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A Technique for Clean Sharpening in Photoshop

A Technique for Clean Sharpening in Photoshop

For landscape photographers, sharpening is a touchy subject. It has its benefits as well as its pitfalls. For example, sharpening without introducing black and or white edges around a subject can be a real challenge. In this video, Jimmy McIntyre demonstrates a workflow to sharpen your images without adding unsavory edges: When we sharpen our images we […]

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The Quintessential Tabletop Lighting Setup

The Quintessential Tabletop Lighting Setup

Sometimes the sterile surroundings of a studio aren’t best suited to show off a product or still life. Just as a colorful backdrop can completely transform the tone of a portrait, the surface on which a subject rests can make a significant difference. The tabletop is a texture just about everyone is familiar with and is a […]

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How to Create a Dust Correction Curve in Lightroom

How to Create a Dust Correction Curve in Lightroom

Getting amazing macro shots really comes down to the minute details, and many of these can be difficult to see with the naked eye. Dust, hair, lint…all of these can affect the final image if they’re not caught during post-processing. Luckily, there are a few presets you can create in Lightroom to find and remove […]

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Lighting Tricks with Old Film Cameras

Lighting Tricks with Old Film Cameras

With the heyday of film photography in the past, it’s easy to consider tossing your abandoned hand held cameras into the trash. However, as the Koldunov Brothers share, the following hack can put your old school point and shoot to use—without a roll of film: While the camera function of many point and shoots might be a […]

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Photography Backdrops on a Budget

Photography Backdrops on a Budget

Joe Edelman is a frugal photographer—though you wouldn’t know it by the quality of the images he produces. But with over 57,000 YouTube subscribers to date, he frequently shares tips, tricks, and do-it-yourself instructional videos aimed at cutting costs without cutting corners. In the following tutorial, Edelman goes into detail concerning his use of backdrops—a […]

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Chasing Light with the Official Photographer of Texas

Chasing Light with the Official Photographer of Texas

Wild. Crazy. Complex. A Renaissance man. The real deal. All of these words and phrases are often used to describe the official photographer for the state of Texas, Wyman Meinzer. At home among the wide open ranches and badlands, Meinzer has developed a profound connection with the wilderness—and he’s learned how to capture it with the […]

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Striking Timelapse Photography During Monsoon Season

Striking Timelapse Photography During Monsoon Season

Emmy award winning cinematographer Mike Olbinski has always been drawn to the power and peculiarity of nature. An Arizona native, he spends the majority of the year working as a portrait photographer in the dry desert heat. But, as the seasons begin to change and summer sets in, the weather can become quite erratic. Inspired by storms […]

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How to Direct a Photo Shoot

How to Direct a Photo Shoot

Learning the basics of camera functions and lighting fundamentals is a challenge in itself. Yet, the aspects that separate novice photographers from professionals have nothing to do with technical understanding. As Clinton Lubbe explains, having an open line of communication on a shoot allows for a photographer to have full control of their elements and often transforms […]

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How to Get Crushed Blacks and Replicate Worn Film with Photoshop

How to Get Crushed Blacks and Replicate Worn Film with Photoshop

Despite countless digital innovations and breakthroughs over the past few decades, film photography continues to hold a very special place in the hearts of photographers around the world. If you’ve ever looked at an enlarged film negative, you might begin to understand the allure and attraction the medium holds for many people. Though it’s hard […]

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How to Use Hyperfocal Distance for Landscape Photography

How to Use Hyperfocal Distance for Landscape Photography

Tired of adjusting the settings and positioning to minimize blur in your landscape photos? Hyperfocal distance is defined as the distance between a camera lens and the closest object that is in focus when the lens is focused at infinity. Koldunov Brothers made this video to demonstrate how to use hyperfocal distance to avoid doing […]

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