Photoshop is an extremely powerful tool for editing images. In fact, its so rich in features that many of the most used features are oftentimes behind a handful of clicks and adjustments. One solution to streamlining your workflow is to create keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop so that you can easily apply your most used actions [...]
One of the problems whentrying to create the images we see in our head is that, in the real world, the constituent parts can be very difficult to get together in front of your camera all at the same time. This is where compositing steps in. Sometimes, you just have no choice, and you may [...]
We’ve featured a few DIY Beauty Dishes in the past, from the very cheap to the super cheap, but few of those builds would blend into aprofessional studio quite as well as this one. In this video, French photographer, Antony Gomes, and the team atShootr show us how they built theirs. Starting with an Ikea [...]
Finding geometric shapes to photograph is a great exercise for beginners. It helps train your eye to look for something specific.
A quadrangle (also known commonly as a square, of course) is easily found in many places. Look around you, how many do you see in your room?
Here are some images of squares – either cropped into the square format, or subjects the represent the shape – as interpreted by a few different photographers:
One would think that with a surname like “Click”, a personmightbe more sympathetic toward photographers, especially when that person is also Assistant Professor of Mass Media at the University of Missouri. Some of you will remember the story from November last year,of Dr. MelissaClick’stussle with journalistsattempting to interview and photograph students during a proteston the [...]
I took this photo as part of a lighting class in Costa Rica. The theme was people who represent the spirit of the farm where the class was held.It was a colonial building hidden in the country side of Costa Rica. While we were fortunate to have a great model, I used a few simple [...]
New York based American artist, Tauba Auerbachhas created a three volume set of hardback books, as 8x8x8 inch cubes,in a project entitled the “RGB Colorspace Atlas“. Each volumecontains 3632 pages, and represents a look through the colour scheme of each of the three different colour channels; Red, Green and Blue. While it must’ve been a [...]
I write this annual articleto help photographers with one of the toughest parts of their job, pricing their work. Inthe 2016 version, Im going to add some new elements such as a little advise for photography buyers (found after the state of the industry). Another sectionIm most excited about is the question and answer portion [...]
Smartphone photography might seem straightforward. But the truth of the matter is there are plenty of people out there who could benefit from learning at least the basics involved in capturing quality images with a smartphone. Here to break down those basics is MacRumors in a four minute video aptly titled, How to take Better [...]
