super accessible  photography Do-It-Yourself projects you might find useful. Of course, there are tons of websites entirely dedicated to DIY experience, but below you can see a selection of tips and techniques that are, in our opinion, the most interesting, effective and cheap in implementation.

If you have experience in constructing photography related things with your own hands, or know some life-hacks for photographers, don’t forget to share them in comments! Enjoy the round-up and join in the discussion!

Fast photo sensor

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We are glad to inform our ReadyPhotoSite photographers community that we have launched a new Ready Photo Site theme - Clear Vision- that you can preview and buy here.

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Using the resources of the modern Web you can easily learn any aspect of photography and grow from a budding amateur into a full-fledged professional. However, the amount of information floating in the Internet is enormous and one may easily get lost in numerous tutorials, guides and reviews. Besides, the technology evolves by leaps and bounds and several photographic gear products are being launched every month, not to mention an ever growing army of photo gadgets.

The cheat sheet format is really helpful when you need to get to know some specific photography issue or just need to refresh your memory on some question. Whether you are a beginner photographer or a seasoned pro, there will be moments when you need to quickly fill the gap in your knowledge - here is when a compact cheat sheet in your camera  bag will come in handy.

This post is a collection of 15 useful photography cheat sheets covering various industry related aspects including the usage of gear and photographic software.
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The importance of attractive and usable online portfolio has been repeatedly highlighted in our blog posts. The aspects of creating such a website are actually the guideline of our resource. Moreover, our goal is to give you some tips and advice on how to successfully maintain a professional photo website and make the most of it in terms of tough competition on the ever growing Web. With this to be said, today we present a handy round-up of online portfolio tutorials you can use while creating your own photography website or artistic gallery. The list consists of various kinds of articles, including exhaustive Photoshop tutorials and general tips on how to build an effective portfolio website.
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