Monday, 23 June 2014

Using Off-camera Flash to Fix Lighting Problems for Outdoor Portraits





When you’re taking pictures of family and friends outdoors, you are often not in control of the light, and that can lead to poor portraits.
A few of the possible problems include:

Raccoon eyes – deep shadows in the eye sockets (and other the nose) caused by bright overhead sunlight...
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Sunday, 22 June 2014

Getting Your Foot in the Door as a Freelance Assignment Photographer





One of the biggest changes photography has seen over the last 10 years is in photojournalism and documentary photography. Some will see this change as good while others will see this change as bad. The improvements made to consumer DSLR cameras, lenses and editing software have opened the doors...
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Overview of Some of the New Features of Photoshop CC June 2014




Recently Adobe announced their newest incarnation of their flagship product, Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC). Some of the new things look really interesting and I can see a lot of applications for them.
In this video French photographer Serge Ramelli goes over some of the new features that you may...
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Saturday, 21 June 2014

Thecus N2560 NAS storage for photographers – review




This will be an overview of the N2560 and also a little bit of practical advice for people that have a computer with almost zero disk space remaining, and no clue what to do about it!
Let’s start with the Thecus N2560 network attached storage (NAS) that we were sent to try out.
Thecus ...
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5 Creative Ways to Process Infrared Photographs in Photoshop




Digital cameras have made the process of infrared photography relatively simple and very accessible, compared to the days of shooting with infrared film. No darkroom is required and all you need to get started is an infrared filter on your lens (click through to read my article on How to do ...
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Friday, 20 June 2014

Weekly Photography Challenge Outside the Box Creativity




This time around the weekly photography challenge is a little bit different than our usual topics. This one is pretty wide opened because I want you to get out there and get crazy creative!

By Holger Ejleby

If that is you – get out of there and try something different! Outside the box ...
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A Set of Imaginative Images to Spark Your Creativity




This week’s theme seems to be all about sparking up the fires of creativity. A few articles this week have touched on this theme including:

Creative Reasons to use Intentional Camera Movement
Don’t Know What to Shoot? These 4 Photography Exercises Will Keep You Motivated
5 Ways To...
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