Filling up space isn’t what photographers are commissioned for anymore. As artist rep Maren Levinson explains, “Now with amazing consumer cameras, Instagram, Flickr, you don’t need to pay a professional to fill a space. There are lot of ways to fill a space.” So, what does a professional photographer get commissioned for? She explains, “The […]
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 […]
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: […]
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, […]
HDR—or high dynamic range—photography is a technique that blends multiple exposures together to get the maximum detail from both shadow and highlight areas. In effect, it increases the dynamic range of your images, which is impossible to achieve using any other technique. Phil Steele just updated his popular Lightroom training course to cover the new features […]
Sometimes a simple thing like a color gel can drastically change the mood of a photo. Gels can also come in handy when you need to give a very specific look to your photos—something that would otherwise take a lot of effort to achieve. The best thing is these gels are inexpensive. In this video […]
Drones are fast becoming a part of our lives. Drones for product delivery, traffic management, and now drones as wedding photographers! Yeah, you read it right. And if we are to believe the pictures below, couples are digging it: A drone as a wedding photographer gives kind of a cool feeling to the whole event. […]
After days of speculation and gossip, Lightroom CC has finally been unveiled. Along with a bunch of great new features comes a host of new tweaks and updates. Here, photographer Terry White shows us his six favorite new features in Lightroom CC: 1. Work with HDR Right Inside Lightroom An interesting new feature in Lightroom […]
About a year ago, photographer Shane Black and two of his friends left behind their comfortable work routine and embarked on a journey that produced a mesmerizing timelapse. It was a product of visiting 32 states and 13 national parks on an epic 13,000 mile drive. This year, they decided to do an encore. Over […]
Digital photography has its many virtues, but when it comes to really getting inside the process of watching an image come alive, there is little to compare with the old methods. Before digital there was film and before film there was the wet plate collodion process—a truly elaborate and complicated process. There is still a […]
