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Discovering Luminar’s workspace

(Editor’s note: Aurora HDR 2019 is now available. Create amazing HDR photographs with Skylum’s Aurora HDR 2019. Purchase today and save plus get a free bundle of training, LUTs and Looks too!) It has taken me a while to figure out how, when and why to use Luminar to make fantastic images.

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How to effectively include people in landscape photography

We’ve all been there — there’s an amazing sunset or landscape scene that you want to capture, only to find multiple people sitting in front of your camera. Oftentimes dealing with — and including — people in landscape photography is necessary. If you know how to effectively work with people,

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Photographer of the Day: Mark Meyer

Category: Architecture Photographer: Mark Meyer Photo: “Underground Train” So much of architectural art is how the shape of our spaces affect us both visually and emotionally. In this view, Mark Meyer shows how something as utilitarian as a train station can be energizing to us visually, as the design of

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How to find stock video with visual search

More and more, video is becoming a standard for client projects.  Photographers, web designers, marketing folks have all realized that motion is a great way to tell engaging stories. Sometimes though, you’ll find a gap in your video sequences when you put them together. Maybe it’s a forgotten shot or one

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Photographer of the Week: August 27-31, 2018

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 August we started featuring wedding photographs, and September will bring pet photographs. As dedicated

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Photographer of the Day: Ryan Southen

Category: Weddings Photographer: Ryan Southen Photo: “perryn + sarah | rochester, michigan” Being able to bring in non-standard elements into wedding photographs makes them just that much more special. Here, Ryan captures a couple with a very shallow depth of field, with what appears to be Christmas lights hanging from

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Are you ready to use your custom settings?

Many cameras have a button or menu item called Custom Settings (or something similar), but on the first 24 DSLRs I owned, I never used it. When I did try using it, I used it poorly and I’d bet most of you are like me. Let me show you how

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