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How to Build a DIY LED Lighting Setup for Photographing Still Life

How to Build a DIY LED Lighting Setup for Photographing Still Life

Professional commercial photographer Alex Koloskov has made an insightful video outlining some of the advantages of a DIY light setup. He demonstrates how you can build your own setup using LED light bulbs that are readily available in many stores for a fraction of the price of dedicated photography lights. He even gives an in-depth […]

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A Smarter Way to High Pass Sharpen in Photoshop

A Smarter Way to High Pass Sharpen in Photoshop

High pass sharpening has been one of Photoshop’s most commonly used filters by professional photographers. But Michael Woloszynowicz noticed some problems with the traditional method—namely, an unnatural white outline and awkward lighting around the eyes, where colors contrast. Here’s his solution: Woloszynowicz’s video is very technical and may be confusing for some, but professionals and semi-professionals […]

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6 Expert Tips for Ski Photography

6 Expert Tips for Ski Photography

Ski photography is a dangerous game—there’s snow flying everywhere and skiers shooting past you, and through the chaos you need to be ready to capture every moment while your subject is zooming down a mountain. You can’t ask them to turn back and try again, because that will take at least 10 minutes of waiting […]

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How to Set Up a Home Studio on a Budget

How to Set Up a Home Studio on a Budget

Photography is an equipment-intensive hobby. Purchasing all the equipment you need to set up a professional studio setting is beyond the budget for many of amateur photographers. Luckily, Jay P. Morgan has put together a great video that shows us how we can build a few of the necessary items surprisingly easily and, most importantly, […]

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How to Shoot Portraits Mixing Natural & Artificial Light

How to Shoot Portraits Mixing Natural & Artificial Light

In a perfect world, photographers would find ideal available light at every portrait shoot. In reality, there are situations when the time of day, weather conditions, or poorly-lit locations call for additional light. That’s where this eBook on adding flash to daylight, comes in. There are many reasons to add flash to natural light. Found here: Location Flash […]

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Amazing Hubble Telescope Zoom of Spiral Galaxy

Amazing Hubble Telescope Zoom of Spiral Galaxy

NASA releases pretty amazing images for astrophiles to enjoy and study, and the image below of the spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 is one of those gems. In the vertiginous video below, you can watch as the image spins and zooms deep into space, eventually revealing the runaway spiral galaxy which is over 200 million light […]

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How to Enhance Eyes in Photoshop

How to Enhance Eyes in Photoshop

They say the eyes are windows to the soul—but in photography, those windows usually have blinds covering them. When eyes pop, people notice, and it can mean the difference between a good shot and a great one. In this video, the guys at Phlearn take us through an innovative way to bump up eye colors in Photoshop […]

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Quick Indoor Lighting Fix for Dark Photos

Quick Indoor Lighting Fix for Dark Photos

If you’re just starting out as a photographer, you may not have a firm concept of lighting yet. That’s okay—practice makes perfect photos, after all. When taking shots indoors, you’ll want to shoot near a window during daytime if you want that pleasantly soft natural light. In this video, Maggie Hudson shows us a simple fix […]

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How to Become a Street Photographer

How to Become a Street Photographer

Street photography is probably one of the most difficult genres of photography, as it is based on the unknown. You can select a frame, but you can’t necessarily select the characters in it or how they will behave to make your picture look good. In modern terms, you could call street photography an art snapshot. […]

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Mystical 4K Timelapse of Yellowstone National Park

Mystical 4K Timelapse of Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is one of America’s true gems. It’s a powerful wildlife expanse of blasting geysers and unencumbered trees, filling up the northwestern corner of Wyoming, along with chunks of Idaho and Montana. If you’ve never been, this part-video, part-timelapse short film, shot entirely using Canon’s strongest 4K video, might convince you to leave […]

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