All of the items here have one time or another come in handy for a member of the PopPhoto staff while shooting a wedding. Getty Images Photographing someone’s Big Day is a beautiful—and stressful—job, especially if you’re not a seasoned pro. This week, PopPhoto is serving up our best advice for capturing that special kind of joy. The job… Continue reading 10 everyday items every wedding photographer should carry in their kit
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How to Share Photos With Micro.blog — Free Instagram Alternative
Micro.blog offers something pretty cool: a safe space to share that you can truly call your own. Created in reaction to pesky features of today’s social media sites (we’re looking at you Instagram & Twitter), Micro.blog is a blog-hosting platform with a social media-style timeline that’s ad-free and algorithm-free. It’s also built on RSS and… Continue reading How to Share Photos With Micro.blog — Free Instagram Alternative
How to Animate a Dancing Character With ActorCore and Blender for Free
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use ActorCore to find and download characters and animations you need, for free. From there you’ll learn how to import them into a project using Blender to create a video. The topics we cover here are: How to download the 3D characters and animations from ActorCore How to… Continue reading How to Animate a Dancing Character With ActorCore and Blender for Free
Fairlight Kit Guide: Here are the Basics You Need to Edit Audio in DaVinci Resolve
Audio editing with Fairlight, in DaVinci Resolve, is designed to be user-friendly, with an intuitive interface that allows you to see what’s going on with your project. However, you will need a few things to make audio editing functional and more fun. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to find an affordable audio interface, pick… Continue reading Fairlight Kit Guide: Here are the Basics You Need to Edit Audio in DaVinci Resolve
Freeze! This week’s best reader-submitted Photos of the Day
Anthony R Gargano Candid photos may conjure up that really unflattering picture your uncle took at your wedding with his shiny new camera. The angle is wrong, he’s somehow added 50 pounds to everyone, and the facial expressions…well, we don’t need to say any more about that. However, great candid images do exist—case in point,… Continue reading Freeze! This week’s best reader-submitted Photos of the Day
How to Use a Limiter to Boost Voice Recording Levels in DaVinci Resolve
Working on audio in DaVinci Resolve’s Fairlight suite is enjoyable: Fairlight has a thoughtful design, a huge selection of great tools, and room for more audio channels than you’ll likely ever need. In this tutorial you’ll learn about using the limiter tool to increase the volume of spoken-word recordings and dialogue, while avoiding peaking. What… Continue reading How to Use a Limiter to Boost Voice Recording Levels in DaVinci Resolve
Exploring the Role of the Queer Community in Nightlife Photography
Queer folks are trailblazers of creativity and community. Here’s how gay clubs have been quintessential to the evolution of nightlife photography. The post Exploring the Role of the Queer Community in Nightlife Photography appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.
Rotolight debuts the ‘world’s first’ electronic smart softbox
The Rotolight SmartSoft Box is a $499 accessory for Rotolight’s AEOS 2 lights. Rotolight British light manufacturer Rotolight has announced the SmartSoft Box—the “the world’s first intelligent electronic softbox”—as an addon for its AEOS 2 lights, according to Amateur Photographer. It’s got some neat technology that will allow photographers to adjust the diffusion, focus, and… Continue reading Rotolight debuts the ‘world’s first’ electronic smart softbox
How to Use Expanders and Gates to Reduce Audio Background Noise in DaVinci Resolve
Recording audio at home is always a tricky feat, from microphones picking up sounds you hadn’t even realized where there to begin with, or squeezing in a functional workplace. A big culprit in my recordings, even after I’ve done everything I can, is the computer fan. The good news is that there’s great tools in… Continue reading How to Use Expanders and Gates to Reduce Audio Background Noise in DaVinci Resolve
How to Process Voice Recordings in DaVinci Resolve Using Fairlight (Free)
Having great audio for your video is pretty much essential to hold your audience’s interest, but what does great audio mean? When it comes to dialogue, or really any audio for that matter, you are looking for the sounds recorded to be a listening pleasure. How to Sweeten Spoken-Word Audio and Dialogue in Resolve Using… Continue reading How to Process Voice Recordings in DaVinci Resolve Using Fairlight (Free)