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 […]
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How to Start Earning Money as a Photographer
Cover photo by Jakob Owens. See all of Jakob’s products here. Advancing from a hobbyist to a professional photographer involves a few important steps. The first and main step is figuring out how to start earning money. Finding paid opportunities can be extremely hard, especially considering the sheer amount of people pursuing photography these days. Determining […]
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 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 Sharpen Your Photos in Capture One Pro 10
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 […]
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 readingWhat are Video and Photo LUTs?
Editing videos can be challenging. There are a lot of different conditions to edit for in a video as opposed to editing a still frame. One way to help in your video editing process is with LUTs. LUTs are Look Up Tables that alter the Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) color values of an image […]
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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