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10 Printable Gift Trends to Ace Your Gifting Game This Holiday Season

Win the office Secret Santa and delight your family when you take your gifting game to a whole new level using these customizable gift ideas. The post 10 Printable Gift Trends to Ace Your Gifting Game This Holiday Season appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.

ABCs of Photo Sorting: How to Turn a Mess of Pictures into an Organized Collection

Have you ever faced a necessary project that seems so overwhelming you don’t know where to begin? You delay, then you don’t start, and soon enough the project is a mental barnacle, forever attached to a to-do list. That can be the state of affairs when your intent is to sort a collection of photos.… Continue reading ABCs of Photo Sorting: How to Turn a Mess of Pictures into an Organized Collection

Photographer Turns Slide Projector Into a Arduino-Powered Digitizer

For those with family members who grew up in the 1980s (or earlier), a slide projector was a pretty common way to share and show images before the internet was a thing. But these days, finding a way to get people to sit and view these images in a dark room with you is even… Continue reading Photographer Turns Slide Projector Into a Arduino-Powered Digitizer

One Thing: How a little camera made my day less stressful

The right webcam can make all the difference with remote work and clients. (Navin Kumar) The pandemic forced many of us to repurpose our homes into ad-hoc classrooms, unequipped gyms and barebones home offices. Video calls, for better or worse, became the new norm through which many of us connected with colleagues and clients. We… Continue reading One Thing: How a little camera made my day less stressful

6 Tips for Beautiful Portraits on Location

The post 6 Tips for Beautiful Portraits on Location appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Darlene Hildebrandt. Struggling to capture great on-location portraits? You’re not alone. Unlike studio portrait photography, photoshoots on location can be unpredictable and stressful. Even if you’re using a flash, you generally need to factor in the… Continue reading 6 Tips for Beautiful Portraits on Location

Fiction and absurdity: Thomas Rousset’s exaggerated explorations of rural life

Reading Time: 2 minutes © Thomas Rousset. Set in the village of Prabert in France, Rousset’s images play on the eccentricities of the village and its people, transforming them lovingly into caricatures and tableaus During his childhood, Thomas Rousset spent a great deal of time among the detritus of a traditional rural life. Alongside the… Continue reading Fiction and absurdity: Thomas Rousset’s exaggerated explorations of rural life

Capturing emotion in your commercial portraits

Emotion has a powerful influence over our everyday purchasing decisions, and this year, new research from the research consultancy Brand Keys revealed just how far that influence goes. In 1997, researchers found that rational considerations weighed more heavily than emotional ones when driving brand loyalty. However, that’s changed today, with emotional considerations outpacing rational ones.… Continue reading Capturing emotion in your commercial portraits