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Do you have an image that you would like to give the Hollywood treatment to, and really help make it pop? In this article, Ill be showing youa method that you can use to give your images the blockbuster treatment, and take them to the next level. The best part about it is that you dont have to be a Photoshop genius to do it!

The technique that well be exploring is referred to as color-grading. The term color-grading is generally reserved for motion pictureswhere the editors... more

One of the more interesting photo techniques used in sports and racing photography is panning. Not only does it provide context to the speed and motion involved, it also isolates the subject matter, making for an interesting composition. The concept seems simple, but as many years of shooting has taught me, its anything but. To [...]

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One of the biggest challenges for me when I first started taking photos was posing subjects. Coming from a more photojournalistic background, the idea of posing subjects for portraits wasnt something I was too keen on. It took a lot of time and work to not only learn how to post my subjects, but also [...]

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Earlier we looked at some artsy images of everyday objects – vegetables.

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PSB files are Adobe’s answer to the 2GB file size limit of PSD files, the standard Photoshop Document, andsomething whichmost photographers will likely never have to deal with, but the big issue that plagues them can also apply to large or complex PSD files, too. PSB files aresomething I only ever have to worry about [...]

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We are giving away our most awesomest Image Manipulation Store package yet: City Series: London The link is in the bottom but first some awesome news: New Backend We have completely revamped our backend. We were having issues with folks unable to download. Quite understandable considering that the IMS now serves over 180GB of goodies, [...]

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You know how sometimes you see a photo and just have to know how it was made. I mean not in the tutorial-follow-me kind of way but more in the who the heck did you make this kinda way? This is how I felt when I sawRichard Wakefield‘s Circus Doll photo. It had something feeling [...]

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Inspired by Edward Weston’s famous image of a pepper, comes this week’s image collection – veggies. Can a simple vegetable become art? You decide.

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Last weekElinchrom made two announcements: one was about a newEL Skyport+ trigger and one about starting to sell the Godox battery pack inverter. We find both announcements interesting. We caught up with Christopher Whittle, Elinchrom’s president at the Photography show and asked about those.See the interview above, and some of my thoughts after the jump. [...]

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If youve ever photographed newborns, youll know that one of the challenges is to properly capture the skin tones of the infant. This comes as a hurdle because many infants have an excess amount of red or blue in their skin depending on various health aspects. While the goal isnt to render their actual skin [...]

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