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Photographer’s Guide to Light: Noticing Direct Reflections

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson, you will learn about direct reflections and see how they work in lighting and photography. Direct Reflections Direct reflection — also known as specular reflection — is the… Continue reading Photographer’s Guide to Light: Noticing Direct Reflections

Martin Parr on collecting photobooks, shooting tennis, and the challenges of modern street photography

Tennis, from the Martin Parr’s recent photobook “Match Point.” Roland Garros, Paris, France, 2016. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos Martin Parr’s photography is instantly recognizable. He zeroes in on the foibles of everyday life, focusing on people in their natural surroundings, highlighting the quirkiness of their lives. A Magnum photographer since 1994, Parr has… Continue reading Martin Parr on collecting photobooks, shooting tennis, and the challenges of modern street photography

How to Make a Brochure

Learn how to make a brochure that means business in just minutes. Customize a professional template with our easy-to-use tools. The post How to Make a Brochure appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.

How to delete a comment on Instagram

Deleting Instagram comments can help foster the type of community that you want. Abby Ferguson Instagram can provide wonderful opportunities for photographers. It can help us show work to new people, see new perspectives, and gain inspiration. However, it can also open people up to criticism, negativity, and spam content. Luckily, you have the power… Continue reading How to delete a comment on Instagram

Manual Exposure: How to Use Aperture, Shutter, and ISO to Make a Studio Photo

Welcome back to our Introduction to Flash Photography series. Before we launch into talking about flash, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page when it comes to exposure. All of our instructions about studio photography in this series are based on the understanding that your camera will be in manual mode, where you… Continue reading Manual Exposure: How to Use Aperture, Shutter, and ISO to Make a Studio Photo

How to Easily Mask Out a Video Without Greenscreens Using RunwayML, in Your Browser

If I asked most video editors to rotoscope a clip that wasn’t filmed on a green/blue screen they could do it, but not without being reluctant. That’s because, even with the recent updates to After Effects’ rotoscoping tool, it can be pretty tedious (plus not all of us use Adobe to edit). In this tutorial… Continue reading How to Easily Mask Out a Video Without Greenscreens Using RunwayML, in Your Browser

How to Make Colour Keys for Animation Scenes and Projects

Colour Keys are used in animation to help establish the look and feel of the background as well as the overall colour of the scene. Essentially they are background paintings that lighting, layout and other departments in the studio use as reference during production. Colour key artists help set the mood of the scene by… Continue reading How to Make Colour Keys for Animation Scenes and Projects