Advertisements In my first compositing tips post I talked a bit about how lighting is everything. This still applies, and always will. When choosing what background to use for a composite, pretty much nothing is more important than finding (or shooting) an image that compliments the lighting of your subject. The. Lighting. Must. Match. Last time we talked about paying attention to what direction the light is coming from, but we didn’t go into any detail about the color of the light....

Earlier this week, actress Rumer Willis very publicly called out photographers Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa of Williams and Hirakawa on Instagram for allegedly over-editing her facial features in a photo for Vanity Fair. Now, the photographers have spoken out against the criticism saying no unnecessary post-processing was done to the photograph. To catch you up on the saga, Willis brought attention to the allegedly manipulated image via the below Instagram post....

My wife, Vicki, and I are full-time portrait and wedding photographers. When we aren’t shooting these things, we like creating dramatic images of people in fantastic surroundings. One of our favorite locations to photograph is the desert Southwest of the United States. We have made many trips there in the past and always have a great time photographing models in some of the unique locations to be found there. We just recently returned from a trip photographing four models in and around Moab, Utah....

People seem to have been switching over to the Sony A7RIII faster than I can blink. I’ve seen quite a few switching from both Nikon and Canon since its announcement. But it seems there’s one area where Sony still falls somewhat short. Weather sealing. It’s always been their Achilles heel, but people had been hoping it’s improved with the A7RIII. As this weather sealing test from Imaging Resource shows, it hasn’t....

The golden ratio is a mathematical principle that you might also hear referred to as the golden mean, the golden section, the golden spiral, divine proportion, or Phi. Phi, a bit like Pi, is an irrational number. It is valued at approximately 1.618. As a ratio, it would be expressed as 1:1.618. A rectangle that conforms to the golden ratio would have shorter sides equivalent to 1 and longer sides equivalent to 1....