It can be overwhelming to arrive at a beautiful landscape to make pictures, or to a portrait shoot and be faced with making great pictures on demand. When I make portraits for a client, I have to deliver or there’s no food on the table — how’s that for pressure?
(Editor’s note: Thanks to our partner, Rocky Nook, for this chapter on “dramatize with black and white” from “The Enthusiast’s Guide to Composition.” This title and many and more how-to educational books for photographers are right here.) While it’s clear that the use of color can be a powerful compositional
I feel like this topic is one that can be debated from here to eternity. It’s a fun discussion where everyone is right. Which has more emotion, black and white photographs or color photographs? I wanted to bring this up because while testing ColouriseSG for a video (below) I chose
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A recent update for the GoPro Hero5 firmware (v01.55) makes the camera unable to use batteries made by other manufacturers. This is troublesome because 3rd party or off-brand batteries are typically much cheaper than a manufacturer’s batteries. Of course, the off-brand batteries often don’t last as long as the OEM
This post started with an email from a friend, Carole, who I hadn’t heard from in… well, decades. She wondered if I still had the negatives from a shoot we did together in December of 1977. Of course I had them. The challenge was how to easily see them digitally.
Black and white photographs can be very impactful, but there’s so much more to making great black and whites than simply removing the color. In this episode, Adobe’s Bryan O’Neil Hughes is back to help us demonstrate all the great tools Lightroom has for helping us make the most of
Category: Portraits Photograph: by Marianna Roussou Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr Community. To learn how your work can be featured on the site, please read this article.
Category: Portraits Photograph: by Luis Alvarez Marra Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr Community. To learn how your work can be featured on the site, please read this article.
This “How to Create the Look” article shows what it takes to create a rugged Black & White portrait.
One of the keys to successful portrait photography is learning that the most important buttons you can push are not on your camera.
Join Photofocus’ Melissa Niu and commercial photographer Joel Grimes as they explore the story behind one of Joel’s favorite photo composites with soccer player, Bailey.
