On the heels of Yahoo’s purchase by Verizon, SmugMug has bought former Yahoo property Flickr. SmugMug has promised that neither product is going anywhere, but has yet to offer any specific details about the future of Flickr. According to an FAQ page about the acquisition, “Flickr and SmugMug will continue
Category: Street Photographer: 陳 揮之 “In Nha Trang” The photographer does an amazing job here, capturing the everyday life of Nah Trang, Vietnam. The colors here bring life to the photograph, and really support the main subject well. There’s a certain emotion to the scene here, made more prevalent with
Luminar 2018’s masking feature allows you to selectively paint with a brush to control where a filter’s results are shown or hidden. There are two types of masking brushes, Filter and Layer Brushes. Here’s the difference between these two brushes and when to use them in your editing workflow. Layer
The beauty of the career path you have chosen or the hobby you are cultivating through a passion you have is that it is wide-spread. Photography is all around the world. It comes in so many different forms. There are so many niches in the photographic business that there is
Category: Sports Photographer: Allan Jones Photography “Panning Cyclist” Who says you can’t be creative with sports photography? Allan Jones shows us how, by using a slow shutter speed to capture the cyclist in motion. What’s great here is that the cyclist is perfectly sharp, but the motion here is obvious and
Category: Nature Photographer: Allan Jones “Snowflake macro” I love snowflake macros because they represent how much patience and determination the photographer had to create them. It’s also just really cool to see them up close. I like how the lone crystal stands out among the wash of white showing just how
Get the show here or get it on iTunes — Please, post a review on iTunes. Welcome to Beyond Technique, a podcast empowering photographers to bring their businesses to the next level! In this episode, Skip Cohen and Chamira Young dive deep into a discussion with fashion, advertising, and
It’s important to keep a shoot moving along, keep your subjects engaged, and keep up appearances that you know what you’re doing, right? We all want to appear to be in confident control. However, it’s also important to pay attention and make adjustments so that you don’t waste time making
Lens hoods are probably one of the most overlooked and important pieces of gear that we have for our lenses. They help with a number of things — with everything from reducing lens flares to getting rid of haze caused by the sun. What Does a Lens Hood Do? “Shade” Your
As a beginner photographer, we don’t always have a killer budget to invest in education. I found some very useful tools over the years that helped me along the way without breaking the bank. Here are 5 totally FREE options to improve your photography skills! 1) YouTube This is such
Category: Beauty Photographer: Heidi Rondak “Moi Lolita“ This is a fun, fashion editorial image that features the model’s oversize Chanel logo earring. Her blue midriff cropped top is a ruffled, larger-than-life compliment to the warm tones of the building behind her. Her profile shimmers in the glow of the soft overcast
Since Adobe changed some of its Creative Cloud pricing on Monday (4/16/18; note the Photography plans were not impacted), there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding alternatives to Lightroom. And while Lightroom continues to be the industry standard for photo editing and organization, there’s a lot of tools out there that
