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The vital how-to's for photography enthusiasts: how to create the perfect camera setup, capture the perfect picture, edit your photos and beyond.
How to Not Take the Perfect Photograph
Photography is oversaturated with perfection. How much money is spent chasing pixels, poured endlessly into new and better lenses? How many hours are spent chasing that single shot, those laborious hours poured into the night, all those lights and diffusions set up for the dream of a perfect picture? The industry is bombarded with the unattainable, self-destructive ideal of perfection—cast your sight across the ceaseless hordes of online photoshop tutorials and you will find nothing but technical instruction, soulless in nature and robotic in their repetition. Where is that final layer? How long must you edit, before the ideal image emerges from the chaff, sloughing off the imperfect versions of its former selves? You could chase that fantasy into the edges of twilight and never find more than a single whisper of it.
By Oliver Sun5 years ago in Photography
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
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
How to get your photos into Vogue
I’ve been a photographer now for about 3 years, mainly as a hobby, using the medium to tell stories about people I meet. I usually post my photos on Instagram maybe once every 3 months, not posting more is mostly due to laziness. The whole idea of photos for me is generally very fun, but after a while, I pondered on trying out photography as a “side hustle”, and so I set out to look for opportunities available to photographers. As you can already imagine, photography is one very hard industry to get into. It’s highly competitive and you’re competing against really talented individuals with years and years of experience. Whilst you might get a few wedding gigs if you’re lucky, getting into beauty companies or campaigns is one thing that could potentially be a frustrating process for photographers in general. Most of the time photographers will end up giving up on making a sustainable career out of it and end up getting a 9-5 job, to keep the passion for their chosen art form burning out. But one way to make your portfolio stand out in applications, from my experience is to be “vogue approved.”
By omotayo5 years ago in Photography
The Big Picture
Keeping it RAW Photography is a big topic to cover. Then again taking pictures and video is a day to day activity for most of us. We do it because it's fun. It's a way for us to freeze moments in time so we can look back later at important events or use them as a nostalgic time machine; a way to jog our memories and travel back to simpler happy times and happy family gatherings.
By Lisa Cetinic5 years ago in Photography
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
