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Portrait Sharpening Photoshop Tutorial

Portrait Sharpening Photoshop Tutorial

The typical way to sharpen a photo in post-production involves global sharpening. But you have the subject’s eyes, their clothing, facial hair, and so on to think about. You don’t necessarily want to sharpen all of these elements to the same degree. Aaron Nace from Phlearn shares his technique for giving portraits the right amount […]

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How to Shoot 360 Degree Product Photography

How to Shoot 360 Degree Product Photography

Staying on the cutting edge of e-commerce means moving into the world of 360 degree product photography. But making the jump might be a little intimidating if you’re only used to 2D. Luckily, it’s not really that difficult or expensive to set up. In the video below, Jay P. Morgan from the Slanted Lens demonstrates […]

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Ambrotype Photography in the Modern World

Ambrotype Photography in the Modern World

Conflict photographer Kurt Moser has travelled the world shooting war zones for more than 30 years. He has been through and captured scenes that no one should ever see. That has driven him to pursue something completely different: beauty. He now spends time capturing images of the Italian countryside. His favorite photography tool is a […]

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How Photography Enhances Relationships

How Photography Enhances Relationships

Recently a friend of ours passed away, an elderly widow who was the mother of nine. It fell on me to deliver our gift of condolence to her home and as I stepped inside the front door, my eyes were immediately drawn to a living room wall where a large artistic portrait of the entire […]

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How to Use a White Backdrop with Studio Portrait Photos

How to Use a White Backdrop with Studio Portrait Photos

A white wall is more versatile than you might think. If you have a perfectly white wall in your studio (or you can create one using some props) you have a background that you can manipulate to create any number of different looks. Mark Wallace from Adorama explains the 50 Shades of White: For this […]

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Film Photography is Still Alive

Film Photography is Still Alive

This is 2018, and every few months or so, photography technology makes a giant leap forward. This is the era of digital photography, well and truly. More and more people are taking up photography because it is extremely easy to do so. And yet, there are people who have persisted with film. Not only that, […]

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Portrait Photography with Hard Light

Portrait Photography with Hard Light

Soft is the universal favorite when it comes to shooting studio portraits, because it’s so flattering. But hard light can be a pleasantly effective and interesting light source, too—provided you know how to use it. Daniel Norton from Adorama, with ample help from his puppet, explains how to pull off some interesting keepers using hard light […]

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Discussion: How Much Photo Editing is Too Much?

Discussion: How Much Photo Editing is Too Much?

Both Photoshop and Lightroom (and any other photo editing software, for that matter) are incredible tools in the hands of photo editors. They help us to clean errors and adjust minor imperfections and in general produce a better image than the one that was captured in camera. But as with all technology, there is a […]

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Nature Photography’s Stuffed Anteater Scandal

Nature Photography’s Stuffed Anteater Scandal

It’s not often that the genre of nature photography becomes the subject of controversy. However, a recent scandal making headlines has proved to be so ludicrous that it caught the attention of comedy heavyweight Conan O’Brien: For thousands of wildlife photographers around the world, one of the most anticipated events of the year is the […]

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How to Create a Window Backdrop for Your Studio Portrait Setup

How to Create a Window Backdrop for Your Studio Portrait Setup

A simple, solid seamless backdrop has more than the obvious applications. With a bit of creativity, you can transform it into a dungeon wall complete with a window, as Jay P Morgan demonstrates: For this particular setting, Morgan used a charcoal gray seamless and cut an arched shaped window into it. He used tape to […]

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