When you shoot photos of interiors, you may want to add photos to TV screens or other displays in the room. In this video, photographer Tony Roslund shares his technique that will help you make such composites look realistic and as if they were created in camera. Tony gives an excellent example of his compositing […]
(In the World of Photography, there are many stories, some told tongue-in-cheek. This is one of them. There is a lesson at the end. Enjoy.) Hello. I am a professional photographer and I am returning my Good Camera today. You know, the one that takes the Good Pictures. Yeah, its going back. I saved my […]
Can you think of the ideal camera flash which can fit in your pocket, has almost 3-times output or regular speedlights, and also features a modeling light? The Godox AD200 is one such pocket flash (not if you are wearing skinny fit... more
My wife can be very unkind about my photography. Shell often flick through my edits and ask me where the good shots are… I dont think she has cottoned on to the fact that us creative types are deeply sensitive.
She said to me recently:
Wouldn’t it be amazing to show people how many bad shots you take before you get any good ones?
She is most obviously not a photographer…
But then I started to think about how much time we photographers... more
April’s fools is a day of fun but also a day of caution for anyone getting near the internet. If you look at some of the past jokes, you’ll see that some of them came true. (Heck, DIYP once got the world to believe that we own the term Bokeh.) If you are not sure […]
If you are in the video creative world, RDE is now starting a competition where there is $1,000,000 of prizes up for grabs for making a killer short. If this does not get your creativity going, I don’t know what will. Competition rules are simple: shoot a short of maximumofthreeminutes, a BTS movie, and enter […]
You may remember that a little while back I wrote a first look at the Moment lenses(these: Moment lenses) and I was pretty impressed with the build quality. The image quality was pretty good too. One of my concerns, though, was that they are pretty large and heavy compared to other lens systems that Ive […]
You can market your photography business in hundreds of different ways some incredible effective, and some a total waste of your time. Here are four marketing mistakes or wrong ways to promote your photography business and what you should be doing instead.
Mistake #1 – Youre Too Professional
By no means does this mean you should act or present yourself unprofessionally in your photography business but often we hide behind a front of professionalism. If being a... more
When it comes to retouching portraits there are a number of mistakes that I see photographers make over and over. Part of the problem is that there are too many poorly made skin smoothing plugins. Another is that Photoshop gives you too many options for portrait retouching. There is a simple solution for this which Ill mention at the end of the article.
In the meantime, lets look at the most common portrait retouching mistakes photographers make so you can avoid them. Dont feel too bad... more
We’ve seen quite a bit of film being discontinued in the last years. Some Velvia and Provia,Agfa Vista, and many others. Wereported that some Fuji Acros was going to go away back on October 07, and completelyforgot about it. But it seems that the time has come, and the Casual Photophilereports that communication was sent […]
