Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Last time we featured Vincent Laforets work he had just finished photographing his AIR project in London and Barcelona and was preparing to shoot above Paris, Berlin and Venice. Now that he has completed the project and released a book containing high-altitude aerial night-time photos from 10 iconic cities, Leo Laporte of The New Screen [...]

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Recently I was privileged, for the first-time, to be a walk leader as part of the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk. It was a great experience for me, one I plan to repeat again, and one in which I encourage all photographers of every skill level to participate. While a photowalk is something you may choose to do by yourself, I recommend taking some friends along with you. German photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995)... more

Dear friend, life is brutally short; live a life of leisure. I dont mean to say suddenly quit your job, but to enjoy every moment as if it were your last. Imagine you are stranded in a desert and you are dying from thirst. You see a stream of water, but it will only flow [...]

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How do you go about shootinga portrait of a woman trapped in ice? Of course Icould not actually sink a model under a frozen lake, so we took a short cut. I shot my model in a kiddie pool and applied an ice texture from the Image Manipulation Store. Hit the jump to see the [...]

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The internet has quite a bit of reportsthat the Rokinon/Samyang/Walimex MFT Fisheye has some issues with its focus scale. The reports range from the annoying”Infinity is at the 0.5ft mark” all the way up to “not focusing to infinity at all“. My lens had the latter issue. That’s why I started to look around the [...]

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If you’ve usedPhotoshop, you are likely aware by now that there are many ways to accomplish the same tasks. One of the more important ones that should be done to almost every digital image is sharpening. This is necessary because most digital camera sensors make use of an anti-aliasing filter, which very slightly blurs the image, to reduce the chances of moire occurring in the image. This slight blurring, generally only one pixel in size, causes a slight loss of detail in an image. To... more

French photographerFrederic Amadu recently shot a series starringMarvel Universe’sDark Phoenix (oh, make a movie already!!). The DarkPhoenix ( or Jean Grey) has elemental control over fire. So fire was a main part of the shoot. Easier said than done. Frederic had to hack A Broncolor MoveL unit twice. A Different hack for each shot. Shooting [...]

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There are two main aspects to consider when beginning to attempt any variety equine photography, the photographic side (technical and creative) and the dealing with horses side (sometimes unpredictable and dangerous).

Lets start with theanimal side,in this beginner’s guide to photographing horses.

I am not a horse person, but I have photographed a lot of them, and have spent a fair bit of time around them, their owners, and trainers, who have all... more

I recently had to do some rough photo adjustments on a computer that only had an older version of Lighroom installed on it (Lightroom 3). WOW – I had no idea how much I rely on some of the pretty fundamental tools available in Lightroom CC that were either not available or were not that [...]

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Thinking of upgrading to a newer camera but don’t want to spend a fortune? Here are two videos that will give you some options for both DSLR and Mirrorless in the under $1000 USD price range.

Best Mirrorless Camera Under $1000

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