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Shooting with natural light can lead to beautiful landscapes and portraits, but controlling the sun is difficult—you need reflectors, the right positioning, and patience in case clouds change everything. Sometimes, you just need to overpower the sun—this video shows how: Cameras don’t have great dynamic range—they can’t keep everything perfectly exposed, even if it looks that way to us […]
Architectural photography is an art form in itself. It takes a photographer with a keen eye to capture the beauty and showcase the architect’s design in a single photo. Photographer Julius Shulman was one of the most well-known architectural photographers. He prided himself in not only creating an incredible image of a building, but also […]
Photoshop nerds, rejoice! Someone has created a Photoshop file that depicts, in real-time, how the edits you make are translated in Photoshop’s curve system. It’s difficult to explain, but this video shows it all: The video comes form Pratik Naik, who excitedly explains how the curve shows everything from multiple color properties to basic brightness/contrast adjustments. Casual photographers may […]
In a recent article titled Lasting Impressions: How to Create Memorable Travel Photographs, PictureCorrect provided detailed coverage of a lecture by Luke Ballard, an esteemed travel photographer who has successfully combined his two great passions—photography and globetrotting—into a successful career. Ballard returns in this video with fresh instruction on how to survive in this highly […]
In what’s probably the best tourism video to be released this year, viewers can take a hyper-lapse ride through the streets of Istanbul, across the Bosphorus River and into the famous Sultan Ahmed Mosque—all in a rapid-fire two minutes. Check it out: The video was made by British media specialist Rob Whitworth, who’s made similarly […]
Fairy tales are stories of things that happened, as they always say, a long time ago. They show us the world of magic and untold mysteries. These fairy tale photos can make a story all on their own. If a photograph is worth 1,000 words, what do you think these photographs say? Do you have […]
How can you make shadows disappear? There are a number of ways—curves, filters, brushes—but Glyn Dewis prefers a method called frequency separation that uses a combination of everything. Watch how he does it below: He cast the shadow of his model’s glasses with a cross-lighting rig, but he’s using Adobe Photoshop to get rid of it. It’s a fairly complex […]
Are you just starting out as a baby photographer? Have you been doing it for years? Either way, baby photography comes with its own set of unique hurdles, especially when photographing newborns. Besides just choosing the right lighting and pose, newborns need extra special care at all times. To make it a little easier on […]
Are you struggling to make it as a photographer and just can’t seem to get there? You’re not getting jobs, people aren’t buying the photos you put online, you say you’ve tried everything, and you don’t know what else to do. Photographer Jared Polin may help put things into perspective for you. There’s no beating around […]
In portrait lighting you can use one, two, or even three or more lights to create different effects, but if you’re a beginner, how do you know where to start? This short video by photographer Daniel Norton gives some great pointers: Key Light In portrait lighting, we usually start with a key light. This on […]
