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Portrait Techniques with a Limited Color Palette

Portrait Techniques with a Limited Color Palette

Creativity has no bounds, and as a portrait photographer, you’re not limited by the size of your studio or by the number of colorful backdrops and accessories you own. In this video, Gavin Hoey from Adorama demonstrates how you can create portraits that really pop just by using a limited color palette. He also demonstrates […]

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6 Tricks to Step Up Your Food Photography

6 Tricks to Step Up Your Food Photography

Restaurants depend on beautiful images of their food to draw in customers. This is one of the reasons why food photography is hugely popular in the industry. Food and travel photographer Skyler Burt presents six effective food photography tricks to satisfy hungry eyes: 1. Fix Tilted Glasses Sometimes you might notice that a drinking glass […]

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How to Edit Eyes in Photoshop

How to Edit Eyes in Photoshop

It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. In photography, the eyes are the key to great portraits. If the eyes are soft or out of focus the image is unusable. Glyn Dewis shares his simple technique to enhance the eyes in your portrait photography and ensure they’re tack sharp: 1. Making the Selection Use […]

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Enhancing Night Cityscape Photography in Aurora HDR

Enhancing Night Cityscape Photography in Aurora HDR

Night time cityscapes can look amazing, especially when they are done in HDR. In this article we’re going to look at how Aurora HDR is now up to 2x and 4x faster on MacOS and Windows computers, respectively, and is now compatible with the brand-new Loupedeck+ photo editing console.” Aurora HDR can take your cityscapes […]

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Are Smartphones Killing Photography?

Are Smartphones Killing Photography?

There were times when photography wasn’t easily accessible to the general public. With the advancements in mobile technology, though, everybody has a camera in their pocket. Almost everyone is a “photographer.” Renowned film director and photographer Wim Wenders shares his thoughts on why he thinks photography is dead—and that mobile phones are to blame: “I […]

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5 Simple Black & White Cityscape Photo Tips

5 Simple Black & White Cityscape Photo Tips

It’s easy to romanticize black and white photography. After all, it often has a clean, classical, and dramatic look that people are naturally drawn to. But getting a great black and white is deceptively difficult and requires the photographer to think about the world a little differently, as photographer Aaron Nace demonstrates: Put simply, color plays a […]

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Aurora HDR Software

Aurora HDR Software

Aurora HDR has Skylum’s new AI-powered Quantum HDR Engine with new tone mapping technology to create the most realistic, immersive high dynamic range photographs possible. Found here: Aurora HDR Bellevue, WA – September 12, 2018 — Skylum Software is excited to open pre-orders for the fourth major version of its award-winning HDR program Aurora HDR […]

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Tips for Compelling Lifestyle Product Photography

Tips for Compelling Lifestyle Product Photography

Product manufacturers invest a lot in marketing, and photography is one of the best ways to sell their products. While lifestyle product photography has been prevalent for a long period of time, it has become even more important with the advent of digital marketing. Manufacturers want to portray their products being used and are willing […]

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Wedding Photography Guide to Equipment, Shooting, Editing & More

Wedding Photography Guide to Equipment, Shooting, Editing & More

If you’ve ever entertained the thought of being a wedding photographer, or you already took the leap and it’s not quite going the way you hoped, then you may want to take a look at this new eBook just released. Found here: The Wedding Photography Guide The author, Lily Sawyer, taught for six years in higher […]

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Photographing Africa from a Flying Lawn Chair

Photographing Africa from a Flying Lawn Chair

What seems normal for a local person can be viewed in a totally different way by an outsider. American photographer George Steinmetz. an outsider to Africa, photographed the continent in an unusual way: from the air using a motorized paraglider. Steinmetz shares his experience in the following TED Talk: While he was on a yearlong hitchhiking […]

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