Using filters of any kind these days is rarer than in the past, but for landscape photographers specifically, it is still an integral part of the process for those who prefer to get things right in camera.
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How to Use an Arduino to Trigger a Flash With Sound
The high-speed class at Rochester Institute of Technology learns Arduino programming and some simple circuits as an introduction on triggering high-speed flashes in complicated situations. petapixel.com »
2024-10-15 19:43
How to Use the Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop contains a very broad and deep set of tools for making edits and adjustments to images. While there is little limitation to what can be achieved using the native tools available in Photoshop for more than two decades, they may not be as intuitive and user-friendly to photographers who have spent most of their time editing raw images in Lightroom. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-02-06 21:26
How to Use Wedding Photography Flash in a Way That Looks Natural
Using flash in your wedding photography can take your work to the next level. It can look more professional and dynamic. Additionally, there are a variety of scenarios when flash makes certain things possible that wouldn’t be if you’re relying on natural light. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-05-25 21:58
How to use ChatGPT to create Film styles for your Sony camera!
As you know I am currently experimenting with AI tools and sharing my results and findings on Youtube (subscribe here) and Instagram (join here). My ultimate goal is to understand how AI can be a danger or a benefit for us photographers. sonyalpharumors.com »
2023-03-31 09:30
How to Use a Graduated ND Filter in Landscape Photography
In landscape photography, it is helpful to have three specific lens filters in your camera bag. These are the circular polarizer (CPL) filter, the neutral density (ND) filter, and the graduated neutral density filter (GND). [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-03-20 23:08
How to Use Paper as a Photo Backdrop to Keep Costs Down
As a product photographer, I use paper in various different ways as a background for still-life photos to keep costs down for creative shooting. In this article, I'll show you how I do it and how you can do it too. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-03-06 23:16
How to Use DALL-E to Generate AI Images from Text
DALL-E is the AI image generation app that shocked the world by creating high-quality portraits and artistic paintings without using a camera, film, canvas, or brush. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-03-01 21:41
How to Use a Light Meter in Photography
For decades, there’s a piece of gear that I’ve always had in my camera bag. This would be a handheld light meter. I feel I’m in the minority these days by still using a handheld light meter and that’s too bad this is so. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-19 21:28
How to Use BeReal: A Guide to the Hit Photo Sharing App
BeReal is a new social media network that puts a focus on authenticity. Others have made similar claims but this goal has proven difficult to achieve. This guide will look at what BeReal is and how to use it. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-22 21:04
How to Use a Color Checker for Perfect Color in Photos
It will come as shock to no one that digital cameras are as complex as the manufacturing processes that make them. Thanks to the wizardry of Steven Sasson, our photographic pursuits are inextricably linked to the cold mass of integrated circuits, photovoltaic diodes, and the other discrete components that make up our modern tools. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-11 23:07
How to Use Color Gels for Outdoor Portraits
You don’t often see photographers using gels outdoors in natural light, but why? I think one of the core reasons you don’t see too many natural light gel shots, is that you need a lot of power and control from your lights to make gels visible in daylight. Whenever we’re outside during the daytime, sunlight […] petapixel.com »
2021-10-07 18:23
How to Use Twitter as a Photographer: Here’s Some Expert Advice
Social media is a vital part of how a business promotes itself, and having a wide variety of social media tools at your disposal is important. While you can link all your social media accounts together to create one post appearing on all of them, this strategy ignores unique opportunities each platform offers to its […] petapixel.com »
2021-10-05 21:33
How to Use the Luminosity Mask in Lightroom Classic
The Luminosity Mask is a really great tool to use when it comes to retouching landscape, cityscape as well as portrait. It gives you more freedom when you use different tools in Lightroom and you will see it is awesome! Now let me show you how it works. I did a basic retouching on this […] petapixel.com »
2021-08-24 19:42
How to Use Light Painting to Capture Dramatic Car Photography
Automotive photographer Dave Cox (AKA ShootingDave) recently put together a handy step-by-step tutorial that shows you exactly how he uses light painting to capture dramatic car photos when working in a tight space like a workshop. petapixel.com »
2020-07-02 22:38
How to use color in commercial photography
