When you’re getting started the challenge is overcoming the fear of taking pictures of strangers. Since telephoto lenses are not normally used in street photography, how can you stand a few feet from your subject, put the camera to your eye, focus, and click the shutter without getting nervous? A good street photographer is not […]
Public perception of any person with a camera in their hand in and around public landmarks, was forever changed as a result of September 11, 2001. It didn’t help that the paparazzi contributed to Princess Diana’s death. The hordes of paparazzi, through their dogged pursuit of their quarry, contributed to her untimely demise and in […]
There are various phases of sunrise and sunset, however each phase repeats itself twice a day – once during sunrise and once again at sunset. All phases during sunrise are the same for sunset phases – the only difference is chronological order i.e. when each phase begins and ends. Therefore, sunrise and sunset are exactly […]
In photo editing news, the Skylum team officially just released the Luminar Neo photo editor to all customers. Some readers have been asking how to get it so here is a quick rundown. You can find it here: Luminar Neo Official Release How can I download Luminar Neo? 1. Access your Skylum Account by clicking […]
A shot of a bird in flight has always been a challenge to photographers. Seeing a perfect print image only serves to make them eager to create the same result. Photographing a bird in flight presents one problem, but capturing that one special bird-in-flight shot that’s in focus and has good composition plus good light […]
We all have to start somewhere with our photography and one of the big questions I get asked by students is where do we begin. There is just so much to learn and not enough subjects to shoot. That may or may not be true. My answer is street photography. Why? Let’s read on. Street […]
To help with a street photo editing workflow, these presets are designed to help photographers instantly bring out the best attributes of their street photography with exposure adjustments, clarity, vibrance, saturation, split toning, highlights, shadows, sharpening, noise reduction, vignetting, graduated filter adjustments and much more. They are currently 67% off today if you want to […]
Learning how to begin taking photos at night is dependent on some very key photography practices. Taking photos in low light conditions, especially of the city, is a fantastic approach to get better in your shooting of long exposures. You must primarily learn how low light photography techniques work. Taking good photos at night requires […]
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