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Photo Umbrellas for Photographers: 4 Tips

Photo Umbrellas for Photographers: 4 Tips

Getting bored of the results from using natural light? Then why not try your hand at flash photography? The only thing is, with the different lighting setups that include various light modifiers, flash photography can get confusing and too heavy on the pocket for many beginners. This isn’t always the case though. For instance, a […]

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Saving Time in Photo Editing: A Look at Mask AI

Saving Time in Photo Editing: A Look at Mask AI

Relevant note: only a little while left for the Luminar Neo Easter Sale Now that photographers have access to Luminar Neo, we’ve been getting a better look at some of the new tools in it’s arsenal. Today we are looking at it’s AI-based masking tool. Instead of spending hours manually masking or refining details, you […]

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Adding Depth to Portraits Using Fabric Walls

Adding Depth to Portraits Using Fabric Walls

Your backgrounds play an important role in adding depth to your portraits. But, when you work in a small home studio, you may not have the flexibility of working with different backgrounds. That does not mean that you’re stuck with whatever you’ve got. Photographer Gavin Hoey from Adorama shows you how you can use fake […]

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Tips for First Time Wedding Photographers

Tips for First Time Wedding Photographers

Wedding photographers are trusted with the responsibility to capture one of the most important days of two individuals, and doing it for the first time can be really scary. But if you are well prepared, both mentally and technically, things don’t need to be stressful. If you are a wedding photographer who’s relatively new on […]

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Travel Photographer Shares Her Favorite Sony Lenses

Travel Photographer Shares Her Favorite Sony Lenses

Travel photography is only fun if your gear doesn’t drag you down. While you’d like to carry everything while traveling, it isn’t practical. In fact, you want to travel minimally, with versatile lenses that work in many situations. So, what should you take along? To answer the question, we have travel photographer Allison Anderson to […]

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Landscape Photographer Shares Composition Mistakes to Avoid

Landscape Photographer Shares Composition Mistakes to Avoid

Some people have a natural eye for composition. But others spend a lot of time and effort to get things right. It takes time, but it’s possible to learn how to create a composition that wows everyone. In that process, you will make mistakes, but it’s important to realize that mistakes are the pillars to […]

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Action Photography with High Speed Sync Flash

Action Photography with High Speed Sync Flash

When you use flash, your shutter speed gets limited at around 1/200 or 1/250 second. Because of this, you often end up with blurry images when taking action photos with flash and ambient light. So how do you go about using flash when photographing fast-moving subjects? Photographer Gavin Hoey from Adorama walks you through the […]

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Key Light for Portraits: Softbox or Reflectors?

Key Light for Portraits: Softbox or Reflectors?

Softboxes and reflectors are the most common types of light modifiers that photographers use. While a softbox is a directional light source, reflectors are used to instead bounce light. Both of these light modifiers thus have unique traits of their own. In today’s video, photographer Daniel Norton from Adorama compares these light sources when used […]

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Types of Light in Photography

Types of Light in Photography

Moving into the structural elements of light enhances photographic skill. Light quality is infinite and changes all the time, yet once appreciated and acknowledged, its variables are intriguing. Photographers have the unique opportunity to control light and as a result, share stories, original concepts and unique ideas. This is done not only by considering camera […]

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Improve Your Photography: 25 Ways

Improve Your Photography: 25 Ways

Access to photography is quite convenient these days. Thanks to smartphones and social media, almost everyone around us actively takes photos nowadays. As a photographer, it’s thus very essential that you’re able to differentiate your work from that of others – the general population. Just pointing your camera at the subject and taking photos won’t […]

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