Using Capture One Styles can help you speed up your workflow and find the right look more quickly. Styles are essentially preset effects and filters that you can create and save for future use. They work very much like Lightroom Presets, but have a few key differences. Specifically, the way styles are applied and adjusted differs the most from
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It can be difficult in portrait photography to make your work stand out as unique. Especially in an era where smartphones and selfies have taken over, professional and hobbyist photographers need to find a way to make their work heighten cinematic drama or at least stand out from the photos we see every day. The
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Macphun recently launched Luminar. A new photo editing software platform for Mac. It is quite unique compared to some of the other photo editing programs on the market and simplifies a lot of the editing process. Over the past few weeks we’ve had the opportunity to test the new Luminar Presets feature and build a few premium sets of our own.
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Cover Image by Cameraman Kiev. In filmmaking, the creativity doesn’t stop with writing a killer script and finding beautiful shots—the reality of budget constraints requires every filmmaker to devise creative solutions to production challenges. Whether that means selling your excess b-roll as stock footage for additional funding or teaching yourself new video editing tricks on YouTube, the
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Shutter speed is a critical component of the exposure triangle, along with aperture and ISO. If you want to get the best quality photos you will need to understand exposure and how each element of the triangle impacts the others. Shutter speed can also be used in landscape and nature photography to create some interesting
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Like many other creative professionals, photographers often tend to be so focused on improving their craft that they neglect the business side of things. But even though it will initially require some extra time and effort, getting properly organized will help things run more smoothly and can even allow you to spend more time doing
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Using the Graduated Filter Tool and the Adjustment Brush Tool can dramatically help your process when editing in Adobe Lightroom. These brushes let you paint adjustments on to your photos in specific areas. You can dodge and burn skin tones, enhance exposure for skies, and make a bunch of other valuable adjustments to your images. We’ve received
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Adding sharpness and contrast to a photo can make a huge difference. With the right adjustments you can make your photos incredibly sharp without making them look fake or unnatural. In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at the various tools offered in Capture One Pro 10 to help you sharpen your photos. If
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Ask the nearest person what they think of sales people and I’ll bet they respond with comments akin to “slimy” or “con-men”. Sales has a bad rep, but a business without sales ceases to be a business. So how does this relate to photography? Well, unless you’re a high-flying photographer to the rich and famous,
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Do you know what kind of reputation your business has online? Did you know that good or bad, you can absolutely shape that reputation? Social media and online engagement – like responding to online reviews – is a two-way conversation, even if it may not seem that way. Every time you post an image or
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