These are our best tips and tricks for using the color wheel and color theory to boost your commercial photography sales potential. The post How to use color in commercial photography appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »
2020-06-15 14:30
How to use balance in photography
A balanced image is any image with two sides of the same or similar weight, so that the eye is drawn to both sides equally. The post How to use balance in photography appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »
2020-06-05 14:30
How to Use a Waveform Monitor for Better, Faster Photo Editing
Thanks to everyone who read my previous article on my process as a TV show set photographer, and all of you who got in touch with questions and comments. People had a range of questions, especially about how I use a waveform monitor, so I’ll make this a fairly wide-ranging post to try and answer […] petapixel.com »
2020-04-23 21:05
How to Use the ‘Divide’ Blend Mode to Instantly Remove Any Color Cast
Unmesh Dinda of PIXimperfect has put together a brilliant educational video on the oft-confusing Divide blend mode in Photoshop. In this tutorial he’ll show you how to use it to remove any color cast, before diving into the fascinating mathematics behind this useful tool. petapixel.com »
2020-03-30 23:35
How I Use My GoPro Cameras for Landscape and Travel Photography
As a landscape and travel photographer with more than a decade of experience, I always found myself carrying a ton of gear. With huge wide-angle and telephoto lenses, multiple DSLR camera bodies, heavy-duty tripods, and occasionally drones in my backpack, my mobility while trekking to locations was often limited. However, things changed dramatically in 2016 […] petapixel.com »
2020-01-08 21:44
How to Use Google Earth for Extremely Detailed Location Scouting
There are a lot of great location scouting tools out there. But while PhotoPills and The Photographer’s Ephemeris do an amazing job and are packed full of useful features, photographer Tony Northrup explains why he prefers to use something else that’s completely free: Google Earth. petapixel.com »
2019-09-23 19:01
How to Use a Normal Camera and Photoshop to See Heat
Here’s a 6-minute video by photographer Kelly Hofer of Theory of Curiosity on Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS), a technique that lets you shoot photos and videos of heat using an ordinary camera and Photoshop. petapixel.com »
2019-01-07 20:35
How to Use the World’s Largest Polaroid Camera
Back in its heyday, Polaroid made seven 20×24-inch instant cameras, and only six of them are known to exist today. Marco Christian Krenn of Analog Things recently paid a visit to the camera found at Supersense in Vienna. petapixel.com »
2018-11-13 23:09
How to Use Your Camera to Calculate the Speed of Earth’s Spin
Earth is spinning… and fast! It was during my first nights in astrophotography that it became very concrete for me. By taking pictures of the stars, one quickly obtains a change of star physiognomy that confirms the rotation of the earth. petapixel.com »
2018-10-31 18:15
How to Use Negative Space to Create Interesting Minimalist Photos
Ever felt like experimenting with negative space and minimalist photography? It can come in nifty for your photography projects, so it's a trick worth knowing how to pull off. All you need to get started are a big sheet of white board paper, a coffee cup, and some coffee (or similarly-colored liquid). thephoblographer.com »
2018-10-09 10:00
How to Use a Phone Screen for Magical Portraits
Wedding photographers are always looking to take creative, novel portraits and a quick, simple trick is often sitting right in their pocket. By using a phone screen as a reflective surface, it is possible to cover up unsightly elements, add intrigue, and make an image that much more interesting. Here’s how it works: 1. Start […] petapixel.com »
2018-06-07 19:20
How to Use Your Camera In the Coldest Places on Earth
When you take your camera to some of the coldest places on Earth, you’ll face a unique set of challenges that most photographers never have to worry about. Here’s an interesting 9-minute video in which filmmaker and photographer Anthony Powell shares some of his top tips for shooting in the extreme cold. Powell has been […] petapixel.com »
2018-05-05 22:34
How to Use a Projector as a Lighting Tool for Creative Portraits
In my opinion, there’s an extra layer of believability — a tangibility, if you will — to using practical effects as opposed to relying heavily on post-production. Post work is limited by the breadth (or lack thereof) of imagination, which is why I try to get as much as I can in-camera. The first time […] petapixel.com »
2018-01-22 20:16
How to Use the Foreground to Create Depth in Landscape Photos
Sometimes a beautiful landscape scene doesn’t look as good on camera as it did to your eye, but that’s because translating a 3-dimensional scene into a 2-dimensional space is challenging. petapixel.com »
2017-10-24 22:08
How to Use a Bathroom as a Softbox For Beautifully Lit Portraits
Need to take portraits and don’t have access to a lighting kit? No worries – this 4-minute video from Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens will show you how you can turn a bathroom – or any room for that matter – into a softbox to create beautiful soft light. As Morgan explains, a […] petapixel.com »
2017-09-09 18:03
How to Use Local Dodging and Burning For Beauty Retouching in Photoshop
