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How to Use and Choose Wide-Angle Lenses for Photography

If you’re a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In this lesson you’ll learn all about wide-angle lenses and get some photo tips on when best to use them. How to Use and Choose Wide-Angle Lenses for Photography What Is… Continue reading How to Use and Choose Wide-Angle Lenses for Photography

How to Use Fisheye Lenses for Photography

If you’re a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In this lesson, you’ll learn about fisheye lenses and see what they look like in action, as well as how to correct the curve if you prefer a straighter image. How… Continue reading How to Use Fisheye Lenses for Photography

Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks

Shenandoah Jordan, Super Adaptoid, Lady Glorious, Matthew, and Steve Culligan in a Convertible, Haight Street, August 13, 1968. From Elaine Mayes’ “The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967–1968”. © Elaine Mayes In this season’s photo book selection, we look at early color photographs by urban street photographer, Mitch Epstein; Elaine Mayes’s portraits of hippies and oddballs at the… Continue reading Portraits from the Summer of Love, and four other photo book picks

How to Use and Choose Standard Lenses for Photography

If you’re a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. The standard zoom lens is a great lens to have for situations where you need flexibility and quality. In this tutorial, you’ll learn why it’s called a standard zoom and see… Continue reading How to Use and Choose Standard Lenses for Photography

What Makes a “Bad” Photography Lens?

If you’re a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love the photo tips in our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In this lens selection tutorial, you’ll learn about blurring, loss of contrast, chromatic aberration, vignetting and distortion by taking a look at some ‘bad’ lenses. If… Continue reading What Makes a “Bad” Photography Lens?

Laugh it up fuzzball – the year’s funniest pet photos

Nilo’s Love for water. Winner of the Dog category. “Nilo is an adopted puppy about 10 months old. He was hit by a car and was barely saved. Now recovered, he has just discovered water for the first time. His capers and pirouettes show his passion for water. Love at first sight”. Jose Bayon What’s… Continue reading Laugh it up fuzzball – the year’s funniest pet photos

Freeze! The week’s best reader-submitted still life photos

“A traditional still life of three pears exhibiting the interplay between light and shadow”. David Terao For this week’s reader challenge, we asked you to submit photos of the inanimate. And as always, you delivered. While some folks settled on more unusual subjects to photograph, the vast majority of you stuck with classic still life… Continue reading Freeze! The week’s best reader-submitted still life photos

How to Tell a Story in Film and Video With 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’ll see examples of how to use colour grading to create a continuity of feeling. Storytelling With Colour Grading in DaVinci Resolve Natural colour reinforces story,… Continue reading How to Tell a Story in Film and Video With Colour Grading in DaVinci Resolve

10 Top Lightroom Preset Packs for Portrait Photography

Forget hiring expensive photo retouchers. We sifted through the portrait photo preset packs for Lightroom and this assortment of ten, ranging from the natural to the expressive, might very well give your portraits the look you’ve been searching for—instantly. How to Add and Apply Presets in Lightroom Classic If you’re new to Lightroom, here’s a… Continue reading 10 Top Lightroom Preset Packs for Portrait Photography