When you light a portrait, a good rule of thumb is that your light should be about the same size as your subject. That’s easy for a single individual where any softbox will work, but what about lighting a group of people? A light that big is hard to find.
Clamshell lighting produces a soft glamour style with minimal shadows, making it popular for beauty portraits. Setup is simple: Resembling a clamshell, place one light tilted high, just above the subject’s eye line, and a second just below, tilted with the subject in the middle. Normally used in a studio
In this article, I’m going to show you how Luminar’s AI Sky Enhancer works with some examples. This amazing tool works with just one slider. What is AI Sky Enhancer? The new AI Sky Enhancer is a filter using Luminar’s AI technology that will make your skies look better with one
Category: Portrait Photographer: Robertino Radovix Photo: “Studentessa Indiana” It is said that “the eyes are the windows to the soul”. These eyes are cautious, neutral and aware. The simple window light falls off to darkness in the background but not before revealing fingers holding the cloth covering the mouth and
With the new year just hours away, we thought it’d be fun to recap 2018. Between covering the full-frame mirrorless trends, photography conferences like WPPI and PhotoPlus, reviewing the latest camera gear and helping you with camera and post-processing techniques, our team had tons of interesting articles that caught your
All of us here at Photofocus wish all of our readers a safe, healthy and prosperous new year. Thank you for being a part of the Photofocus family.
Category: Architecture Photographer: mjhedge Photo: “Bridgeton Trusses” Architectural photography is not always about a building. In this case, it’s about the building structure of a bridge. The curved beams that support the weight, and the trusses that support the roof are all contributions to the essence of its design, and
Happy new year! Before starting to make photographs in January 2019, take a moment and update the copyright year in both the owner section and the IPTC section for each of your cameras. It’s easy to do and even easier to forget to do it. Tethered I use Canon cameras.
Happy New Year! As photographers, we often look to the future when it comes to our business. We think of booked sales, potential repeat clients and more to fill our calendars. Maybe you always take yearly photos of a family in your neighborhood or rely on several events that you’re
The problem with snow added in post-production is that it looks fake more often than not. That’s a shame because creating realistic snow is much easier than people would think. Listen to the Canadian girl and keep on reading to know once and for all the secret to create realistic snow in
Every weekday, Photofocus curators share a great photograph taken by one of our readers. Every month we highlight photographs in the genres of architecture, beauty, outdoor, street and a flex category that changes each month. In December we started featuring snow photographs, highlighting the cold weather that I’ve become so
Many thanks to ifunny.co (NSFW) for today’s thought.