Subtle corrective dodging and burning can go a long way to improve the appearance of skin by smoothing the tonal transitions created by shadows. This 30-minute tutorial from photographer Chris Knight demonstrates the effectiveness of the technique from start to finish. petapixel.com »
2017-07-20 22:20
How to Use Extended Low ISO for Cleaner Photos
Does your camera have an Extended ISO function? Using it can help you produce less noisy images than the base native ISO of your camera. Here’s a 4-minute video tutorial explaining this. Many photographers ignore the extended ISO range on their cameras, or don’t fully understand how it works. In this quick tip, Tony Northrup […] petapixel.com »
2017-05-24 17:45
How to Use a Cookie Sheet and a Wood Stump to Shoot Better iPhone Photos
Photographer and DP Peter McKinnon is not an “iPhoneographer”, but that hasn’t stopped some of his fans from asking for tips on taking better smartphone photos. Since he’s not one to disappoint, he created this useful tutorial to appease the smartphone shutterbugs out there. petapixel.com »
2017-01-12 01:01
How to Use Composition Templates to Improve Your Photography
When doing photography in general, and in my case travel photography, the use of a photography template can be very beneficial and help improve the overall performance. By photography template I mean pre-defined, well-known and efficient photography composition templates that are recurrent and relevant in photography, and fit popular “good taste”. Knowing your usual and […] petapixel.com »
2017-01-10 22:25
How I Use Street Photography To Become a Better Food Photographer
Hi, I’m Xavier, a food photographer based in Brighton, U. K. This will be my 3rd year as a full time professional photographer. I’m a freelancer which means I work for and with many different clients in all sorts of projects. thephoblographer.com »
2017-01-10 14:02
How to Use a Diopter Lens as a Cheap Macro Lens Alternative
If you are not doing a lot of macro photography, purchasing a dedicated macro lens may be costly ($200 to $500). We found this Youtube video by MetaTaylor showing the use of a diopter lens as a much cheaper yet feasible alternative for close up shooting purposes. thephoblographer.com »
2016-12-22 20:05
How to Use ‘Double Masking’ for More Natural HDR Blending in Photoshop
If you want ultimate control over your High Dynamic Range images, manual blending is still the way to go. But creating a perfectly blended image from two or more exposures using layer masks can be challenging. petapixel.com »
2016-09-26 20:40
15+ Creative Photographers Who Know How To Use Shadows
Shadows are a brilliant way to create striking photographs. They're free, they're everywhere, and there's no limit to what you can do with them. boredpanda.com »
2016-09-21 10:24
A 2-Minute Primer on How to Use a Color Checker
If you’ve never used an X-Rite ColorChecker Passport before, this quick-and-dirty primer by photographer Jeff Rojas is a great place to start. Rojas, a fashion and portrait photographer based in New York, advises that you always use your ColorChecker, especially when shooting portraits. petapixel.com »
2016-09-08 21:33
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Blending Modes in Photoshop: A Comprehensive Guide
Photoshop can feel infinite. It’s a lot like a high-tech espresso machine or a sports car: you don’t have to use all of its features for it to be functional, but when you can, it’s a powerful tool. [Read More]
How to Use the Camera Raw Filter in Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop contains a very broad and deep set of tools for making edits and adjustments to images. While there is little limitation to what can be achieved using the native tools available in Photoshop for more than two decades, they may not be as intuitive and user-friendly to photographers who have spent most of their time editing raw images in Lightroom. [Read More]
Unlocking the Power of Photoshop Levels for Photography
Levels often seems like a boring old tool in photo-editing programs. Maybe you’d use it to quickly fine-tune contrast by dragging the left and right sliders inwards.
How to Shoot the Busiest Street Scenes in Asia
Shooting the busiest scenes we encounter while traveling in Asia can be very challenging. After 15 years of running photography tours and teaching in the area, I know that busy markets and streets can either be a photography heaven or a nightmare. [Read More]
How To Take Amazing Photos With The DJI Mini 3 Pro (and 4 Pro)
It’s been a while since my last article on drone photography (2019 to be precise). Since then I’ve used lots of DJI drones. Earlier this year I bought a Mini 3 Pro to see if this could potentially replace bigger drones for my travels.
How to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPhone
It's a common problem — dozens of nearly identical photos on your iPhone, eating up your storage and making it difficult to find what you're looking for. How does this happen, and, more importantly, how can you delete or merge those duplicate photos? [Read More]
What is Rim Lighting and How to Use It for Portrait Photos
In this article, we are going to take a look at rim lighting. As you might guess, rim lighting is used to light a portion of the edge of your subject. While it is most often used as part of a multi-light setup, it can be used on its own for dramatic effect. [Read More]