Tutorials

Studio portraits: What modifier for what light?

May 10, 2016 Felix Barjou

Santa Claus has you spoiled this year by offering you the studio of your dreams?  A kit of flashes, a backdrop support and even more rolls…



10 Common Lightroom mistakes and how to avoid them

May 9, 2016 Udi Tirosh

With great power comes great responsibility, and with an image catalog comes well, lesser responsibility, but a responsibility nonetheless. And we’ve all done it, selective color,…



Cinematic Color Grading With Lightroom

May 4, 2016 JP Danko

We have posted a few really awesome cinematic color grading tutorials lately – but they all use Photoshop. Instead of jumping over to Photoshop, I…



Alex Watanabe: An Eggcellent display in lighting

Apr 30, 2016 Joseph Parry

Lighting is often a serious point of conversation; soft, hard, broad, short, high and low key etc… it can really go on extensively, so when…



A lesson in color grading

Apr 28, 2016 Joseph Parry

If Shakespeare were a photographer today, he’d have lost so many jobs to his “To tone or not to tone” predicament that in comparison you’d…



How to take ghosted portraits using a mix of gelled lights and strobes

Apr 19, 2016 Udi Tirosh

Some people prefer to use continuous light and some prefer strobes, but if you combine the two you get a certain kind of magic. The…



Fun With Color – Photography Gels and RGB Additive Color

Apr 19, 2016 JP Danko

I was recently at an interactive installation that had three theater lights – red green and blue shining on a white wall. The kids were…



What you need to know about realistic photo compositing and image manipulation – a primer

Apr 15, 2016 Aad Sommeling

Creating realistic photo composites or photo manipulation isn’t as hard as it looks. The steps you have to take to create a good composite are…



5 tips from Chase Jarvis on how to travel like a boss

Apr 14, 2016 Gannon Burgett

Commercial and adventure photographer Chase Jarvis has seen the world over many times, flying millions of miles throughout his career. It would make sense then,…



How a photo shoot happens on the streets of NYC from start to finish

Apr 13, 2016 John Aldred

Watch and learn as fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski takes us on a journey from concept to completion of a photo shoot on the streets of New…