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Product Photos in a Hurry and on a Budget
Let’s face it, we’re in the age of the side hustle and the gig economy, and that’s unlikely to change any time soon. If you’re selling anything, anywhere, the better your photos are, the more likely you are to make a sale. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good picture could be worth a thousand sales. Or just that one sale that means the difference between eating ramen noodles all week and a cart full of groceries.
By Maria Shimizu Christensen5 years ago in Photography
Game-Changing Photo Editing Tutorial For Social Media
It can be hard to compose the perfect photo. Even when we think we’ve snapped a great picture, there are always enhancements that can further accentuate our natural skills. Should I adjust the exposure? Should I photoshop this blemish? Should I be hyper-vigilant about crafting the perfect picture? Is this really a photograph worth sharing?
By Alexis Dent5 years ago in Photography
A Grandma's Gentle Guide to Make Photos Look Better
So, we've FINALLY learned how to save a picture or photo on our desktop (for later posting onto Facebook, or to send in a text or email) without asking our children or grandchildren for help… Bravo for us! If you’re fairly computer illiterate, like me; now, you wish you knew how to make those pictures look better. But every time we try to learn how; the instructions we're given sound like they’re in a foreign language. Well, don’t despair. After much trial and error, I’ve finally figured out the basics, and I will share what I’ve learned with you, in this step-by-step article (for users of Apple Macintosh Desktop computers). Don’t worry, I’m not going to use any highfalutin talk… Rest assured I’ll explain it in easy-to-follow, plain language, step-by-step. (Our children and grandchildren are sure to be surprised—and impressed, that we learned this on our own!) Shall we begin?
By Karla Bowen Herman5 years ago in Photography
Moving the Stillness
In the natural world, everything moves, right down to the atomic level. Plants grow, the planet turns, tides rise and fall with the rise and fall of the sun and the moon, insects crawl, birds fly, light changes. Nothing stays still in it's entirety.
By jacki fleet5 years ago in Photography
Insights on Edits
I took this picture about a year ago. Since it depicts a quite important scene, I thought it deserved a special title. In fact, it can be hung in two opposite directions and has been signed both ways since displays may be alternated. The title on the upside is "The Last Supper", and when inverted the title shall be read as "Ask a Memphis".
By Alice K.S.5 years ago in Photography
Turning Pixels to Paint
My wife and I had the amazing opportunity a couple of years ago to relocate our family from the snowy Rocky Mountains to our current island home in Hawaii. While it was a challenging move, seeing our children experience life outdoors year-round outweighs any of the financial or material comforts we left behind.
By Seth Griffin5 years ago in Photography
We’ll fix it in the mix
“We’ll fix it in the mix.” It’s a phrase used in the world of music recording as the last resort. Producers and Engineers might be able to pull a rather underwhelming performance out of the fire with a lot of editing, but often the performance gets scrapped. That’s because it’s nearly impossible to turn a mediocre sound into something amazing. Same is true with photography. You can edit all you want, but you can’t make a bad pic great. Different? Yes. Acceptable? Maybe. Interesting? Sure. But great? No.
By Brian Munson5 years ago in Photography
Can you spot the difference?
In the early stages before the worldwide pandemic hit, I was wondering how I was going to be able to keep myself busy knowing there was really nothing I could do outside of my home with all shops, museums and my favorite restaurants going out of business and shutting down.
By Caracarabonitaa5 years ago in Photography
Street Photography
There is nothing more exhilarating for me than exploring city streets with my cameras. Street photography has been my bliss for nearly ten years. One of the best things I’ve learned over the years photographing on city streets is that being inconspicuous is a great way to capture a good shot. I usually achieve this by using my smartphones. With smartphones small size and the assumption that most people that are using them are tourist taking snaps, it has become much easier to photograph candid, honest moments on public streets.
By Cameron Hampton5 years ago in Photography
