Posts by Author: Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
Photographer used Photoshop skills to steal $16,000 from photography association
May 23, 2022
Alex Baker
An Australian astrophotographer has pleaded guilty to several counts of fraud and theft after stealing over $16,000 from the Professional Photographers’ Association of Queensland (PPAQ)…
Create magical portraits using just one umbrella with these 5 different set ups
May 20, 2022
Alex Baker
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with options when you first get started on artificial lighting. There seem to be so many tutorials out there for…
China accused of hiding body and camera evidence in first successful Everest climb cover-up
May 17, 2022
Alex Baker
Author Mark Synnott has asserted in his new book that China may have been involved in removing and hiding photographic evidence of the first-ever successful…
The Intersect tool in Lightroom: the ‘secret’ masking tool you definitely need to start using
May 17, 2022
Alex Baker
It’s no secret that Adobe Lightroom has become an incredibly powerful standalone photo editor in its own right over the last few updates. Often, I…
Burger King Germany’s stomach-churning photos are entirely real…but just for a day
May 16, 2022
Alex Baker
Currywurst and herring anyone? Or how about egg and banana? Burger King Germany’s latest ad campaign went viral after it caused confusion among non-German speakers….
The Xencelabs Medium Tablet with QuickKeys is actually better than a Wacom Intuos Pro and cheaper
May 13, 2022
Alex Baker
For quite a long time if you wanted a drawing tablet, Wacom was pretty much the only show in town. I’ve owned an Intuos Pro…
Which of these images was made using CGI and which is a photograph? Can you tell the difference?
May 12, 2022
Alex Baker
One of the above images was created using a camera and modern commercial lighting with familiar retouching techniques using software such as Photoshop. The other…
Watch Into the Mountains, a breathtaking timelapse ‘love letter’ to the mountains of Greece
May 11, 2022
Alex Baker
If you love timelapse films of landscapes and nature then you’re in for a treat. Into the Mountains is a short, experimental time-lapse documentary film…
Winners announced of the 2022 Royal Horticultural Photographic Competition
May 10, 2022
Alex Baker
If you’re mad about photographing plants and flowers then you’ll love this year’s winning entries from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Photographic competition. The competition celebrates the…
This is the highest resolution photo taken of the sun, ever
May 6, 2022
Alex Baker
An 83 megapixel image of the sun has been captured by the Solar Obiter in a joint project by the European Space Agency (ESA) and…