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How to Create Motivated Light in Your Photos

How to Create Motivated Light in Your Photos

Let’s first clear your doubt. Motivated light isn’t a type of light that motivates you. Nah, that would have been too obvious! Motivated light is actually a light source that you place in the shot. Normally, when we create images using any type of light we avoid putting the light source in the image (unless […]

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Dreamy Drone Footage Lets You Fly Over Iceland

Dreamy Drone Footage Lets You Fly Over Iceland

You’ll feel like you’re having that dream where you’re flying effortlessly when you watch this video. Photographer Elia Locardi filmed this amazing footage using a drone and a GoPro Hero 4 Silver. Watch the video to be transported to the magical land of Iceland: Currently working on making a comprehensive tutorial, Locardi is traveling all […]

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The Photographer’s Wedding Day Shot List

The Photographer’s Wedding Day Shot List

Most wedding photographers an identify with photographer Jasmine Star when she says, “When it came time for me to shoot my first wedding on my own, I was beyond nervous.” Star has a few words of advice for how to handle your first wedding—in the form of a suggestive list of all the must-have shots: […]

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How to Fake the Medium Format Look in Your Portraits

How to Fake the Medium Format Look in Your Portraits

Don’t you wish you could take super-crisp portraits at incredibly shallow depths of field? Not just the eyes or some other narrow point of focus, but the entire face and even the upper body? If so, then take a look at this tutorial by photographer Glyn Dewis. He shows us how to use Photoshop’s panorama […]

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Bundle Deal from 10 Landscape Photography Experts

Bundle Deal from 10 Landscape Photography Experts

A well-rounded collection of ebooks and video courses was designed to strengthen every part of your photography workflow. We were able to arrange an offer for PictureCorrect readers which has expired, sorry about that, stay tuned to see what’s next! From Planning to Post Processing, 10 Experts Help You Accelerate Your Photographic Journey What You Get In-depth […]

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How to Make a Photobooth

How to Make a Photobooth

There has been a recent resurgence in the popularity of photobooths in the past few years and now they are starting to pop in all kinds of places from bars and nightclubs to private birthday parties. There is a rental market for the machines, but if a rental isn’t exactly in  your budget you can always make […]

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Life of a Traveling Landscape Photographer

Life of a Traveling Landscape Photographer

Many aspiring landscape photographers dream for the chance to travel the world and take photos for a living. Lars Schneider was one of those photographers, and now he’s living the dream. But it’s not all rainbows and butterflies. Besides the challenges of capturing amazing landscape images across the nation, he’s traveling with his wife and […]

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How to Photograph Stars: Camera Settings & Setup

How to Photograph Stars: Camera Settings & Setup

Photographing stars can be very difficult to master due to long exposure times and the limitations of some digital cameras. However, the easy to follow video tutorial Ben Canales has made, that you can watch below, helps to take out a lot of the guesswork when it comes to proper exposure. Canales also goes over […]

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Tips for Approaching & Photographing Strangers

Tips for Approaching & Photographing Strangers

Street photography can be nerve-racking for some people. The idea of talking to strangers and/or capturing photos of them can be daunting. There are a lot of complaints people give for not doing street photography, but there are solutions to all of these issues. In this video, Adam Marelli goes step-by-step in discussing the top […]

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How to Create Ultra-Soft Cross Light for Your Portraits

How to Create Ultra-Soft Cross Light for Your Portraits

Photographers who shoot portraits for a living are absolutely crazy about soft light. They’d go miles to get the perfect light to create stunning portraits. You might think the perfect lighting requires some pretty expensive and elaborate arrangements. But photographer Joel Grimes shows you how he does it with just one light: For this shoot, […]

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