How To Find Light For Street Portraits Anytime Anywhere

If you enjoy taking casual photo walks without carrying lots of gear, you may sometimes find it challenging to find good light for street portraits. In this video from Adorama, Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge takes you for a walk and lets you find good light and compositions with him. He shares some useful tips for finding light anywhere, anytime, and they will help you raise your street portraits to a new level....

April 21, 2023 · 2 min · 302 words · Tina Sweeney

How To Make A Diy Camera Lens Desk Light

If you’re a photographer, chances are that someone has bought you a lens mug so far. Or maybe you already have a few of those (I know I do). We all know more than one lens mug is just too much – so why not repurpose it? In this video, Dave Knop a.k.a. Knoptop will show you how to turn a lens mug into a desk lamp. It’s simple to make and it looks pretty neat!...

April 21, 2023 · 2 min · 411 words · Dakota Huffman

How To Quickly Remove Unwanted Moving Objects From Your Photos

There are places where it’s difficult to take a photo without people or cars in the frame. Sometimes, you can tell people to move so you can take a photo. But in some overcrowded locations it’s simply impossible. And not to mention that you can’t do it if it’s cars messing with your composition. Thanks to some Photoshop magic, it’s possible to remove all the unwanted moving objects from a photo in a few seconds....

April 21, 2023 · 3 min · 484 words · Madison Griffin

How To Turn Edinburgh Into A Zoo In Photoshop

Lee Howell is an Award-Winning Commercial photographer and creative retoucher based in the UK, specialising in advertising, fashion and contemporary editorial portraiture. Here, he shows us how he created his image, Walk on the wildside. For this series I wanted to produce an ongoing body of work where the elements of the animal kingdom and classic city architecture are merged into the same imagery. Wildlife and animals have always appealed to me since I was a boy, as well as being a keen wildlife photographer before becoming a professional commercial photographer and retoucher, which has meant that they have often played a significant role within the imagery I produce....

April 21, 2023 · 8 min · 1704 words · Stephen Sellers

How To Use Speedlights When Shooting Live Music Performances

There seems to be a popular conception out there that you don’t use flash under any circumstances during musical performances. While good manners and etiquette might suggest that this should be the default position to take when not told otherwise, there are times when flash is allowed and can bring you some fantastic results that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve. Like, if you’re there specifically to photograph the band....

April 21, 2023 · 2 min · 358 words · Michelle Lopez
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