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10 Top Title Animation Presets for Premiere Pro

What you say is just as important as how you say it. Animated titles get your point across with a visual tone that suits and elevates your footage. Whether you have a distinct title animation style in mind for your video or want to peruse the options, here are several that caught our eye—and very… Continue reading 10 Top Title Animation Presets for Premiere Pro

Leica M11 sample photos: 60 megapixels sure looks good

Converted from DNG, vignetting reduced | ISO 64 | 1/500 sec | f/8. Jeff Keller The flagship Leica M11 rangefinder launched earlier this year boasting a host of upgrades, most notably, a higher-resolution sensor and a more powerful processor. And yet, the camera sports the same basic design as its ancestors, dating back to the… Continue reading Leica M11 sample photos: 60 megapixels sure looks good

Nobody understands depth of field and it’s all Apple’s fault

A shallow depth of field can result in bokeh or soft, circular renderings in the out-of-focus portions of an image. Some lenses have more pleasing bokeh than others. Tang Ming Tung/Getty You’ve likely seen plenty of photos with soft, out-of-focus backgrounds. With the right setting, they can look rather dreamy with brightly colored circles (called… Continue reading Nobody understands depth of field and it’s all Apple’s fault

How to Imagine a Look and Evaluate Video for Colour Grading in DaVinci Resolve

If you’re a filmmaker and you’d like to know more about editing, particularly colour, then you’ll love our free course, How to Colour Grade Video. In this DaVinci Resolve tutorial, you will learn how to use colour grading to create feeling. How to Imagine a Look and Evaluate Video for Colour Grading in DaVinci Resolve Some… Continue reading How to Imagine a Look and Evaluate Video for Colour Grading in DaVinci Resolve

How to Use Noise Reduction and Smooth Skin Tones in DaVinci Resolve

Learn to colour correct like a pro with our free course DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading for Beginners. You’ll learn how to use each important tool in Resolve, including how to set up your project, how to use scene cut detection, create cinematic look, and this tutorial, which introduces noise reduction and how to use it… Continue reading How to Use Noise Reduction and Smooth Skin Tones in DaVinci Resolve

Colour Grading and Contrast in DaVinci Resolve: Neutral, Natural, and Beyond

If you’re a filmmaker and you’d like to know more about editing, particularly colour, then you’ll love our free course, How to Colour Grade Video. In this Da Vinci Resolve tutorial, you’ll see examples of natural colour grading by using exposure adjustments in the shadows, mid-tones, and highlights in combination with masks and motion tracking. Colour… Continue reading Colour Grading and Contrast in DaVinci Resolve: Neutral, Natural, and Beyond

Photography’s golden rules and when to break them

The fundamentals of photography composition are meant to be broken but first, you must grasp them. Stan Horaczek Photography has a lot of rules that are really just principles. Most of them are useful guidelines worth understanding, not edicts to be followed to the letter. In this photography fundamentals series, we’re going to look at… Continue reading Photography’s golden rules and when to break them

Tasteful Boudoir Photography: How To Get Amazing Shots

Boudoir photography sessions have become extremely popular in the last ten years, along with maternity photo sessions. The reason behind this is possibly the fact that modern women are getting more and more confident about their bodies, no matter their shape and size. There are so many women of all ages and backgrounds who are… Continue reading Tasteful Boudoir Photography: How To Get Amazing Shots