Tutorials

How to shoot dramatic food photography with cheap used camera gear

Apr 4, 2020 John Aldred

Photography has been in the digital age long enough now that even a used $200 or less DSLR can produce some pretty amazing photography –…



How to light and shoot portraits of yourself or your family in your home

Apr 3, 2020 John Aldred

There are lots of videos out there on lighting and shooting portraits, but they often show huge studios, with the kind of space that no…



How to change the eye color in Lightroom in two steps

Apr 3, 2020 Dunja Đuđić

For changing the color of the eyes in portraits, most of us would most likely use Photoshop. But have you tried doing it in Lightroom?…



How to turn your digital photos into cyanotype prints

Mar 31, 2020 Dunja Đuđić

If you’d like to try interesting photography experiments, when is a better time than now? If you’ve always wanted to try making cyanotypes, Mathieu Stern…



This is how Photoshop’s “Divide” blend mode works and how to use it to remove colour casts

Mar 30, 2020 John Aldred

Photoshop has a whole bunch of different blend modes but knowing what they all do… Well, even many of the most advanced Photoshop users don’t…



How to shoot and stitch a Milky Way panorama in Lightroom

Mar 28, 2020 Ole Henrik Skjelstad

In this article, I will share how I shot a Milky Way panorama, and how I later stitched the images in Lightroom. But, first some…



Advice on handling contract cancellations for photographers

Mar 27, 2020 Allen Murabayashi

As we go through this unprecedented time together, our team at PhotoShelter is committed to providing resources, advice and inspiration for the photography community. Follow us…



For an in-home photography challenge that can keep you busy for hours, try Egg 2.0

Mar 25, 2020 John Aldred

Photographing eggs is something Joe Edelman’s become quite well known for, and something he often recommends. 10 years ago, he made a video specifically about…



Learn how to read your camera’s histogram… through music?

Mar 24, 2020 John Aldred

I thought this was quite a weird and odd video at first. It wasn’t until I was a little while in that I finally realised…



How to fight boredom using photography during isolation

Mar 24, 2020 John Aldred

Being stuck at home when you don’t want to be locked indoors just sucks. For photographers who can no longer head out to photograph their…