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20 Unbelievable Portraits of People with Real Animals

20 Unbelievable Portraits of People with Real Animals

Have you ever dreamed of using real animals in your images? Katerina Plotnikova is a photographer from Moscow who is famous for her surrealistic portraits that incorporate a variety of animals. She pushes the limits of possibility to create these unique combinations of both reality and surrealism: However, the twist is that none of Plotnikova’s images […]

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How to Add a Gradient Reflection to Product Photography Shots

How to Add a Gradient Reflection to Product Photography Shots

We feature the work of product photographer, Alex Koloskov quite often here on PictureCorrect, because he is a master of the craft and he regularly puts out helpful video tutorials to help us all sharpen up our skills. In this clip below, he shows us a quick and simple way to use a large softbox […]

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The Keys to Successful Wedding Photography

The Keys to Successful Wedding Photography

Photojournalist, sports photographer, landscape photographer, wedding photographer. Mel DiGiacomo wears many hats. Here, he takes the audience on a journey where he explains the nuances of wedding photography, his way: “What I want out of a wedding is real life. I want some kind of truth, whether it’s my truth or their truth. Don’t ask […]

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Use Photoshop to Replicate the Look and Feel of Any Photo

Use Photoshop to Replicate the Look and Feel of Any Photo

How often do you see a beautifully edited image and wish you could give your own photos a similar look? Ben Secret leads this instructional video that shows you, step-by-step, how to recreate any image’s feel using Photoshop: Secret first analyzes the original image and then uses this to apply it to another image. Here’s […]

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Selfies Anonymous: The 12-Step Support Group for Selfie-holics

Selfies Anonymous: The 12-Step Support Group for Selfie-holics

“Three days ago, I posted a shameless mirror selfie—you know the kind,” a young man confesses, holding up his phone. “As you can see, I didn’t even take the time to turn the flash off.” Tyler’s support groupmates all nod knowingly. Some of them are shirtless selfie addicts and others can’t resist posting inordinate amounts of […]

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Stormy Timelapse Video Captures Triple Lightning Strike in Chicago

Stormy Timelapse Video Captures Triple Lightning Strike in Chicago

It was June 30, 2014. Ominous clouds closed in on Chicago as the day waned and by dusk, rain was falling in sheets and the sky was alive with electricity. Perched high on a rooftop terrace, videographer Craig Shimala was feeling supercharged, too. See, back in 2010, he had filmed a triple lightning strike to Chicago’s three […]

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Ease Your Workflow by Using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop Presets

Ease Your Workflow by Using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop Presets

The tool presets in Photoshop are some of the most under-utilized, yet super-useful functions in Photoshop. Presets save custom settings, allowing you to reproduce the same look or action to images with minimal effort. They’re especially helpful if you have multiple images that need a certain look or feel to them or if you have […]

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What is the Inverse Square Law of Light?

What is the Inverse Square Law of Light?

The inverse square law is a useful bit of information when it comes to lighting for photography. That being said, it can also be quite confusing to understand. Fortunately, Karl Taylor has made this two part video tutorial to show us what the inverse square law is all about and how it can be used […]

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A Trick for Simulating Even Outdoor Lighting in the Studio

A Trick for Simulating Even Outdoor Lighting in the Studio

Kevin Lynch, an entertainment advertising photographer, has discovered an interesting way to achieve even, fully adjustable lighting in his portrait photography by expanding on the idea of a lightbox. Take a look at the pro photographer’s system in this quick behind-the-scenes look at the lighting setup in action: By essentially making a huge lightbox—big enough […]

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How to Create Amazing Nighttime Panoramas With 360-Degree Timelapse Photography

How to Create Amazing Nighttime Panoramas With 360-Degree Timelapse Photography

You’ve heard of timelapse photography–a technique often used to accentuate the movement of the sun, clouds, and stars. You may have also experimented with 360 degree panoramas.  But how about combining the two? That’s just what Vincent Brady did: To get this effect, Vincent had to custom-create his own camera set-up: 4 cameras with fisheye […]

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