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How to Photograph Sequins & Sparkles in a Fashion Shoot

How to Photograph Sequins & Sparkles in a Fashion Shoot

Sequin fabric is great from a fashion perspective. However, shiny things make a photographer’s job very difficult. They bounce the light everywhere and create hot spots and sparkles that are hard to control. Photographer Gavin Hoey with Adorama has a solution for working with sequins: Hoey’s idea is to reflect light off of the shiny […]

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How to Add Light Rays to Your Photos in Photoshop

How to Add Light Rays to Your Photos in Photoshop

The power of Photoshop to transform an image is undeniable. In this video, Aaron Nace demonstrates a simple technique for adding sun rays to your images. Please note, this technique will only work if your image has the sun visible in it: How to Add Sun Rays with Photoshop Import the image into Photoshop and create a […]

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How to Capture Dramatic Portraits in a Plain Studio

How to Capture Dramatic Portraits in a Plain Studio

Don’t let a small working space hold you back and or stifle your creativity. There are plenty of photographers out there who are producing quality work in studios no bigger than a few feet by a few feet. In this video, Patrick from Fstoppers demonstrates how you can build a professional quality studio setup in […]

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Top 8 Questions a Second Shooter Should Ask: Wedding Photography Tips

Top 8 Questions a Second Shooter Should Ask: Wedding Photography Tips

As many of you know, I work alongside my wife Jasmine Star as her second shooter. Together, we’ve shot hundreds of weddings and transformed a pipedream into our dream business. It’s been an amazing experience working with her—not many people get to spend all day alongside their significant other and get paid to do so! […]

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10 Useful Tips for Landscape Photography Composition

10 Useful Tips for Landscape Photography Composition

Have you been looking for new ways to improve your landscape photography? Schubert Photography explains some helpful skills he utilizes for his landscape compositions. Make sure you pay attention to all ten! Although you may know some of them from previous tutorials or your own experience, there is always something new to learn from an […]

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Tips for Using Contrast in Photography

Tips for Using Contrast in Photography

Good photography depends far more on skill than it does gear. Good cameras don’t guarantee great photographs, and several professional photographers have been known to shoot with disposable cameras. The secret to great photography is rooted in having a solid understanding of the technical elements of photographs and how they interact with one another. Composition, […]

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5 Useful Photoshop Tools You Might Not Know About

5 Useful Photoshop Tools You Might Not Know About

Adobe Photoshop is undoubtedly the most popular and powerful photo editing software. It has so many tools in its arsenal that it might be virtually impossible to master it. No matter how experienced you are, there can still be features you don’t know about. In the following video, Blake Rudis with CreativeLive presents five hidden […]

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Luminosity & Contrast Landscape Photo Guide

Luminosity & Contrast Landscape Photo Guide

Everything in photography can be summarized using Luminosity & Contrast. And this new guide by professional landscape photographer Alister Benn will show you how to see it and master it. The second we open our eyes, we experience luminosity and contrast; Darkness turns to light, blurriness and diffusion reveal details, textures, depth, three dimensionality and […]

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Behavior and Background Tips for All Age Portraits

Behavior and Background Tips for All Age Portraits

Photographing people is always a challenge. If they’re children, you’ve got to get them to hold still and look at the camera. And no matter who you’re photographing, a great background adds to the photo. Photographer Denice Duff shares her pro tips on these two aspects in the following video: Be interesting As a photographer, […]

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Infrared Photography: 2 Ways To Modify Your DSLR

Infrared Photography: 2 Ways To Modify Your DSLR

Infrared photography is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful areas of photographic art, and there are many ways in which you can shoot IR frames. However, if you have a DSLR camera and you are not willing to invest in state of the art equipment designed especially for infrared photography, then you should know that […]

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