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The Secret to Creating Your Own Signature Photo Look in Lightroom
Have you ever scrolled through a professional photographer's Instagram account? If you're reading this article, I'm gonna guess that you're interested in photography, and I'm gonna take that guess one step further and assume that, yes, you have scrolled through the Instagram accounts of a number of professional photographers. And when you did, you probably noticed something: all of there photos have a uniform look to them. I used to scroll through these Instagram accounts and wonder how they achieved this. Each photo was different, yet there was something that gave them all a similar feel.
By Reese Marie5 years ago in Photography
the final edit
I wasn’t like the other girls. I never edited my photos. I knew my friends and all their friends would spend hours before posting—filling out their top lips, blurring pimples, and photoshopping out the cigarettes they were holding—but not me. And not because I was confident, but because I was so painfully insecure that I did not want to even make an attempt to alter pictures in any way in fear of someone noticing…because if someone notices…then not only do they know you’re insecure about posting, but also terrible at doing so. This was not a risk worth taking for me. Photography was improving at a pace I couldn’t keep up with, and it was my freshman year of college, so my high school siblings were already at risk of being cooler than me. I was still primarily using Facebook, and my sister had given up trying to get me to understand Instagram. She once told me that I’m embarrassing myself by getting under thirty likes and that I should probably delete anything that doesn’t hit the mark. I rarely hit thirty, and when I did, it was usually thanks to my little sister telling all her friends that I had posted and they should go like it. Usually, any given post would have a like or two from people my age, and the comments would be flooded with heart eye emojis from thirteen year olds.
By king virginia5 years ago in Photography
Architecture, Real Estate, and Landscape Photo Editing Tips and Tricks
When I was about halfway through high school, I found myself in need of a job above and beyond the carwashing and lawn mowing I'd been offering for years. As it so happened, I found a gig that paid ok, could be done from home, and worked to some of my strengths - I became a photo editor for a photographer specializing in real estate and architecture. Back when I was spending hours a week straightening horizons, editing lens dust out of the sky, and trying to hide personal belongings that had snuck into the carefully staged shots, I wish I'd had an article like this one to help me out. Whether you're just handling the editing, are trying to kickstart your own photography business, or even just want to take pictures of funky buildings for fun, I've teamed up with that very same photographer, the talented Sheila Say, to bring you the insights and hacks she uses every day to satisfy realtors and magazines alike.
By Rio Breakell5 years ago in Photography
Simple Edits on Lightroom
Photo editing is an art medium itself, where images can be rendered and turned into something completely different from the original shot. I admire the creativity and skill put into photo processing, and everyone has their own editing style.
By Joanna5 years ago in Photography
Eye of the Beholder
I’ve never owned a "nice camera." The priciest one was a Nikon Coolpix for around 100 bucks in 2009. For a long time, I felt like the kind of camera you were using determined if you were a photographer or not; and, yes, in the time before smartphones, this was considerably true. However, I have always loved taking photos. And, thanks to the shifting times and technologies, more people like myself have the opportunity to become a skillful photographer and a master editor.
By Brandye Kemp5 years ago in Photography
Sadness through the pandemic
As an amateur photographer I’m still learning a lot about my Nikon camera, lighting, and editing. Quite frankly, I feel more comfortable capturing moments in my phone than in my professional camera. Originally, I was going to breakdown the process of a fashion photo I took of a good friend of mine. I used my Nikon D600, had a rustic background and quite frankly my friend looked like a Calvin Klein ad. However, as I was selecting the pictures, I scrolled to one I took a few weeks ago that really made an impact on me. Just like any artist, a photographer needs inspiration to capture moments in time and make them beautiful. Although I try to do this with my camera, sometimes my phone traps moments that are breathtaking.
By Mario Garnica jr5 years ago in Photography
Witch Doctor!
This is a plague doctor/Witch doctor, photoshoot I did back in september of 2020. The purpose was to create a horror fantasy cosplay look for the "plague doctor skull mask" I made for my on line store. (The wardrobe was also designed by myself.) I've worked with this model on a few other photoshoots. So I knew she would be excited to come on board. First we did a set with her wearing the plague doctor mask. Then did another set to highlight her face as well as the wardrobe and props. The camera that was used was a Sony a7s with 24, 35 and 100mm rokinon lenses. We shot inside Cineview studios in st. petersburg, florida. Chris Jackson, (The owner of the studio) set up the lighting for us.
By Karl Huber5 years ago in Photography
A Great Success vs. Greatly Successful
Having worked in the fashion industry for years, one of the core values of our company was to "do more with less..."; this gave opportunities for lots of cross-training and my interest surrounded work on the opposite side of the lens moving forward. From Betsy Johnson to Tommy Hilfigure, I was given tasks to capture clothes in new ways, thinking outside of the perverbial box.
By S.C. Clark5 years ago in Photography
Candle In The Wind
Perfect lighting is like a candle in the wind, that is why the most brilliant shots are the ones that reflect the light from within. The aura that every one of us projects; unique specifically to ourselves. Photography to me, is always about enhancing what is already there. So you want to be both deliberate and in the moment. Make sure the model’s shirt isn’t sloppily splayed, or the hair frames their face shape suitably.
By Atlas Quest5 years ago in Photography
Bringing Artistry to Photography
As a professional photographer of 35 years, I have spent plenty of time in a darkroom watching the magic of seeing an image come up as I would take a sheet of photo sensitive paper, expose it to light in an enlarger, then move that sheet through various chemical steps in the developing process. As always, things change. Mid-career, thousands of images later, the digital age leapt forward; so I packed up my darkroom equipment for storage. Instead of hours in the darkroom, I spent my time learning some of the premiere photo programs like Photoshop and Lightroom, which I now currently use to produce my final photos. The digital age was necessary for many reasons; including eliminating the toxicity of chemicals in photo processing, making way for faster work turn-around times, and simply giving more people access to learning photography.
By Kathleen Thompson5 years ago in Photography
