Adding the right mood to your photo can help truly convey the environment. This holds especially true for street photography. Depending on the time of day, location, weather, and overall feel your shot could be entirely different. Sometimes you’ll want to increase the heat and warmth in an image. Other times you’ll want to keep […]
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How to Load Film into a 35mm Camera
Let’s take it back, back to the old days. Where everything was hands-on, manual, and controlled by the operator. Film photography is not as common as it used to be, but it is still so different than digital photography. There are so many more options from start to finish and everything is more precise with […]
Continue readingHow to Create an HDR Effect in Adobe Lightroom
Photographing a high-contrast or backlit scene can be challenging. Do you expose for the shadows and blow out the highlights? Or do you expose for the highlights and lose everything in the shadows? It really just depends on your personal and artistic preference. Software like Lightroom is able to do a lot when it comes […]
Continue readingHow to Use Capture One Styles in Capture One Pro 10
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 […]
Continue readingHow to Use Hard Light for Dramatic Portraits
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 […]
Continue readingHow to Install and Use Luminar Presets
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. […]
Continue reading7 Ways to Use Shutter Speed Creatively in Nature Photography
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 […]
Continue readingHow to Install Lightroom Brushes
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 […]
Continue readingHow to Benefit From Using Your Photos on the Web
We live in a world filled with images, and there is little doubt that they have a big impact on how you see a product. Open any magazine and you’ll see how large the photographs of products are and how they fill the page. The internet is similar with big images of products almost everywhere. […]
Continue readingHow to Show Off Your Business With Stellar Photos
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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