Photography Blogs & Tutorials

If there’s one thing that bugs me about shooting in studio, more than anything, it’s that you need to have tonnes of backgrounds, taking up loads of space. I’ve even gone as far as having a painter come in and create an interesting wall for me because I get bored with what I had. I’ve got over 15 backgrounds between paper, canvas, cloth, and even some vinyl castle doors.

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This video by Chris from Spoon Graphics does a good job of going over many of the options available inside Photoshop for cutting things out. The most common use is to cut out the subject from the background, to place it on a different image or background – as in when making composite images.

Watch as he goes over the options for cutting things out:

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As our data creation and acquisition requirements soar, so must the technology to store it all, and a team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of Washington have seem to have madea bit of a breakthrough. In a paper presented in April at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming [...]

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If you want to see action and motion, check out these 30 moving panning images.

Panning is the technique of moving your camera to match the direction and speed of an object that is moving in front of you, while shooting at a slow shutter speed. The result will blur the background, and make the subject relatively sharp. The trick is to get your speed and timing just right – it takes a bit of... more

Every year, dozens of astronomical events take place, makingperfect photo ops for astrophotographers. To help keep track of the events going on this year, we have for you an infographic that highlights 12 of the events that have already happened, and will happen, throughout 2016. Created by Space.com, the infographic covers everything from last months [...]

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Originally based on Florida, and drawn together by a common love of photography, Victoria Yore and Terrence Drysdale took their first trip together in June 2015 to Europe, and have been hooked ever since. Armed with little more than a couple of backpacks, some camera gear, and a one way ticket to Europe, the model [...]

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Cloudy days are great for shooting wide open shots with a naturally soft light. But, sometimes the scene can appear a bit dull due to the lack of contrast. One way of spicing up an image is to include light rays coming down from the clouds. In an ideal world, these would appear in-camera, but [...]

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Adding a feeling of motion to your images by using a slow shutter speed can be very effective. One technique to do that is panning, where you move the camera to match the subject and it blurs the background and keeps the subject relatively sharp.

You can pan just about anything that’s moving. Let’s see what these photographers found that they could pan:

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Stacking photographs made from a locked off tripod over a given duration is not a new technique, and has beencommonly used for creating star trail images where single super long exposures can be troublesome, but this application of the processis particularly interesting and beautiful. An extensionof timelapse photography, the Time Stack technique’s goal is to [...]

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Hint: sometimes it is the camera… Last Sunday morning, my son Isaac was sitting at our dining room table eating breakfast with a typical seven-year-old too cool for school hairdo going on. My wife though that it would make a cute portrait, so she grabbed the camera and snapped the above portrait. Nothing special, natural [...]

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