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How to Accent Hair in Photoshop

How to Accent Hair in Photoshop

Anyone can have a bad hair day, but did you know you can also have a bland hair day? Shine, color, dryness—there are plenty of aspects that can dull out your locks. To help overcome this common obstacle, photographer Aaron Nace demonstrates a few useful tips for Photoshop to make the hair in your images pop: Whether […]

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Non-Verbal Posing Cues for Photographers

Non-Verbal Posing Cues for Photographers

Posing your clients can be one of the biggest challenges a photographer faces. Not only do you have to learn how to pose your subjects but also how to direct them, while still making them feel comfortable. To help provide a few posing tips and tricks for your next photo shoot, Los Angeles based photographer Caroline […]

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Timelapse Photography of Earth from a Million Miles Away

Timelapse Photography of Earth from a Million Miles Away

On July 6, 2015 NASA released an image of the Earth as captured by the EPIC camera. Since then EPIC has captured thousands of images of our beloved blue planet. Three thousand of these images have now been compiled into a timelapse sequence like no other you’ve seen. It shows a year in the life […]

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Essential Lighting Tools and Modifiers that Every Portrait Photographer Should Have

Essential Lighting Tools and Modifiers that Every Portrait Photographer Should Have

Learning to effectively use speedlights can give you quite the advantage when you’re on the go and don’t have a lot of room for gear. They’re small, effective, and can attach to your camera or just about anything. With that in mind, photographer Kevin Kubota put together the following tutorial on how to light many different scenarios […]

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Composition Techniques With a Street Photographer at the Beach

Composition Techniques With a Street Photographer at the Beach

Working with the principles of composition as the foundation for your photos can save you a lot of time and energy in post-processing. If you’re shooting with film, you’ll save a lot of wasted photos. If you’re shooting in digital, you ‘ll save yourself the time and hassle of going through 20 photos of the […]

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Camera Settings for Interior Real Estate Photography

Camera Settings for Interior Real Estate Photography

Taking high quality pictures indoors presents a challenge, especially if you’re not experienced with lighting gear or just don’t have any at your disposal. With the right settings, though, you can take professional quality photos indoors by taking control of your camera settings. This infographic gets you started: According to KeyAGENT, these are the best […]

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How to Not Go Overboard With Photo Editing

How to Not Go Overboard With Photo Editing

In the age of digital photography, post-processing has become a vital aspect of the industry. Unfortunately, as much as it can help your photography, it can also hurt it. In fact, many images (even great ones) are ruined during the editing process by pushing the picture past its breaking point. To help keep your post-processing […]

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Outdoor Maternity Photography Lighting Techniques

Outdoor Maternity Photography Lighting Techniques

The sun is one of our most vital elements when shooting natural outdoor shots, but it doesn’t always cooperate. Sometimes our timing is off or the elements are just not working out, but either way there’s a great on-location work around which wedding photographer Pyre Jirsa explains in this video tutorial: As the video demonstrates, we need […]

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Types of Lenses and How They Are Used

Types of Lenses and How They Are Used

Lenses are one of the most important considerations in photography. The lens you choose for each shot can dramatically change your results; its best to know how all the types work so you can make more informed decisions as a photographer in various situations. Wide Angle Lenses Wide angle lenses, are identified by the bulbous […]

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How to Fix Overexposed Images Using Lightroom

How to Fix Overexposed Images Using Lightroom

From portrait photography to commercial photography, every photographer needs to understand how to correct an overexposed photo. It’s one of the most basic editing techniques, and it can be completed in a variety of ways. In this tutorial, professional photographer Aaron Nace shows how you can use Lightroom to easily fix this common problem: To begin […]

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