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Tips for Shooting Celebrity Portraits in a Studio

Tips for Shooting Celebrity Portraits in a Studio

You don’t have to wait for a celebrity to walk into your studio to use these techniques, you can use them for photographing anyone. But they’re sure to give your subject the star treatment, no matter who you’re photographing. Miguel Quiles shares a few tips to get you started:  Choose a Good Portrait Lens Quiles […]

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Lightroom Mastery for Portraits

Lightroom Mastery for Portraits

Would you like to create absolutely beautiful edits of people and portraits in seconds instead of hours? This brand new online video course from professional photographer Mike Newton will teach you all the Lightroom secrets the pro’s use to retouch portraits and turn average shots into stunning creations. Found here: Lightroom Mastery for Portraits Editing photos […]

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12 Black & White Photos Taken With Pinhole Cameras

12 Black & White Photos Taken With Pinhole Cameras

A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole—effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. Check out these images taken with […]

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How to Nail Depth of Field for Portraits

How to Nail Depth of Field for Portraits

A shallow depth of field can breathe life into what would otherwise be a dull portrait. But dialing your aperture in just right in-studio can be a bit a tricky. To shorten your learning curve, freelance photographer Gavin Hoey shares his favorite tips and tricks for getting awesome shallow depth of field portraits: Shooting portraits with […]

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How to Show Dimension and Texture in Photography

How to Show Dimension and Texture in Photography

Lighting helps to transform a three dimensional experience into a two dimensional experience. A photographer’s goal is usually to mimic the three dimensional experience on a two dimensional platform. Light or the absence of it, in the form of shadows, achieves this goal. Jay P Morgan elaborates: Light helps you create depth and texture, two essential parameters […]

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How to Mix Ambient Light and Flash for Outdoor Urban Portraits

How to Mix Ambient Light and Flash for Outdoor Urban Portraits

Here’s is a quick tip for  mixing ambient light with flash to perfect backlit portraits. If you’re shooting with the sun staring right at your face from behind the model’s head, don’t fret. Simply follow these steps from photographer Manny Ortiz: To start off, Ortiz sets his ISO at 100 and dials in his aperture at […]

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14 Vivid Photos of Rainbows Around the World

14 Vivid Photos of Rainbows Around the World

A rainbow is a colorful light show! This phenomenon appears when light rays pass through water droplets suspended in the air. In order to see the rainbow, the sky must be clear and the sun must be behind you while you’re facing the rain. See this wonder of nature in the photos we found: They’re magical – but […]

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5 Photo Editing Steps to Make Your Images Pop in Lightroom

5 Photo Editing Steps to Make Your Images Pop in Lightroom

Getting your blog post or video noticed on social media isn’t always easy, and an a eye-catching photo as your featured image or video thumbnail can make all the difference. With that in mind, commercial fashion photographer Mark Wallace has created this simple five step tutorial that can make even drab, uninteresting photos catch a viewer’s […]

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How to Style Food Like a Pro Photographer

How to Style Food Like a Pro Photographer

Anyone who’s taken on the hurdle of photographing food can attest to the fact that it’s a deceptively hard task. Getting the perfect shot often takes a certain amount of finesse that doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Luckily, the folks at Mango Street Lab have put together this short tutorial on the  fundamentals of food photography: Understand the way […]

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Lightroom CC Essential Workflow for Photographers

Lightroom CC Essential Workflow for Photographers

Professional landscape photographer James Brandon recently surveyed his workshop attendees and 70% of them asked for more in-depth training specifically on Adobe Lightroom. So he spent the last 6 months working on this new in-depth course. Found here: Lightroom CC Essential Workflow Organizing Your Photos There’s a ton you can do in Lightroom to organize your photos […]

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