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Understanding color theory in photography

Color theory is one of the most important guidelines for visual communicators — photographers included. If you do a lot of color photography, it’s definitely something you need to have a good grasp of. It’s also a complex and broad topic, but today’s featured video should give you a basic

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Radiant Photo: Instantly creating rich beautiful colors

Are you interested in creating rich but not oversaturated photos instantly? Radiant Photo can do this beautifully. Read on! What does Radiant Photo do? Radiant Photo states that it was created by photographers for photographers. It’s an easy-to-use editor that runs as stand-alone as well as a plugin. You simply

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15 creative fall photography ideas

Will fall in full swing, and the leaves starting to change, now’s as good a time as any to get out and photograph the changing season! Fall provides some great opportunities for all different types of photographers to capture the landscape in their photographs. Here are 15 creative photography ideas

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The best things about photographing in the fall

Everyone has a love-hate relationship with photography in the fall. Some say their photos look muddy and not so flattering. Luckily, there is a way around it! There is always potential inside every shot you take. Many photos can be amped up through different methods to capture their full beauty.

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An easy challenge to kickstart your photography

We all need a little challenge once in a while to kickstart our creativity. For whatever reason, we haven’t picked up our camera in quite some time. We’re not being creative and it’s taking a toll on our mental state. Before we start, let me just say, we are not

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rockstar portrait

Coloring a rock star portrait

Rock star, guitarist, singer, and photographer Ken Susi of the band, “Unearth,” dropped by the Photographic Test Kitchen, for a portrait session. Our goal is how to create a different look by using colors. Creating the first image In the first image, I used 2 Dynalite Baja B6 strobes, one

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Color concepts for 2022

Color concepts: What’s “in” for 2022?

For the last few years, I have been writing an article on the expected color concepts for the year. It’s fun and a little quirky to see what other people deem to be our color concept palettes for the year. So what’s “in” for 2022? Predominantly green, so many different

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Imagining a strange alien world through infrared photography

Since “The Strange Series,” Munich-based photographer and visual artist Roland Krämer has continued to experiment with infrared photography to imagine extraterrestrial landscapes. It continues to be my favorite creative use of infrared photography, and I find his “Alien Series” to be the most otherworldly yet. In essence, infrared photography opens

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Color grading in Photoshop, part three

In this last installment of my color grading mini-series, I take a little look at the different tones in your image with the Color Balance adjustment in Photoshop. This allows you to add various colors to the highlights, mid tones and shadows of your images. I personally like to add

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Diving in the colors of the surreal Rainbow Mountain

For those of us experiencing heightened wanderlust due to travel restrictions in 2020, filling our travel bucket lists is most likely among the next best thing. I’m sure that some of you may already have a long list of places you’re longing to visit and photograph. Still, I’d like to

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