Photography Blogs & Tutorials

The goal of any photographer is to make each and every photo stand out from the crowd. Making an image that pops is something that we all strive to achieve, but it’s not always easy to do. Luckily, there are tools at our disposal in Adobe Lightroom that can go a long way to help us achieve an image that we can be proud of, and that catches the attention of the viewer. What are these tools? They are many and varied, but there are three central processing techniques that can make your... more

Ions ago (at least in technological terms) Google were out to change the world with their Google glass wearable tech. One of the most prominent objections to that tech was people being afraid of being spied upon. Google Glass now lies at the bottom of Google’s failed-projects cemetery. Sony is out to bring this concept [...]

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As someone who shoots on location a lot I’m often given a choice on what I like to call “popping” or “blending” a subject into a scene, in short this really as as simple as using your main light source to either complement the direction of a natural / embedded light source in a scene [...]

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If you live in a city now is your chance to get out and hunt for some run down, dilapidated, crumbling buildings that say urban decay to you.

By Thomas Hawk

Weekly Photography Challenge – Urban Decay

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Many photographers are fascinated with old things, the more decayed and falling apart the better. Urban decay and grunge is a popular subject for photographers in cities. Some go out of their way to find abandoned buildings and little known spots.

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By Wayne Stadler

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We all saw the big announcement a couple of weeks ago about Lytro’s new Cinema camera, but the folksover at No Film Schoolsat downto have a more in-depth discussion with Lytro’s Head of Light Field Video, John Karafin, and gotan exclusive look intosome of the features and abilities of the Lytro Cinema camera system. With [...]

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We might not possess the power to change the weather during a photoshoot, but we do have the power to change how the sky and surrounding environment looks with nothing more than a few tweaks to a camera’s settings. Here to explain just how to do thatis David Bergman. As part of Adorama TVs Two [...]

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Screw-on filters are designed to be a protective cover for the front element of your lens (in addition to any aesthetic alteration they provide). But just because theyre meant to take the brunt of an impact in the event you drop your lens doesnt mean its any less hurtful to watch them shatter to pieces. [...]

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One of the most challenging aspects of street photography is trying to capture the candidness of a particular scene. Even with a camera as small as a iPhone, holding it up to take a photo can ruin the moment youre trying to capture. Wouldnt it be great if you could somehow capture exactly the scene [...]

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I love birds. In fact, Ive dedicated much of my adult life to the study of birds. In college, I spent days exploring the beaches, forests, and wetlands surrounding southern Puget Sound, strictly in the interest of finding and watching birds. Birds lured me north to current home in Alaska, when I took a job banding songbirds in Denali National Park. My interest in migrant birds carried me into graduate school where I spent several years studying the spring migration in the Sierra de Los... more

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