Browsing all articles by Matt Dutile.

Communication – What Are You Saying?

Maintaining great client communications, whether with an editor, creative director, art buyer, family or newly engaged couple is paramount to continued success and growth as a working photographer. I say working photographer, because if you’re not communicating well with your clients and creating a unique brand experience in today’s competition filled digital world, you might [...]

Defining Your Visual Style

Perhaps the most important thing we will all do on our photographic journeys is finding and defining our own unique visual style. If you want to be a better photographer, it’s a journey you too must take. Visual style is what separates each of us from other photographers. It’s how we choose to look at [...]

Photo Trekking: A Traveling Photographer’s Guide to Capturing Moments Around the World [Book Review]

Perhaps one of the best features of the widespread availability of digital cameras is the ability to capture our vacations and trips across the globe. Never has it been easier to photograph and share with our friends and family the unique cultures, monuments, people and wonders of the world we find on our travels. And [...]

Develop an Attitude of Success

As equally important to success in photography as knowing your camera, equipment and light – and being a good marketer – is developing within yourself an attitude of success. It’s something that separates and elevates the photographers that are popularly admired today including Chase Jarvis, Jasmine Star and Joe McNally, to name a few. I [...]

Create Sketches to Capture with a Vision

Whether you classify yourself as a landscape, architectural, wildlife, portrait, wedding, commercial or other category of photographer, drawing out a few sketches can go a long way towards capturing photographs with a purpose. It’s all about honing a creative vision that can take your images from average to inspiring. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck [...]

Get Silly for Serious Lifestyle Images

If you’re interested in diving into the world of lifestyle and portrait photography, or a veteran stuck in a rut of bland photos, and want to bring out some great emotions from your subjects – it’s time to get silly for serious images. Chances are, unless you’re a natural born comedian or were from a [...]

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