Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Hey gang – just a quick update for what’s new and going on at the upcoming Photoshop World 2016 Conference in Las Vegas this summer, July 19-21, 2016:

(1) CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Photoshop World Guru Awards
This is a photo/image competition just for people who attend the conference (so your odds of winning in a category are pretty decent), and there are categories for everything from illustration to retouching to compositing, and entry is free to... more

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera; they are made with the eye, heart and head. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

My photography training took place back in the early 90s, at an intense technical photo school in California. I love tech in all forms, and I love reading my camera manual. I love the precision and procedure of processing my own colour... more

While out shooting a wonderful tutorial on how to capture and process seascape photography, Hawaiian photographer Raiatea Arcuri had a bit of a spill when a rogue wave took out him and his tripod. The twenty minute tutorial is wonderful in-and-of-itself, but what has the world gawking is Arcuris spill at around the 5-minute mark. [...]

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Whether youre just getting into the game or are a seasoned veteran wanting to make a bit more cash from your photography business, one of the most challenging aspects is figuring out how much to charge. You dont want to undervalue your own worth and time, but you also dont want to charge so high [...]

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Modular cube like cameras seem to be becoming arather popular form factor lately. Joining Sony’s UMC-S3Cand Blackmagic’s Micro Cinema Camera, Canon have announced thenew ME200S-SH. While offering similar specs to their C100 Mark II camera, including a full frame 35mm sized sensor, the ME200S-SH strips out many featuressuchas theLCD, viewfinder, andmemorycard slot, in orderto save [...]

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There is a little wanderlust in all of us. Everyone, at some point in their lives, wants to travel the world and experience all itsbeauty for themselves. Travel opens the mind to many different possibilities, and makes us more tolerant and conscious as humans. What might be simple, normal, and mundane to some, might be unique, challenging and exciting to another. In the words of Gustave Flaubert, “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny space you occupy in the world.”... more

This is one of those topics that can become extremely complicated very quickly, but if you have a love of macro photography and a passion for electronics, this could be just the project to get you fired up. Using a process called “Reflectance Transformation Imaging” (RTI),whereby light is studied hitting the surface of an object [...]

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Wildlife and their habitat are facing a new threatfrom unethical practices deployed by a new breed of nature photographers. An exponential surge in the popularity of nature photography is unknowingly altering species behaviour and creating habitat disturbances. Take the following instances. At the beginning of this year, a video in which a tiger was seen [...]

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Watch and learnas fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski takes us on a journey from concept to completion of a photo shoot on the streets of New York City. While the video does buildonthe foundation of a magazine shoot, almost all of the tips and suggestions mentioned can apply to pretty much any session you might shoot, [...]

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Like many photographers, Im a connoisseur of old, analogue cameras. Sure, many of them dont work and others cant be shot due to the film stock no longer being produced, but there are a dozen or so that I continually cycle through when I go on a random film spree. Something I havent yet done [...]

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