Photography Blogs & Tutorials

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We are DIYPhotography, but we love DIY solutions for moviemaking equally. After all, many of them can be applied to photography as well. Ryan Connolly from Film Riot gives you a list of top five (plus a bonus) DIY solutions for every filmmaker. They are cheap and simple, but dont let it fool you […]

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Diving into off-camera flash photography opens up a world of exciting, new and creative possibilities. Besides giving you the option to shape and control the light in your image with a flash unit, you can also use colored gels to modify the color of your scene to add either a subtle creative touch or a more dramatic impact.

A man playing electric guitar lit creatively by an off-camera flash colored blue.

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Much of the software that is available for bothMac & Windows is largely identical for both. If you can use it on one, you can use it on the other. This is certainly true of Adobe’s range of software, including Photoshop. Regardless of the platform, though, one of the biggest issues many photographers and other […]

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Most of us use different Photoshop blending modes to achieve different effects. Many tutorials suggest which more to use to achieve a certain look, but you have to admit they rarely state what exactly the blend mode does to the layers. This comprehensive and thorough video from Photoshop Training Channel explains them all! It […]

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We all have seen some very encouraging news recently coming from major film companies bringing back or releasing new film stocks. Some promising accessories, like the “Lab-Box Film Tank, have also emerged and it seems that nothing can stop the return of film at the front stage. The present and near future seem very promising […]

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Stock photo search engine Everypixel is a tool that should make the quest for perfect stock photos easier. But whats even more interesting is their tool called Everypixel Aesthetics. It uses neural networks to tell you how awesome your photo is. According to the developers, this tool sees the beauty of stock photos in the […]

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Do you remember VHS tapes? Can you call them back to your memory and compare the horrendous image quality with the crisp, super-sharp HD videos we have today? Well, they had HD back in the 90s as well. It wasnt common, but there were some solutions that offered HD recording on a VHS tape. This […]

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(hit play on this movie to see what this article is about, this is not a computer generated image, it’s all donein camera – see the final product here) As someone who deals with compositing on a daily basis, I foud myself in a restless state. And I don’t mean that restless state that all […]

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Once, the idea of rotating my canvas when retouching was jarring to me. I knew it was something my peers were doing but I just couldn’t be bothered to try it myself. After a few one on one lessons where I was “forced” to do it by David Neilands, I actually found a surprising improvement […]

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