Photography Blogs & Tutorials

I have to confess, it took me a while to get myself to do the exercise of actually sitting down and filtering through my old photos, to find those suitable to submit to a microstock agency to start selling. Finally, I did it, but boy how I wished I did it much earlier, back when I heard about microstock photography, the very first time.

But wait a minute, what’s microstock?

Unlike large stock photo agencies like Getty, microstock agencies are where photographers can license... more

I just know that many wedding photographerswill hit their heads and go “how come I did not think about his before” but it looks like this could be an emerging trend with wedding photographers. PhotographerMendel Mish of CJ Studios posted this cool short video on Facebook showing how a videographergets a super smooth shot of [...]

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Many times photographers think they are held back by lack of gear. However, having just one strobe and one softbox is more than you need to create so many looks and apply your photography to so many subjects. PhotographerTony Corbell uses a single light and a softbox to show ten different lighting setups and applications. [...]

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If you split an image into its most basic components, you can look at each pixel as the sum of the following info: Brightness Color Tone Saturation If we look at a black and white photo for example, one only element present in the photo is brightness.So any three-dimensionality is determined exclusively by the (relative) [...]

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When you start learning photoshop it is scary to see all those different tools you can choose from. It is often said there are seven ways to achieve the same results, using different tools in photoshop. So, it means you have to find the one that suits you perfect, in order to give to your pictures the look that you want.

In this article I want to show you how you can change colors in your pictures using Photoshop. This is a very easy method that you can use, either you are a beginner... more

The selfie is long past the point of just being a trend; it has become part of our daily routine with the type of selfie you take or the person you take it with being a status-symbol of sorts. Weve already seen (countless times) that people are willing to risk their lives for unusual selfies, [...]

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PhotographerAmanda Chapmanhas been giving Halloween the proper treatment since 2012. The project called 31 Days Of Halloween started when Amanda’s husband was diagnosed with Cancer and Amanda was looking to give something positive for the family to focus at. Her definition of “something positive to focus at” was31 Days Of Halloween – a month where [...]

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If an amazing light painting portrait has caught your eye sometime over the last few years, you’ve probably seen the work of Montral, based visual artist Eric Par. I first noticed Eric’s work when he released his LightSpin projectback in 2013 – featuringgroundbreaking and truly spectacular 360 degree bullet time light painting. Since then Eric [...]

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If your spouse has ever told you to put your camera down or that youre spending too much time taking photos, you might want to start taking the warning a bit more seriously. Apparently, as Mr Cai of Taipei recently found out, an obsession for photography can be grounds for a divorce. According to Apple [...]

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If youre a photo-fanatic, there is a lot to keep up with. New camera models are being announced way too often, firmware updates, fancy new lenses keep popping up, and on and on.

I didnt even mention software yet but now that I have, lets see whats new with our old pal Lightroom (LR) and its latest upgrade.

Since this is the default program that youre likely to find running on almost... more

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