Category Archives: Photo Techniques
Make Your Photo Subject Really Stand Out
Great photography subjects are all around us. You don’t have to go far to find interesting people, flowers, or wildlife. The real test is to use your skills to create a photo with genuine impact. How do you make your … Continue reading
5 Lens Tricks for Creative Portraits
Adding creative elements to your portraits is an effective way of making them appear more interesting. And you don’ need to spend too much of your hard earned cash to do so. Photographers Lin and Jirsa share five cheap lens … Continue reading
Camera Basics 101
Your camera is actually nothing more than a box with a hole in it. Yes, all that money you’ve spent and that is basically what you’ve got. The basics of a camera have changed very little since day one. You … Continue reading
Interesting Photo of the Day: Utah Desert Snow
You don’t always have to walk miles and climb heights to get amazing landscape shots. Sometimes the best locations are just a few steps away—if you know where to look. Photographer Morgan Tuohy captured this image in Utah just by … Continue reading
5 Things You Should Know About Composition
Composition is an interesting aspect of photography because there are no absolutes. It’s mostly opinion. Compose an image a certain way and some people will like it, some people won’t. You can argue for hours about why a photo works, … Continue reading
Style and Vision: What Makes One Photographer Different From Another?
In the artistic community much is said about style and how that style is more often than not linked to some innate talent. The style side is mostly true. Each artist, irrespective of their specific discipline, brings their own voice … Continue reading
5 Tips to Help Photographers Survive in a Down Economy
Many photographers are experiencing difficult times in certain countries. Here are some of the questions I am hearing: “My phone is not ringing. My billings are down. Should I stop marketing and save money?” “Why should I create a new … Continue reading
Tips to Eliminate Closed Eyes & Squinting in Portraits
In a previous article, I discussed shooting with the light at the subject’s back, creating a “halo” lighting pattern. Aside from being a particularly stunning light pattern, it automatically eliminates one of the biggest problems we have as photographers: squinting … Continue reading
Editing Travel Photos with Creative LUTs and Looks in Luminar
Travel photos are always exciting, bringing back memories of your journeys and the people you met. But have you ever looked at them when you got home and wished that the colors were more vibrant and exotic? Today we are … Continue reading
Street Portrait Photography Tips
Street photographers often shy away from making portraits because they don’t want to impose on people. Creating remarkable street photography portraits isn’t as scary as you may think. By making a stranger’s portrait you may also make their day. Be … Continue reading
Smartphone Camera Basics
The development of smartphone photography has had a dramatic effect on photography as a whole. It’s as important a change as the introduction of the Brownie box camera and digital photography, both of which played significant roles in spreading the … Continue reading
Black and White Conversion Tutorial in Luminar
Did you realize that you can make high-quality black and white image conversions in Luminar 3? Maybe you were under the impression that Luminar only catered to color images, but today we’re going to look at how you can use … Continue reading