With all the tools available today to retouch digital portraits, it’s easy for us to go way overboard with editing on photos. We make a few adjustments here and there, then make a few more, and before we know it, the photo looks completely different – sometimes good, and sometimes, well, not so good. I’ve [...]
In this post, Steve Berardi from the PhotoNaturalist explains why sometimes close-up photos are better from far away. When you think of close-up photography, you probably think of getting in close with a macro lens. After all, it’s called “close-up” photography, right? Although you can certainly create some awesome images when you’re up close to [...]
A Guest Post by Prita Sujudi For an amateur who had just been introduced to photography after having had two kids of seven and six year olds, I often find travel photography can be very challenging as I never had the choice but to carry both camera and kids! But for the love of travel [...]
A Guest Post by Steph Tan. Among the many different photo shoots one can do, I’ve always considered newborn photography as one of the most challenging. Having great equipment and great technical know-how is never enough. For me, this is the genre of photography where the human touch is most important. Here are a few [...]
A Guest Post by Gemma Taylor. In my experience, wedding photos edited to create a vintage-feel are becoming increasingly popular with couples, so dabbling in some vintage action can provide you with an attractive addition to your wedding package. So here are my tips for using some subtle post-production to create an instant timeless feel. [...]
It’s been almost 10 months since I bought my first DSLR. The days so far were both beautiful and challenging as well as immensely educational. The time I spent juggling with my camera have given me some insight into the intricacies of this business. Given below are a few realizations I had in the last [...]
A Guest Post by Scott Williams. Post processing is an important part of a photographer’s work and can be time consuming and overwhelming. The more time you spend behind a computer post processing, the less time you have to spend behind the camera. Luckily there are things you can do to streamline your post processing. [...]
Whenever I am lecturing, or speaking with other photographers, I am always trying to teach them just how powerful Lightroom 3 truly is. In fact, approximately 98% of the photos that we deliver to clients in our wedding photography studio, Lin and Jirsa, have only been edited in Lightroom. In this Lightroom tutorial, I will [...]
A Guest post by Jacinda Setiawan This is one of my favorite compositional techniques: it is something I do a lot. I think it’s becoming a signature part of my style. I didn’t realize this until a photographer friend showed me a photo he had taken (utilizing this technique) and showed it to me saying it [...]
A Guest Post by Andrew S Gibson who’s new eBook – Andes – has recently been launched on Craft and Vision (for just $5). There’s one way to get your photos published in photography magazines that I didn’t mention in my previous post, and that is to write an article accompanied by your photos. There [...]
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