Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Dear friend, I wanted to write you this letter on photography and life. I just finished an epic week-long street photography workshop here in New Orleans, and it was an absolutely incredible experience. I had such a great time with the students, in terms of teaching, bringing people together, and sharing new experiences together. Small [...]

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Social media platforms seem to change their image sizes pretty much every time you login. And every time that happens, photographers everywhere have to scour the internet searching for the new sizes. You just know that facebook is going to CRASH your photo if you don’t feed it the exact right size. Well, here’s some [...]

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Photography, as an art form, is simply the capture of light on either a sensitive physical medium or, in more recent times, an electronic sensor.

What makes a photograph unique and attractive to the eyes is the distribution of that light. Shadows, highlights, and varying levels of warmth and tone evoke emotion when viewing them, emotionally investing youto the picture you’re viewing.

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Losing her mother to ovarian cancer and being in high risk of getting breast cancer herself, Aniela McGuinness had an appointment to schedule a preventative double mastectomy. Just three days earlier, however, she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. Rather than letting cancer get the best of her, Aniela fought back and used photography [...]

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In case you didn’t read last weeks post about PixelSquid, I thought I would entice you with a little composite I put together today. Everything is from PixelSquid except for the background. It is so easy to bring things in and manipulate them into place when you add the PixelSquid plug-in into Photoshop. Couple of things to know about the plug-in… anything that you check to add to Photoshop will load into the Windows>Extension>PixelSquid library and hold up to one hundred... more

In case you didn’t read last weeks post about PixelSquid, I thought I would entice you with a little composite I put together today. Everything is from PixelSquid except for the background. It is so easy to bring things in and manipulate them into place when you add the PixelSquid plug-in into Photoshop. Couple of things to know about the plug-in… anything that you check to add to Photoshop will load into the Windows>Extension>PixelSquid library and hold up to one hundred... more

Be vewwwy, vewwy quiet… I’m hunting wabbits! Show of hands: who remembers this phrase? You will,if you spent your childhood (okay, and eventually bits of your not-so-childhood too…) watching Looney Tunes’ “Bugs Bunny“. But did you know Elmer Fudd – famously known for trying to shoot Bugs Bunny – was originally only trying to shoot [...]

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Remember the massive outcry when Taylor Swifts terrible concert photography contracts were published? Apparently Janet Jackson doesnt, or she just really doesnt care. Earlier today PetaPixel were sent a copy of the contract photographers have to sign if they wish to take photos at Jacksons 2015 world tour, and it aint pretty. I have seen [...]

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A Norwegian couple visiting Thailands southern city of Krabi was out birdwatching and photographing when they got stuck in the mud. Luckily a local fisherman came to their rescue and helped them out, risking getting stuck himself, despite being able to easily make off with their expensive equipment. The fisherman asked for nothing in return, [...]

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As anticipated, Leica revealed a new minute ago their Leica SL Typ-601 system. This is a Mirrorless, 24 MP CMOS sensor camera withaMaestro II processor, thatcan go up to ISO 50,000. The camera also boasts a WiFi connection, a weather-sealed body and a new4.4MP EyeResEVF. The camera shoots an impressive 11 FPS and its video [...]

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