A simple tip to ensure a better portrait is to center the subject’s pupil with the whites of their eyes. Have the subject turn their head and shoulders to balance their eyes.
If you don’t have a clear direction or you are unsure of the final output size when shooting, consider shooting wide and cropping later. Here are a few examples of when shooting wide and cropping later saved the shot.
Category: Outdoor Photographer: Jim Denham Photo: “SURPRISES FALLING” I love long exposure waterfalls where you can see through the surface of the water as it adds such depth (pun intended) to the photo. There’s so much great detail for the eye to wander through the photo, and the low light
Using a wide angle lens in portraiture is dangerous. Here’s why and one way to use a wide lens safely. What is foreshortening? Foreshortening is the effect that happens when something near to a viewer appears larger than things that are far away from the viewer, even though they are not
Built into Photoshop are several excellent gradient maps that make it easy to do black-and-white conversion. These are different than the techniques you’ve seen earlier and sometimes I’ll combine them with other adjustment techniques, or even lookup tables to get advanced results. Let me show you how a gradient map
My new Fuji X-T3 just arrived. I am so excited. The camera was only just released last week. I have barely used it and I am already “in love.” Of course I am a tried and true Fuji fan, having walked away from my Nikon D800 a few years back.
Category: Beauty Photographer: Johann Walter Bantz Photo: “Polo Club Chantilly FR” Beauty often shows in gesture and simplicity. This intimate moment at a polo field near Chantilly, France is the essence of beauty without artifice. There are none of the standard tropes of beauty. There is no elegant gown. There is
Panasonic has announced a new line of full-frame mirrorless cameras, a new lens mount, a new lens for micro four-thirds and the new Lumix Pro Services. Let’s take a look at the new tools and the impact they could have. S1 and S1R, 24 megapixels and 47 megapixels The S1
Category: Architecture Photographer: Rudy Pilarski Photo: “archi de nuit nb” The whimsical side of architecture sometimes hides a practical origin. Perhaps angled windows minimizes unwanted summer solar intrusion. The shading of the sky (though perhaps a bit heavy-handed in this case) focuses the viewer’s attention to the structure, and the
Replacing a background of an image can be a challenge. The trick is to find the right background that has similar colors, tones, lighting and looks like it belongs to the main image. Once you find the right image, cycle through the layer’s blend mode selector to see which mode
Apple has officially released its latest MacOS — Mojave, version 10.14. This new version highlights features such as a system-wide Dark Mode, Stacks, Dynamic Desktop backgrounds and several new apps. It also introduces a great new feature for photographers — gallery and EXIF information views in the MacOS Finder. In
The other night, I stumbled upon a post on one of the photography groups I follow on Facebook, that discussed an Uber-like photography service called ClapperX. Marketing itself as the “Uber for Videographers & Photographers,” ClapperX seeks to match clients with photo and video professionals. While not quite like Uber’s on-demand
