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18:24

Tweak Your Curves for Another Way to Save Your Highlights

Lightroom has many adjustments and in general, they work reasonably well. I bet the most widely used sliders are the Highlights and the Shadows sliders. There seems to be a general tendency to make sure that the highlights are not blown and the shadows are not blocked. I would like to share with you some […]

22:41

Photographers, Here’s a Quick and Free Way to Improve Your SEO

Backlinks are a pillar of SEO. As photographers, we have a unique niche in to getting backlinks. Websites need images for their pages, we have images, and some of these websites might be using your images and mentioning your business, but not linking to your website.

17:48

Let’s Slow Things Down and Think About the Essential

As a celebrity portrait photographer and street artist, I am used to being quick when it come to the execution of photography. I recently made a trip to Kolkata in India for a street art project, but while there, I took the time to do street portraits. I walked up to people and asked to […]

21:08

Portrait Mode: The End of Compact Cameras?

It seems like having dual cameras on your phone has become almost the norm nowadays, but many people don’t even know that they are there, let alone why. However, I believe that Portrait Mode is an incredible tool for the modern photographer to promote themselves — particularly on Instagram. Portrait Mode is what Apple calls […]

20:39

Beware: What You Wear Can Affect the Portraits You Shoot

Here’s an interesting portraiture tip you may not have considered before: what you wear as a photographer can affect how your portraits turn out due to the reflected light. That’s what’s shown in this simple 43-second video by the Koldunov Brothers.

21:51

How to Customize the ‘Before’ View in Lightroom

In Lightroom, the backslash key can be used in the Develop module to toggle the Before/After view. But you can actually do more: here’s a 50-second video that shows you how to customize which “Before” view is shown.

18:50

PSA: Deleting Old Lightroom Data Can Clear Up a TON of Space

Photos take up a lot of storage space. That’s just something that us photographers have to deal with. That said, there’s no reason to waste space on our computers. So here’s a tip: deleting old, unneeded Lightroom data can clear up a ton of space.

01:43

Photoshop Tip: How to Crop & Resize a Photo to Exact Dimensions in One Step

Cropping a photo to exact dimensions in Photoshop can be a real pain, but there’s actually an easy one-step solution built right into the program. This quick tip comes from photographer and educator Phil Steele of Steele Training, a master whose more basic photography tips have been popular on PetaPixel in the past. In this […]

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20:03

Rule of Thirds in Photography: A Complete Guide

The rule of thirds is widely considered to be one of the most important first techniques you can learn to create better compositions and help you progress from “taking pictures” to “making photographs.” [Read More]

20:37

Understanding Depth of Field… and Busting the Myth

We all know that reducing aperture increases depth of field, but how much does that help? Here are some facts about depth of field. To double the depth of field you can do any of the following: 1. Double the f-number (two stops, such as f4 to f8) 2. Reduce the lens focal length to […]

23:01

How to Use Your Phone as a Tiny LED Panel for Light Painting and Portraits

Here’s a simple, maybe even obvious, run-and-gun lighting tip for beginners from the YouTube Channel Run N Gun. If you find yourself using your smartphone for portrait lighting in a pinch, don’t turn it around and use the flashlight—download an app or solid color image instead, and use your phone’s display as a small LED […]

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20:46

Why You Should Invest in Unique Props to Shoot Portraits That Stand Out

We live in a world where everyone has access to a camera in some form or another, and the content we create is often viewed through a phone screen. So it's no surprise that so many people have learned how to take and edit cool photos that will get them likes on Instagram. [Read More]

19:00

Look Beyond the Softbox to Spice Up Your Portrait Lighting

What kind of lighting do you use as a portrait photographer? Softboxes are great and popular, but that also makes them potentially overused and boring. If you want to spice up your portrait lighting, you can look into expanding your toolbox beyond the softbox and into other kinds of lighting. Why You SHOULD Use a […]

20:00

A Bright Idea for Subject Placement in Portrait Photos

With careful composition and editing techniques, you can take your portrait game to the next level. In this video, I’ll show how you can level up your portraits with this one simple tip. Before we begin, be sure to download the exercise file here and follow along as I edit. What is the Tip? The […]

20:48

Overcome Your Fear of Going Above ISO 100 in Landscape Photography

A common misconception among beginning landscape photographers is that when using a tripod, one should stay at ISO 100 for the best resulting photos. Photographer Mark Denney made this 10-minute video dispelling the myth and showing examples of when that’s not true.

18:22

3 Basic Lightroom Editing Shortcuts for Cropping Photos

Cropping is the one editing function that we pretty much apply to almost every photograph that passes through Lightroom. Effective cropping is critically important for composition, setting the mood, and even optimizing photos for sharing on social media.

20:00

5 Homebrew Camera Hacks in 1 Minute

Got a minute? That’s all you’ll need. Take a break from infinite scrolling through Instagram and listen up, because South African photographer Sheldon Evans can teach you 5 fun homebrew camera hacks in the same amount of time it takes you to read this post.