Ilko Alexandroff is a surreal fashion and travel photographer, born in Bulgaria but now living in Japan. His experiments with light—silhouettes, bokeh, patterns—have led him to step out in the rain every so often for a few creative self portraits. It takes a lot of prep to keep all his gear dry, but the results are pretty […]
In a stunning example of creative portrait photography, Leo Rosas has shot a single model 11 times, using 11 different post-processing techniques to depict more than 160 years of photography. The video is less than two minutes, and worth a look: For those curious about what each type is and what years they’re replicating, here are the images with […]
Flipping through old photo albums, you can see how much you’ve changed since you were a kid. Sometimes people even recreate old photos to relive past memories. But few create fully blown composites from self-portraits taken in 2005 and 2015: That’s exactly what Arjun Hair, a 21-year-old photographer from British Columbia, did—he grabbed a silly photo of himself […]
Ever wished your photo editing could be more efficient? Here are two quick keyboard shortcuts to use in Adobe Lightroom, guaranteed to speed up your post-processing to check for problems in highlights and shadows: Hosted by Arizona-based wedding photographer Trevor Dayley, this quick video introduces two hot keys—J and backslash (\). Hitting the letter J highlights blown-out […]
Shooting with natural light can lead to beautiful landscapes and portraits, but controlling the sun is difficult—you need reflectors, the right positioning, and patience in case clouds change everything. Sometimes, you just need to overpower the sun—this video shows how: Cameras don’t have great dynamic range—they can’t keep everything perfectly exposed, even if it looks that way to us […]
Photoshop nerds, rejoice! Someone has created a Photoshop file that depicts, in real-time, how the edits you make are translated in Photoshop’s curve system. It’s difficult to explain, but this video shows it all: The video comes form Pratik Naik, who excitedly explains how the curve shows everything from multiple color properties to basic brightness/contrast adjustments. Casual photographers may […]
In what’s probably the best tourism video to be released this year, viewers can take a hyper-lapse ride through the streets of Istanbul, across the Bosphorus River and into the famous Sultan Ahmed Mosque—all in a rapid-fire two minutes. Check it out: The video was made by British media specialist Rob Whitworth, who’s made similarly […]
How can you make shadows disappear? There are a number of ways—curves, filters, brushes—but Glyn Dewis prefers a method called frequency separation that uses a combination of everything. Watch how he does it below: He cast the shadow of his model’s glasses with a cross-lighting rig, but he’s using Adobe Photoshop to get rid of it. It’s a fairly complex […]
Browse the display cases of any big-box electronics retailer and you’re bound to see one statistic prominently displayed on each camera model, right beneath the name: megapixels. Consumers have come to understand this as the be-all, end-all fact of a camera’s worth. But does it really matter? The short answer is no, megapixels do not matter. The longer answer […]
Photographers everywhere have embraced Adobe Lightroom as a godsend—a tool that saves countless hours, catering exactly to photographers’ needs in incredible detail. The problem is that most of those details are tucked away in unseen corners of the program. In the video below, Mark Wallace shows us five time-saving tricks for a more fluent editing experience: The last technique—a customized export […]
