Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Bokeh overlays are an excellent way to add a trendy stylized look to your portraits. You can purchase overlays, but I would instead suggest making your own. It’s easy, fun, and best of all, it’s free!

In this video, I take you through the process of making and applying a bokeh overlay to a portrait using Photoshop. You will also learn to how to color tone your image to create a stylized look.

How to Make Your Own Bokeh Overlays

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Billboards are often ignored. You can walk past a hundred of them in a day and not remember what a single one of them was promoting. We just kind of tune them out. This one in France, however, is a little difficult to ignore. Especially if you’re crossing the street when you’re not paying attention. […]

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I did a 30 seconds edit of that picture at the airport in Albuquerque and posted it right away on instagram. And it went bananas. I had mixed feeling about this because this is not our work, this is not what I want to be known for. And all of these comments about Star Wars […]

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Last week, as I walked from Liverpool street station to meet some friends, I idly started to muse Where is photography going? As a medium, photography has enjoyed a remarkable trajectory, from heliographs to hypo, roll film and Brownies, colour film and instant cameras, and SLR to digital in under 200 years. And the last […]

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Reflective surfaces can be difficult to photograph – a “challenge” even! Here are a few examples of images of reflections to get you started.

By Theophilos Papadopoulos

Weekly Photography Challenge – Reflections

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Have you already been to India and photographed Taj Mahal and other famous monuments? If you havent, from now on you may need a license to do it. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is changing their photography policy, and they will soon require photographers to be licensed if they want to operate commercially in […]

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After Olympus and Ricoh, its Nikons turn to introduce their latest rugged compact camera. Other than being resistant to water, shock, low temperatures, dust, and sand, it also features 4K UHD videos. So, if youre a loyal Nikon shooter looking for a tough camera, have a look. The Nikon Coolpix W300 is equipped with a […]

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Since I’ve started to develop Black & White film myself, I haven’t been experiencing much with developers and techniques but that’s changing today! We are going to look at how a developer, dilution and developing time can affect the look of a negative. If you prefer to skip the reading and see me in action, […]

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Mirrors are not the only things that can provide a good reflection. Look around and see what other things can provide a good mirror image.

These 23 images are great examples of how to photograph a reflective surface and reflections creatively. Enjoy.

By Jacob Surland

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When a photographer decides to use flash, it typically starts somethinglike this. Photographer posts online asking which flash to buy, gets a lot of responses, and buys a flash of some sort. They go and shoot with it, and are then disappointed with the look of hard light. So, the next logical step is to […]

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