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There has been a recent resurgence in the popularity of photobooths in the past few years and now they are starting to pop in all kinds of places from bars and nightclubs to private birthday parties. There is a rental market for the machines, but if a rental isn’t exactly in your budget you can always make […]
Many aspiring landscape photographers dream for the chance to travel the world and take photos for a living. Lars Schneider was one of those photographers, and now he’s living the dream. But it’s not all rainbows and butterflies. Besides the challenges of capturing amazing landscape images across the nation, he’s traveling with his wife and […]
Photographing stars can be very difficult to master due to long exposure times and the limitations of some digital cameras. However, the easy to follow video tutorial Ben Canales has made, that you can watch below, helps to take out a lot of the guesswork when it comes to proper exposure. Canales also goes over […]
Street photography can be nerve-racking for some people. The idea of talking to strangers and/or capturing photos of them can be daunting. There are a lot of complaints people give for not doing street photography, but there are solutions to all of these issues. In this video, Adam Marelli goes step-by-step in discussing the top […]
Photographers who shoot portraits for a living are absolutely crazy about soft light. They’d go miles to get the perfect light to create stunning portraits. You might think the perfect lighting requires some pretty expensive and elaborate arrangements. But photographer Joel Grimes shows you how he does it with just one light: For this shoot, […]
A hyperlapse is a form of timelapse photography where the position of the camera moves between each exposure to create a nice, seamless tracking shot in timelapse form. It’s pretty easy to do, but not so easy to make it look good. UK filmmaker Cal Thomson shows us how to shoot smooth long exposure hyperlapses: When shooting […]
On July 11, 2014, New Yorkers were treated to a rare solar phenomenon –“Manhattanhenge”–an urban event that occurs when the sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid. The effect lights up both the north and south sides of each cross street simultaneously, creating a highly-anticipated, beautiful sight: Like Stonehenge–where light lines up with the […]
HDR—or high dynamic range—photography is a technique that blends multiple exposures together to get the maximum detail from both shadow and highlight areas. In effect, it increases the dynamic range of your images, which is impossible to achieve using any other technique. Phil Steele just updated his popular Lightroom training course to cover the new features […]
Sometimes a simple thing like a color gel can drastically change the mood of a photo. Gels can also come in handy when you need to give a very specific look to your photos—something that would otherwise take a lot of effort to achieve. The best thing is these gels are inexpensive. In this video […]
Lightroom presets work so well these days it’s easy to just use them and nothing else – amazing professional photo edits with one click. Or they often offer a good starting point to further post-processing. As part of the eBook download, included are 10 Lightroom Presets Designed for Landscape & Cityscape Photography This is how to install […]
