Photography Blogs & Tutorials

With all the recent hype and talk about the newest installation in the Star Wars movie empire (The Force Awakens), I thought this might be a fun project to do.

If you’ve followed along with the saga you know about lightsabers, the weapon of choice for the Jedi knights. Even if you aren’t a fan, you’ve likely heard of it, or had your kids or grandchildren request a toy version for themselves. So how fun... more

Curves are somewhat of apanacea when it comes to Photoshop adjustment layers. With curves you can do pretty much anything you can do with the other adjustment layers: contrast, color correction, applylooks… One could argue that you can virtually eliminate all other Photoshop features, as long as keep curves and masks. Of course, you would [...]

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Raise your hand if this scenario sounds familiar: you get a new camera, possibly as a gift, and immediately your mind leaps with excitement at all the photographic possibilities that await. You quickly start taking photos of everything around you; houseplants, food, pets, your kids, the trees in your yard, even mundane objects like cookware, or office trinkets. You justcan’t wait to get your new camera and kit lens off the shelf and shoot photos ofeverything.

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When the digital revolution came to photography it brought with it a plethora of advantages for photographers: making vast quantities of images with no increase in cost; seeing the photo immediately after you make it; changing ISO with each shot; and the advent of the digital darkroom; to name a few.

One of the most important benefits of digital photography is one that can be a little intimidating for new photographers – the histogram.But there’s no reason to shy away from... more

It looks like YouTube is getting extremely interested in up-and-coming video formats, including virtual reality (VR) and high dynamic range (HDR). During YouTubes keynote at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas, Chief Business Officer of YouTube, Robert Kyncl, announced the video platform is partnering up with GoPro to produce and share 360 [...]

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Nikon unveiled its newest flagship camera this week, the Nikon D5. Some of the new features include a brand new 153 point autofocus system and a ridiculously fast burst speeds of 12 frames per second14 if you dont mind shooting JPEG only. If youre wondering what 12 frames per second sounds like, YouTube channel DCFever [...]

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Nikon stole the action camera spotlight at CES 2016, but a company called ACTIVEON is looking to make a mark of their own with the Solar X, an action cam that can use solar panels to keep the battery running an extra four hours. Without the add-on solar panels, the Solar X is a 4K [...]

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Panoramic or ultra wide views of scenes are popular and work well for many different subjects.

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A lot of the time when we look at a well executed image we think about how it was lit. And a lot of times, the strobes and softboxes and other light modifiers photographers use have a huge impact on the final photo. But sometimes having a good natural light source and a good understanding [...]

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Sometimes using a format other than the standard proportions works better for an image. One of those times is shooting landscapes of sweeping wide vistas.

A great way to do that is to create a panoramic image. Here are a few photos that take advantage of that format to create stunning results.

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