One Airbnb Listing Critique and How I would Re-shoot it and Improve It
How to improve your listing images, choose top 5 and the cover image.
All the content on this blog is written and photographed by Alla Ponomareva
- 5 min
How to Avoid Blurry Images
Did you know: Pictures are one of the top 3 reasons Airbnb guests choose to book, alongside location and price. Airbnb As a guest, do you...
- 4 min
What to Wear to a Photography Session
Getting ready for a photoshoot can get quite stressful! The reason for a photo session can dictate the location – an engaged couple who...
- 5 min
Tips on How to Photograph a Family with an Infant
Don’t be intimidated when asked to photograph a family with a young one. Babies aren’t scary! They are cute, silly, and funny and you...
- 3 min
Photography 101: Observation and Planning
One of the greatest skills that I learned FROM photography, is the ability to see. What I mean by that is that before I got into this...
- 6 min
Give Your Photographs a Second Life with Print on Demand
All too commonly, we snap a photo, edit it, then it sits and sits and sits, taking up memory of our phones or hard drives. If the photo...
- 5 min
Crystal Ball Photography among Cherry Blossoms
Here is an effect that crystal ball has on other photographers: Last week, when I took my crystal ball out to play (after what seems like...
- 11 min
The Complete Guide to Posing in Your Travel Photos
Hey there fellow traveler! Let me begin this lengthy posing guide by prefacing that the way I pose in my travel photographs is my own...
- 2 min
How to Photograph Pets
I’m a dog person. I’m a photographer. I’m a dog person and a photographer or a photographer, then a dog person… The dilemma is real,...
- 3 min
Photography 101: Post-processing before and after
“What you see is not what you get!” There, I’ve said it. It’s a not-so-small mystery behind what we do as photographers. The product that...
- 5 min
5 most common composition rules
Hello there newbie photographer and welcome to yet another post of Photography 101, where I shine more light on what seems to be a simple...
- 2 min
Photography 101: a sunset minute by minute
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. -Aaron Rose If you look into improving your photography, there is no...
- 3 min
Learn about photography by visiting a museum
Undoubtedly nothing is original anymore, so don’t be afraid to Steal Like an Artist. Studying other artists and imitating them in your...
- 2 min
Photography 101: Multiple perspectives
It may not come as a surprise to anyone from this day or age that we’re living in an overly saturated world of travelers and image makers...
- 6 min
Project 33 – 33 selfies before my 33 Birthday
As a freelance photographer, I find doing photography projects very fulfilling and motivating. For example, there was the LOVE Project...
- 2 min
Photography 101: On motivation
“Everyone is a God damn photographer!” Or so it feels these days, doesn’t it. But owning a camera or a phone, doesn’t make you a good...
- 2 min
Photography 101: Lighting Setups in practice
I like shooting people. Wait, that sounds wrong. I love photographing people to death. Nope, let’s try again. I like it when people let...
- 3 min
An Easy Way to Edit your Pictures while Traveling
Traveling and clicking pictures to capture the lovely moments have always gone hand in hand for me. Now it’s a trend with everybody...
- 2 min
Photography 101: same place, different day/weather/season
Hello, dear photography enthusiast! You’ve come to the right place to discover a new skill, a new trick, or a new tip to add to your...
- 4 min
15 Photography Projects to inspire you to start yours!
With the start of the new year, most people naturally start planning the resolutions that they will undertake. As a photographer, those...
- 2 min
Creative photo trick – Prism Photography
What I love most about photography is not it’s ability to take an instantaneous selfie, or how easy it is to shoot in digital vs analogue...
- 4 min
Learn from my horribly awful photographs
Let’s play a game. I’ll show you some of my earlier photographs (or images of me) and you’ll try to guess what is wrong with them, either...
- 1 min
What to do with your old images?
Make a gif Step 1 – Locate your old images (flip through them so you know what your desired gif will look like) Step 2 – Search Google...
- 4 min
Learning from past photographic mistakes
After you’ve been practicing photography for a while, looking back at your earlier work may be kind of painful and cringe-worthy. You...
- 5 min
Top 10 photographs from 2016
Year 2016 was a year full of photographic accomplishments. Even though I’ve been heavily involved with this hobby for about 6 years, it’s...
- 1 min
Aerial Photography from West Coast USA to the East
Flying has never been my favorite activity, especially if it involves some long distance journeys I tend to make. This trip took me from...
- 2 min
FREE Photography Resources to grow your vision
For the past month I’ve been busy teaching my first photography course at a local university, here in South Korea. It has been a lot of...
- 3 min
7 photography projects worth supporting
Table of Contents CamBuddy Pro: World’s first do-it-all DSLR controller by Joobot Inc Viddy: The world’s cutest DIY pinhole camera by...