If you follow photographers on social media, try this out: open your favorite app, start scrolling, but try not to look at who posted the photo. Now, try to guess the photographer behind each image. It might be easier than you think, thanks to each photographer’s signature look. A signature look is the repeated combination of shooting… Continue reading How to Create a Signature Look for Your Photos With Lightroom Classic
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The best gifts under $100 for photographers
Abby Ferguson We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Best filter for landscape photographers Hoya 77mm PROND 16 Neutral Density 4 Stop (1.2) Filter SEE IT Best for high-end instant film photography Fujifilm Instax Mini 40 Instant Camera SEE IT Best for adding… Continue reading The best gifts under $100 for photographers
Watch this great explanation of how photographic film works
Expired film can cost more than fresh film on the secondary market. That’s also part of the magic. Stan Horaczek It’s easy to talk about film as if it’s magic. Many analog shooters will talk at length about how the medium itself gives photography an intangible sense of curiosity and wonder. I’m guilty of it… Continue reading Watch this great explanation of how photographic film works
10 Top Spring Templates for After Effects
Spring has sprung… or at least, it will soon! If you’re prepared for new beginnings, the smell of cut grass, and soft pastel colours, then you’ll love our spring-themed, professionally designed templates to help you make awesome videos this season. In this article, we cover a mix of After Effects templates available from Envato Elements… Continue reading 10 Top Spring Templates for After Effects
3 Top Easter Video Templates for After Effects
This Easter, create some quick and effective video content with a template to help share your message. Easter and Christianity Easter is a Christian festival that commemorates the resurrection of Jesus: Easter is the culmination of Lent (in Western Christianity), a 40-day period of fasting and prayer. The week up to Easter Sunday, referred to… Continue reading 3 Top Easter Video Templates for After Effects
How to use a trail camera for hunting
Here are some tips on how to successfully use a trail camera. Brandon Miller Every hunting season, many hunters grab their trail camera and set up on a game trail in hopes of capturing glimpses of their next potential target. Using a trail camera can be highly rewarding, giving you insight into the animals that… Continue reading How to use a trail camera for hunting
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
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
Tips to build a great landscape photo
In 2006, Edward Steichen’s 1904 picture of a pond in Westchester County, New York, bathed in moonlight, fetched a whopping $2.9 million at Sotheby’s. In 2011, Andreas Gursky’s photograph of the Rhine river sold for $4,338,500 at Christie’s. And in 2020, even at the height of the pandemic, an Ansel Adams print, created at Grand… Continue reading Tips to build a great landscape photo
Jamie Beck’s photos from the French countryside look like Renaissance paintings
One of Beck’s self portraits in a Provence lavender field. Jamie Beck Six years ago, photographer Jamie Beck was seemingly living the life. She was running a thriving commercial photography studio in New York City and had all the trappings of success—prestigious clients from Vogue to Nike, a beautiful apartment, designer clothes, a vintage car.… Continue reading Jamie Beck’s photos from the French countryside look like Renaissance paintings