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Photo Editing a Portrait Subject’s Eyes in Luminar AI

Photo Editing a Portrait Subject’s Eyes in Luminar AI

With the release of the highly anticipated Luminar A.I. Photo Editor we’ve been exploring some of the new editing tools and what they can do. The FaceAI tool in LuminarAI has new tools to improve your subjects’ eyes. These tools allow you to change your subject’s iris color, determine the intensity of that color change, […]

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Four Ways to Use a One Light Setup in Studio Photography

Four Ways to Use a One Light Setup in Studio Photography

Whenever portrait photographers come across a well-taken fashion portrait, it is common for them to guess about the complex lighting setup that might’ve been used. But, as photographer Ian Hippolyte demonstrates in this video, you don’t always need a sophisticated lighting rig to get that perfect editorial look. In fact, a single source of light […]

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Common Challenges in Wide-Angle Photography

Common Challenges in Wide-Angle Photography

Wide-angle lenses are the best choice you can make for landscape photography. Their wider field of view allows you to get more beautiful scenery and compose a better photograph. But this is easier said than done. If you’re not used to working with wide-angle lenses, and you pick one up, you’ll soon realize that they […]

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Rain Photography Tips

Rain Photography Tips

Do you love the sound and sight of rain? If you do, then you can consider this as a great opportunity to take beautiful photos. Though many of you may be unaware, the scenes after the rain and even during the rain provide a golden opportunity to use your creativity and take some of your […]

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How to Photograph Stars in the Night Sky

How to Photograph Stars in the Night Sky

Love shooting long exposures of the night time sky but struggle with the exposure and other settings? This simple tutorial by Mango Street might just be what you need to get going: The Best Lens for Nighttime Long Exposure Photography The recommended lens for night time sky/star photography is a wide angle with a fast, […]

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How to Use Lens Aperture to Demonstrate Importance and Tell Stories

How to Use Lens Aperture to Demonstrate Importance and Tell Stories

Single lens reflex cameras have interchangeable lenses that allow photographers to change the aperture of those lenses. The aperture is the hole inside the lens whose size is determined by you, the photographer. And that is as long as you’re using your camera in Manual or Aperture Priority Mode. You may wonder why the size […]

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Beginner Workflow for Macro Photography

Beginner Workflow for Macro Photography

Whether you accept it or not, we all love macro photographs. I mean, who doesn’t like an intensely detailed bug or a flower on a silky creamy background? The first thing that we do after getting our hands on a DSLR for the first time is to go to our backyard and start taking flower pictures. But […]

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Better Results In-Camera Without Using Photoshop

Better Results In-Camera Without Using Photoshop

Photoshop has been a blessing to most of us photographers. It is undoubtedly a very powerful and important tool, but in some ways, it has also made us lazy. It lets us easily fix things in post-processing rather than try and get the image right in-camera. But if you think about it, getting things right […]

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Flash Photography: Manual or TTL in a Home Studio

Flash Photography: Manual or TTL in a Home Studio

If you’ve worked with flash, you know you can choose its power yourself or let the camera do it for you. By setting the flash power manually, you gain complete control over the exposure. And by using the automatic mode (TTL), you let the camera do the heavy lifting. Each of these modes has certain […]

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Composition Photo Editing Tools in Luminar AI

Composition Photo Editing Tools in Luminar AI

With the release of the highly anticipated Luminar A.I. Photo Editor we’ve been exploring some of the new editing tools and what they can do. CompositionAI is a new tool that automatically adjusts a photo’s composition, crop and perspective. After using CompositionAI, you can still make changes manually to fine tune the result. Click the […]

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