Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Smartphones are great, whether you’re grabbing quick snapshots of the kids smearing icing on themselves, making a low-budget film (they’re surprisingly good, actually), or immortalizing your visage in a selfie. But, without interchangeable lenses, one area where they lack is in focal control. Having this power over your technology is important for things like macro [...]

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Feet are an important part of our human body. They take us where we want to go. They hold us upright. They can be all different sizes and styles, decorated or plain, even covered in fur (think pets). But they are often overlooked in photographs or even cropped off.

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We’ve been sharing with yousome of theincredibleresults photographers are getting with Lightroom’s new dehaze feature. But,those who sprung for the Lightroom 6 proprietary version have been disappointed that Adobe left them out of theupdated feature. (Adobe, thou maladjusted schoolchild!) Fortunately, those without the Creative Cloud version of Lightroom can now rejoice! Thanks to the fine [...]

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This week for an image collection I bring to you – FEET!

What can you tell about the person, their life, and their emotions by looking at their feet? What do these feet tell you?

If the eyes are the windows to the soul – what do the feet tell us?

Tiny Feet by Lisa Holloway on 500px

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If you are looking for some good night photography dates, be aware that the nights between the August 12th and August 14th will be the best for shooting the Perseids shower. Tomer Razabi sent us a quick notice that thePerseids shower will reach its peak at the 12th-14thand it should be a delight for photographers [...]

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Have you ever wondered how us, regular people would look in a High End fashion shoot or on the cover of Vogue? French stylist Nathalie Croquet and photographer Daniel Schweizer collaborated on SPOOF, a project to answer just this question. Nathalie aims to poke some holes at our modern trained brains wholook atfashion and advertising [...]

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Earlier this week theBrighton and Hove Pride parade was stopped due to a suspiciouspackage. You can understand the authorities for wanting to protect the 160,000 attendees and watches of the parade. At first it was suspected that a suspicious looking object was left in the parade route intentionally to disrupt it,and a bomb disposal unit [...]

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Why are kids so seemingly magical to adults? What is it about those young, wild, expressions in photographs that makes us love them so much? It’s their honesty and unwavering outlook on life.

Kids show their emotions freely, and share their feelings with genuine truthful expressions that we love to see. Whether they are excited or frustrated, they are always being honest and letting their personalities shine as they push their limits of learning in any new experience.

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Time lapse videos are incredible beasts, especially when coupled with dynamic angles and camera movement. However, purchasing a motion control rig for creating time lapse movies is not always ineveryone’s budget. But creating one typically is! In this detailed and uber-awesome tutorial, the geniuses at Make show us how to builda self-contained, motorized platform for [...]

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This week on PUTV, Corey has a tip on texture mapping in Photoshop. Pete gives a refresher course on using brushes and how helpful to your workflow they can be.

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