Photography Blogs & Tutorials

This is the story of Kenya’s LeagueOf Extravagant Grannies,who were once corporate and government leaders in the 1970s. They now live the retired high life travelling to exotic and remote areas within Africa to explore, party and enjoy in exclusivity. Wemanaged to catch up with 3 of them in Somalia soon after they landed. Little [...]

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I love Lightroom, and use it for the vast majority of my portrait editing. You can achieve a wide variety of portrait effects in Lightroom, from harsh and grungy, to soft and dreamy. My technique varies depending on the kind of portrait I’m editing, although the workflow remains consistent.

The photo I’ve selectedfor this exercise, is one you can easily replicate at home. It wasshot indoors, with a large window as the only light source, and is one of a series shot in the... more

In the ideal world, you have an infinite amount of time during photoshoots to tweak the lighting and camera settings until everything is absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, thats not the reality of it. Oftentimes were left with too little time in too small of a space and all we can do is try to get the [...]

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Recently, I received a very interesting question from a dPS reader about exposure. The question was, “How much does it matter about getting the exposure right when the photo is taken, as opposed to fixing it later in Lightroom?” It isa really interesting question, and it became even more interesting to me the more I thought about it.

Let’s start off by looking at the possibilities here. Therea few different ways you can approach... more