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Tips for Maintaining Creativity as a Photographer

Tips for Maintaining Creativity as a Photographer

As photographers it is pretty much in our job description to produce creative and inspiring work. If your income is based around photography then you know creativity sells. However, there’s always a point in time when creativity is low—writers call it ‘writer’s block’. So how do we combat this unwelcome phenomenon? Luckily there are a […]

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Landscape Photo Editing in Lightroom: 7 Tips to Improve Color

Landscape Photo Editing in Lightroom: 7 Tips to Improve Color

Besides grabbing viewers’ attention, colors add a sense of mood, emotion, and drama to an image. In this video, landscape photographer Mark Denney shares seven tips for editing and enhancing colors in landscape photos using Lightroom: 1. White Balance White balance is essential for an accurate representation of colors. If the white balance isn’t set […]

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Photography Basics: How to Take Good Photos

Photography Basics: How to Take Good Photos

A good photograph is not just a physical photo, but someone’s story, memory, or even life. When we take photos, we tend to preserve the most important events and people in our lives. The ceremonies of birth and birthdays, marriages and anniversaries, holidays, travels, and new houses are all recorded because they matter to us. […]

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Landscape Photography: 5 Ways to Enhance Contrast

Landscape Photography: 5 Ways to Enhance Contrast

Contrast is one of the most important aspects that makes an image stand out. It defines structure and adds a sense of depth to an image to make it pop. In this elaborate video, photographer Mark Denney discusses five different ways you can enhance contrast in your landscape photos using Lightroom: When editing your photos, […]

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Black and White Photography Tips

Black and White Photography Tips

It is often believed that good photos are ones with beautiful colors. However, there are other forms of photography such as black and white, monochromatic, infrared etc. There is much more than simple, shining colors in pictures. Photography is the recording of light regardless of color and outcome. Black and white has been popular since […]

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New: Topaz Studio 2 Photo Editor Launch Sale

New: Topaz Studio 2 Photo Editor Launch Sale

Just released, Topaz Studio 2 is designed to be the future of creative photo editing. Equipped with powerful filters and frictionless masking in a fine-tuned non-destructive layer workflow. It works as a standalone or PS/LR plug-in for Mac + Windows. Currently 20% off for the launch sale today which ends soon. Learn more here: Topaz […]

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How to Become a Music Photographer

How to Become a Music Photographer

I don’t write enough, but I wanted to address something I may actually be qualified to speak on. Here’s the deal. Music photography is a long road, and it won’t pay well in the beginning—or for that matter maybe ever. So, start out with another means of income and shoot at night when you can. […]

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Low Light Concert Photography Tips

Low Light Concert Photography Tips

Live music pumps energy into you. As a photographer, if you’re able to capture that energy level and sense of excitement, then you’ll do justice to the performers. But concert photography is no walk in the park. The low lighting and other factors can make it really challenging to take any decent images. To help […]

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How to Critique Your Own Photos

How to Critique Your Own Photos

It has been said that the most difficult thing to do is to judge your creative work objectively. Be honest. Can you tell when your work seems to be missing something? More importantly, do you know what it is that’s missing? You can only improve your photos if you set a high photo standard to […]

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How to Avoid Red Eye in Photography

How to Avoid Red Eye in Photography

Today’s photo tip is about spooky, creepy looking eyes. We all know about the red eye effect ruining our photos, but have you ever seen the green or blue eye effect? This cousin of the red eye effect is often seen in pet portraits. In animals, green and blue eyes are the same thing as […]

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