Lights, camera, action. Photography is often referred to as painting with light, and one of the more enjoyable ways to experiment with photography is to grab your camera and capture the lights of the night.
Halloween offers a unique opportunity to have fun photographing the lights and colors of the season while honing your nighttime skills.
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Shooting indoors is always a challenge unless you have a professional lighting setup with you. The light is usually low, so it’s hard to get any kind of depth of field.
Lightbulbs inside of lamps tend to glow orange, while overhead florescent lights show up on the greenish side, and aren’t very pretty. So what do you do? Let your light guide you.
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Speeding up your post processing workflow will help you to increase productivity and spend more time on shooting. For Lightroom users, making use of developed presets can be a great way to reduce the amount of time you spend in Lightroom.
When it comes to Lightroom presets, you can create your own or use the ones created by others. There are a lot of Lightroom presets available around the web, both free and paid ones.
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When I first bought my little Canon AE1 back in 1993 and started shooting, I couldn’t afford a flash.
I shot everything in natural light, and I think I made every mistake known to mankind, so for those who would like to learn from my mistakes, this one’s for you!!
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This week, when my fearless leader, Photodoto Head Honcho Nancy Young, asked me to write a story on shooting Halloween, I must admit that I kind of had a freak out attack. I’m just not a Halloween person. I mean, bobbing for apples? Totally unsanitary. Haunted houses? They’re SCARY.
But of course I take pictures of my children in their costumes…they cost too much for that single-use-two-hour- frenzy-in-the-dark-when-no-one-even-sees-their-costumes not to!!
… Continue reading Tips, Tricks and Treats for Your Halloween Photos
Adobe Lightroom is one of the most popular options for photo editing and with great reason. Thanks to a number of various Lightroom features, photographers may decrease the time spent processing and increase efficiency. Moreover, one of the greatest time-saving features of Lightroom is the ability to save your actions, which means creating presets.
In this article, I’d like to share with you up-to-date Lightroom tutorials to enhance your images.
… Continue reading 25+ Helpful & Free Lightroom Tutorials to Post-Process Like a Pro
There are a lot of wedding photographers, or just amateurs who shoot weddings, but there are also many who would like to brush up their photography skills. Along with the right skills, it would be awesome if photographers are able to give some tips to their clients on floral arrangements, invitation designs, wedding dress ideas, wedding color palettes, poses and more.
That’s why I drew up this list of top 10 wedding photography blogs that rock. You’ll find some useful tips and trick on how to succeed in the wedding photography business, how to properly communicate with clients, and tons of inspiration in the form of engagement sessions and wedding photographs from all over the globe.
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Understanding light is a concept that makes a good photographer, and an even greater skill to master is knowing how to recreate different light effects in the studio .
Using lighting accessories like off-camera flashes or strobes, and studying how to trigger them from a different position than on top of the camera, will give an overall different aesthetic to your photographs.
… Continue reading 6 Main Studio Lighting Methods to Master for Your Portraits
Behance is an awesome place to find creative photography portfolios and to draw inspiration from. But with so many of them to browse through, it’s really hard to find a place to start. That’s why I’ve collected 20 awe-inspiring photographers to follow on Behance.
Here you’ll find fabulous fashion photography and breathtaking landscape shots. Scroll down to enjoy these brilliant photography efforts that are worthy to both admire and copy.
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Photo editing has never been so easy as it is these days. The web offers you tons of Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions to add some cool effects to your images by pressing just one button! Lightroom presets are a fantastic tool that can help to automate your workflow and to add creativity to your photo library, no matter if you’re a newbie or experienced professional.
If you decide to play around with Lightroom presets, however, you don’t feel like spending hundreds of dollars purchasing them or dozens of hours developing them. I’d like to offer you a quick and simple solution – check out our $9.99 Photodoto Lightroom presets that are worth every cent you spend on them!
… Continue reading Lightroom Presets That You Have to Have at Any Cost
