We’re all familiar with the power of Lightroom presets. They’re time saving tools that we use on an everyday basis to edit and finalize our images. But did you know that you can also use presets to export your images with your preferred file name convention and sizing? Aaron Nace has this solution: From […]
Niccolo Porcella is a kitesurfer, famous wakeboarder (he rode the biggest kiting wave in history at Peahi Jaws), skydiver, and base jumper. This portrait of him hovering over Venice illustrates his adventurous spirit quite well: Porcella’s friend, Max Haim, captured this unique and amazing shot. How’s that for an environmental portrait?
Have you taken the plunge from Lightroom Classic to the new Lightroom CC? The new program boasts periodic updates to speed up the post-processing and photo management workflow. But one area that you may struggle with is in copying your presets to the new platform. Terry White has a solution: On first look it might […]
Long exposures of burning steel wool aren’t anything new. But Xero Marzilli shot this image with a twist. A model standing under the flying sparks with an umbrella creates fiery raindrops: It was an awfully cold evening when the shot was made. Eighteen degrees Fahrenheit, to be precise. Not a bad evening to have sparks […]
Nineteen year old Marcus Cote is a college student and an amateur photographer based out of the Space Coast of Florida. He’s currently working on a 365 day photo challenge. This photo is a part of that ongoing process: On a day that the ISS was making a high angle and high magnitude pass, Cote set […]
Benjamin Von Wong is never shy to accept a challenge, be it swimming with sharks several feet underwater or shooting in bad weather. So when Nike put the ball in his court, he was game: The challenge? Suspend a subject 36 floors up a building face using a harness. To make matters more complicated, his […]
Rod Evans loves long exposure photography. Though his repertoire extends beyond just dragging the shutter, one look at his portfolio and you’re bound to get what he loves to shoot. He also loves creating composite images. This seemingly impossible shot is actually a composite of several images: Evans’s technique for creating these mushrooms was developed by […]
Imagine you’re at a photo shoot. You have models waiting for instructions, clients waiting for their creatives, and then something happens. Your inner critic takes over. So much so that it becomes difficult to work with any degree of freedom. Your every move, your every change of camera setting, and your every shot is vehemently […]
A good lens can bring the out the best of the moment and the model. If you’ve been wondering which lens to buy for portrait photography, this video by Mark Wallace is probably what you’ve been waiting for: Though the decision making process is difficult, you can break it down in a scientific way to […]
Well, if you have survived a music festival in one piece, and all your gear is intact, that’s a big achievement in itself. But you can’t put your feet up and take the next few days off. There’s a lot of work to do and very little time to do it. Post-processing is a heavy […]
