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7 Tips for Eye-Catching Minimalist Photography

7 Tips for Eye-Catching Minimalist Photography

Want to make your own minimalist and modern photos for your blog or social media page? Jenny Mustard shows us seven easy ways to create and shoot minimalist photos. These tips are great if you need to come up with interesting and eye-catching photos for a blog or even just add a new dynamic to your […]

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Tips for Using Fishing Line for Photography Tricks

Tips for Using Fishing Line for Photography Tricks

Most serious studio photographers are known to keep an eclectic mix of props and tools close at hand. They like to be prepared for any situation that may come their way. And there’s one thing in particularthat no creative photographer should go without. To the outsider, it may seem strange, but few things come in […]

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10 Ways to Improve and Promote Your Photography Company

10 Ways to Improve and Promote Your Photography Company

1. Connect With Other Photographers If you are just starting your business, be sure to build relationships with photographers both at home and abroad. Local established photographers are great resources to build experience as a second shooter, and they are good to know if they happen to be overbooked and need a trusted photographer to […]

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How Photographer Irving Penn Redefined Beauty

How Photographer Irving Penn Redefined Beauty

Irving Penn masterfully crafted an image through expert use of lighting, unique postures, and often a blank canvas background. He removed the excesses from portraiture, inviting viewers to take a deeper look at his subjects. The photos below are pulled from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s major retrospective of his work: As the folks […]

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How to Photograph 3 Headshot Looks with Just 1 Background

How to Photograph 3 Headshot Looks with Just 1 Background

Perhaps you’re on a budget, or maybe you just hate switching out backgrounds. Either way, this tutorial from portrait and lifestyle photographer Jeff Carpenter has some great tips for getting different color backgrounds with a minimum of gear and fuss: Having the versatility to get a number of different looks with just one studio setup […]

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How to Display Art in Your Home: Infographic

How to Display Art in Your Home: Infographic

We put tons of time and effort into getting our photos just right. So why don’t we put in the same amount of thought when we hang our photos on the wall?   This infographic from Made explains how to hang your photos in a way that makes your home and does justice to your […]

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How and When to Use the Graduated and Radial Filter Tools in Lightroom

How and When to Use the Graduated and Radial Filter Tools in Lightroom

Lightroom filters are very useful for adjusting exposure, white balance, and other settings in selected parts of your images. When used correctly, they can transform any image from good to great. This video from Phlearn introduces graduated and radial filters to beginner Lightroom users: Both the graduated and the radial filters are located at the […]

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Polished Lightroom Adjustment Brush Presets

Polished Lightroom Adjustment Brush Presets

Here is a new boost to your photo editing workflow, a simple way to add “wow factor” and retouch your photos, without having to use Photoshop – in only 3 clicks…even if you’re brand new to editing your photos. Designed to give you all of the retouching & fine-tuning you’d want to do with your photos without […]

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9 Creative Photos of the Sky

9 Creative Photos of the Sky

Point your camera just a little bit higher above eye level and you’ll see the colors of the clouds flying around in slow motion. Enjoy the view and capture some of the scenes you came up with! We found some interesting ones to share here with you: Play with colors, motion, and reflection to make breathtaking images of […]

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3 Authentic Posing Tips for Couples Photography

3 Authentic Posing Tips for Couples Photography

There are a lot of articles and videos out there about how you should be posing couples to get beautiful, lasting shots. But, what many of them lack is advice to get authentic portraits. I mean, really honest images—pictures that show what the couple is really like, how they interact, the way they laugh together […]

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