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How to Quickly Cull and Rate Your Photographs in Lightroom

How to Quickly Cull and Rate Your Photographs in Lightroom

This article is a general overview of the catalog organization lessons from the new Lightroom for Landscapes Program (currently 70% off) if you’d like to learn more on how to master the fantastic world of Lightroom. One of the most powerful, but commonly overlooked, features of Lightroom is the ability to quickly cull and rate […]

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Using S-Curves and Color Contrasts in Your Photography

Using S-Curves and Color Contrasts in Your Photography

This article is based on concepts from the Understanding Composition Guide which is currently 62% off if you want to dig deeper for further training. Most photographers have heard of the S curve, and this example photo is a literal example of the concept. Fun Fact The S curve did not originate with photography. It […]

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Color Contrast in Photography

Color Contrast in Photography

This article is based on concepts from The Photography Action Cards if you want to dig deeper for further training. Color contrast is a relatively straightforward tool of composition to master. Once you start looking for it, you will see it almost everywhere. This is especially true in nature, which has evolved to use color […]

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Black and White Photography: A Two-Skill Process

Black and White Photography: A Two-Skill Process

This article is based on concepts from the Better B&W Photography Guide which is currently on sale. There are two essential skills you must develop to become great at black and white photography. The first is learning to see—to identify—a great black and white subject. Some subjects demand to be rendered in color, and others […]

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Street Photography: Telling a Complete Story

Street Photography: Telling a Complete Story

While street photography can often seem like a stream of random and unrelated moments all jumbled together, the reality of the genre is the complete opposite of this. The magic of street photography is taking these moments and weaving them together to create a feeling, tell a story or show a place—and often all three […]

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Getting Organized as a Street Photographer

Getting Organized as a Street Photographer

I believe that editing is just as important of a skill in street photography as shooting is. We all capture a lot of junk out there, and editing is how you protect yourself from showing that junk. If you saw all my junk, you’d be able to see how terrible a photographer I actually am. […]

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The Photographer’s Secret Weapon: Creating Mood

The Photographer’s Secret Weapon: Creating Mood

A mood is created in a photograph when it allows the viewer to place themselves in the moment, or it causes them to remember a moment that stirs up an emotional reaction. It’s a complicated subject, but it’s imperative for photographers to understand how to express different moods in their images. Final reminder! Only hours […]

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5 Tips for Taking Travel Photos in Dangerous Countries

5 Tips for Taking Travel Photos in Dangerous Countries

On a recent trip I stumbled upon a slum along the riverbank of Iquitos, an isolated Peruvian city in the Amazon jungle, and walked down rickety wooden boardwalk with my old Canon T2i in hand—snapping shots of the decrepit homes, crumbling wooden stilts, tattered clothes drying in the humid air—until a local security guard walked […]

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Using Symmetry and Patterns to Create Stronger Photographs

Using Symmetry and Patterns to Create Stronger Photographs

This article is based on concepts from A Modern Approach to Photographic Composition which is currently 50% off if you want to dig deeper for further training. Patterns and symmetry surround us, and our brains are naturally programmed to look for them. But incorporating symmetry and patterns into photography can be intimidating. It’s important to […]

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How to Keep Your Street Photo Editing Simple

How to Keep Your Street Photo Editing Simple

The essence of street photography is all about real, unplanned, special moments—going out into the world to see what you can find and relate to and bringing these moments back to share. But too often, photographers take these special moments and edit them to death, trying to over-perfect them—and this just diminishes the spontaneous, special […]

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