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Tips for Setting Up Your Own Home Portrait Studio

Tips for Setting Up Your Own Home Portrait Studio

Your studio is not only your place of work, it’s your zone—the place where you can be yourself. It’s a place where nothing distracts you, leaving you submerged in your creativity. It’s also the place where you bring your clients. So it’s important how you choose to design the layout and furnishings. In this video, Ruth Medjber shares some valuable […]

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10 Delicious Ways to Improve Your iPhone Food Photography

10 Delicious Ways to Improve Your iPhone Food Photography

As social media has exploded in popularity in recent years, we have also seen a drastic increase in food photographers. These artists often use Instagram and Facebook as platforms to share their work, and some creatives have even gone so far as to dedicate their channels entirely to iPhone photography (also labeled “iPhonography” by some). In the following […]

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Smoke and Tea Photography Session Behind the Scenes

Smoke and Tea Photography Session Behind the Scenes

Do Burning Man tea houses have a life after the annual Nevada desert extravaganza? Some do! Entranced by the scene of the Deep Tea Haus at Burning Man, wardrobe stylist Jasmine Hamed decided to team up with professional photographer Thomas Kuoh to shoot a “smoking hot gypsy tea party.” Here’s how they put it together: […]

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How to Create a Cinematic Black & White Portrait Effect in Photoshop

How to Create a Cinematic Black & White Portrait Effect in Photoshop

Despite all the wonderful real-world advantages of digital photography, once in a while the typical grainy film look just feels so enchanting. So much so that we actually seek out ways to post-process and convert some of our perfectly good color images to give them a nostalgic black and white look. In this video, Andrei Oprinca shares […]

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How to Customize Your Photoshop Toolbar

How to Customize Your Photoshop Toolbar

If you’re like thousands of other occasional users Photoshop, you may not have given this a thought. A lot of the popular editing software’s interface is customizable, which means you can play around with the default panel and toolbar. This video from the PTC gives you a quick demonstration  for a better workflow: Customizing the Photoshop Toolbar […]

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See Inside The Kodak Technology Vault

See Inside The Kodak Technology Vault

It’s like walking down the aisle of history—photographic history to be precise. Tips from the Top Floor anchor Chris Marquardt gives us a peek at his private tour of the humongous George Eastman Museum Technology Vault in Rochester, NY: The museum’s technical curator, Todd Gustavson, was kind enough to show off everything right from the Daguerreotype, to […]

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How to Create Soft Portrait Lighting

How to Create Soft Portrait Lighting

Studio lighting isn’t as difficult as it may seem. In fact, with just two lights, you can create several different types of shots simply by repositioning them. Here’s how: The first step, according to Scott Kelby, is to get a big, soft light. He’s exclusively using a dual Westcott package, which includes a large softbox and slender […]

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Platinum Palladium Photography Printing

Platinum Palladium Photography Printing

The process of platinum palladium printing is widely believed to be able to produce a tonal range that is closest to what the human eye sees. This process of monochrome printing, however, is extremely time consuming. Nobuyuki Kobayashi, a Japanese photographer uses this technique to make prints for his project titled, “Portraits of Nature: Myriads of […]

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How to Trigger Strobes with Sound for High Speed Photography

How to Trigger Strobes with Sound for High Speed Photography

Breaking glass and taking pictures—sounds like a really punk way to make photos. This video by Jay P. Morgan shows you exactly to how to do it: Using a Trigger The key to Morgan’s technique is the MIOPS Trigger. The MIOPS trigger is connected to the camera and fires the shutter when a sound is heard. The camera […]

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Photographer Creates an Automatic Color Film Processor Called Filmomat

Photographer Creates an Automatic Color Film Processor Called Filmomat

In an era when digital photos can be taken with everything from DSLR cameras and phones to even watches you wear on your wrist, it’s difficult to imagine taking photos with analog cameras and developing the film yourself in a modern photography workflow. This, however, is a challenge that Lukas Fritz took on: If you take some […]

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