Tag Archives: Dramatic
Watch This: Tips For Dramatic Portraits With One Light
How To Try this simple lighting solution with minimal gear These well-done tutorials show a single-light portrait from start to finish. Popular Photography
New Deal: Intensify Photo Editor for Dramatic Detail
Want your images to POP? Join thousands of photographers who have discovered Intensify. Four incredible detail algorithms help you get eye-popping depth that is noise-free, halo-free and full of life. Intensify includes a vast number of ultra-powerful adjustments to deliver the … Continue reading
How to Create a Dramatic Cinematic Style Portrait Using Photoshop Color Grading
Cinematic style portraits are personally one of my favourites. What I like the most about them are the desaturated colours and the dramatic ambience. Before we start the tutorial on colour grading, I will give you some of my best … Continue reading
CDLC Presents: The Dramatic Portrait with Eric Stoner
From the Canon Digital Learning Center: I used to consider myself a “natural light” photographer and I got really good at controlling the light that was provided to me to make beautiful portraits. Speedlites were somewhat of a mystery to … Continue reading
4 Tips for More Dramatic Beach Photos
For some of us, the beach is a way of life. Whether it’s barefoot strolls at sunset, surfing in the big waves, or simply relaxing in the sun, the beach can be a magical place that is food for the … Continue reading
Karl Taylor Illustrates How to Create Dramatic Skies in Photoshop
From the Karl Taylor YouTube Channel: Make your Sky Outstanding with this Top Photographer Trick! – What I’m going to show you today is how you can enhance the sky in some of your photos. So if you’ve ever taken a … Continue reading
How to Use Shadow and Contrast to Create Dramatic Images
You can use shadow and contrast to create dramatic images. The key is to forget about shadow detail. You don’t need it. Shadows are meant to be dark and mysterious. This is good – it leaves something to the viewer’s … Continue reading
Use a Hard Light for a Dramatic Portrait
Felix Sanchez Portrait photographers live and die by their ability to produce a soft light. Whether created using a softbox, diffuser, umbrella, or window, soft is by far the most common flavor of studio lighting. But it doesn’t have to … Continue reading
Low-Key Lighting for Dramatic Portraits
Young girl dressed up for Halloween. Low-key portrait using one speedlight, against a typical black background. I dare say that nothing is quite like the effect of low-key lighting to show drama in an image. So what does low-key lighting … Continue reading
Using Gobos To Create Dramatic Lighting
When lighting a subject, one of the things you want to try to do is create drama, or a context, using the light. This often means modifying your light source. One of the easiest ways to modify your flash to … Continue reading