Category: Street Photographer: Kurt Kramer Photo: “Pell-Mell: Light, Shadows, Stripes” Kurt Kramer’s image “Pell-Mell: Light, Shadows, Stripes” instantly caught my eye. To me, this image embodies what street photographer — photographing a complete stranger without them knowing, in a public place and showing a side that most often no one ever
Category: Outdoor Photographer: Ken Childress Photo: “Trail Ridge Road Milky Way_” The challenge for a compelling milkyway/star field shot is a good foreground. I love that Ken didn’t let the light pollution from the city stop him from getting the shot! It almost has the feel of a day to
Photographing large groups of people is the most challenging assignment you’ll get as a portrait photographer. Each person expects you to make them look great in the final portrait, but there’s always at least one person with a half blink or a nose tickle and there’s definitely one person who
A recent change to Lightroom is an Advanced Camera Profile that allows you to attach other settings. Now, we can actually import look-up tables, and attach them to our Lightroom presets. This means that a lot of the advanced things you do in PhotoShop can translate to a Lightroom color
As a new hunter, I’ve been devouring so much information available out there about hunting and I realized that I can contribute back by sharing some simple ideas to help hunters make better pictures. There are so many traditions and beautiful landscapes surrounding hunting that you should really take advantage
Category: Beauty Photographer: Darren M Photo: Nala Early morning. Typhon Maria would hit Taipei soon. Nala poses seemingly without a care in the world. The soft light filtered through threatening clouds reveals her simple yet elegant look. Originally shared with the Photofocus Readers Flickr Group. Join the group and share your
This year, Adobe is doing something really cool for creatives. At its annual Adobe MAX Conference, taking place Oct. 15-17 in Los Angeles, the company is asking creatives to give them their most creative elevator pitches. But not just any elevator pitch — an elevator pitch on why you should win
As a budding young photographer, I cut my teeth with gelatin silver printing. It would be some years before I became aware of daguerreotypes (c. 1839), heliographs, photogenic drawings, wet collodion, tintypes, calotypes, cyanotypes, platinum/palladium prints and Cibachrome. This is just a partial list of historical photographic techniques. Just as
When Lightroom CC was announced, I was kind of disappointed to see that Adobe’s Sensei search wasn’t going to be making it over to the Lightroom Classic application. While you can search for things like the camera used, date taken and more, I can’t all of a sudden find all
Category: Architecture Photographer: Brandon Kopp Photo: “Cable Grist Mill, Great Smoky Mountains National Park HDR” While this image may not be a traditional architectural photograph, it is everything a good architectural image should be. It displays the timeless feel of the building, the utility of its purpose, and vertical lines
LUTs can give your creativity a boost. Trying different LUTs with your RAW photographs can quickly give you a cool, warm or “other-worldly look,” that you fine tune from there. Not sure where to start? Check out this article here, on the basics of using LUTs with your photographs and some of
Earlier this year, I considered entering a large art competition. I had an idea, support behind me in terms of executing it, and thought I could deliver it without a hitch. It was going to be a large-scale photography piece that would be installed on the side of a building.
