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Have you ever wanted to create a photo of someone suspended in air? Well, this simple to replicate tutorial is probably what you’ve been waiting for. Just to spice things up a bit here’s a Star Wars perspective on levitation photography: Here’s what you’ll need. A Jedi knight. An enthusiastic Jedi knight can’t be that difficult to […]
You might think of neutral density filters as dinosaurs in the world of high dynamic range cameras and photo editing tools like Photoshop and Lightroom. But for purists looking to capture a higher dynamic range in-camera— or for those who don’t like to spend a lot of time processing their images—the graduated ND filter is […]
A wonderland of snow and frost looks beautiful to the human eye, but capturing a winter scene on camera requires some background knowledge and skill. Bright white landscapes tend to confuse a camera’s automatic features, so you’ll need to take the settings into your own hands. This winter photography cheat sheet shows you what to […]
Every photographer dreams up their own way of tackling issues revolving around their medium of choice. One of the most common issues that amateurs and professionals alike face behind the camera is determining what aspects of an image to cast in focus or out of focus. You’ve probably already developed a technique to adjust your depth […]
Getting back details from blown out highlights is something that we photographers battle with sometimes. The technique is often an exercise of trial and error. But photographer Blake Rudis explains one method he uses to successfully fix blown out skies: Ensure that the swatch colors are set to default. Create a new layer and fill it […]
Have you been noticing that the portraits you shoot in the shade just don’t look quite right? Maybe part of the image looks like the right color temperature, but other parts look too cool? If so, you’re probably noticing how using a flash in the shade can result in color temperature mismatches in your portraits, […]
Photography is embedded in our lives, from birth to death and at every stage in between. Even those of us with little interest in photography have probably carried photographs in our wallets, hung them on our walls or placed them on a work desk, and we’ve all snapped a few shots. Since the advent of […]
Using a tilt-shift lens is useful for product photography, because it allows you to keep multiple items in focus in your shot. Tilt-shift lenses can also create a miniature effect by blurring a large portion of the image, essentially creating a macro illusion with a very shallow depth of field. The shift function can be used […]
Have you ever considered just how far photography has come in only a matter of decades? Here’s a blast of the past from the days of yesteryear, courtesy of the US Navy: Starting with the invention of the camera obscura, this educational film dating back to 1948 details the early history of the camera as […]
Believe it or not, the art of photography is firmly planted in mathematics. Since the dawn of civilization, people have been fascinated by quantifying and adding structure to the universe; innately, we have a desire to use logic and formulas to understand our surroundings. Just as human beings are attracted to symmetry in facial features and […]
