Tag: reading

How to Create a Signature Look for Your Photos With Lightroom Classic

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

How to Add Color in Lightroom Classic Using Hue, Saturation, and Luminance

“How do I edit my photo to look like (insert famous photographer’s name)?” Certain photographers have unique, signature styles that others try to emulate. All kinds of things go into a signature style, from the choice of subject matter to the shooting approach, equipment, and a lot of small choices that are unique to every… Continue reading How to Add Color in Lightroom Classic Using Hue, Saturation, and Luminance

The Best Used Gear to Buy From MPB

Last year Pop Photo’s Pop Awards highlighted 24 pieces of the best photography gear that had been released in the previous 12 months—cameras, lenses, drones, and a number of photography accessories. The diverse mix of gear included products aimed at working pros, advanced amateurs and those new to photography. As the Pop Photo editors select… Continue reading The Best Used Gear to Buy From MPB

How to Review a Photoshoot : Quick Intro to Digital Asset Management in Lightroom Classic

Last month, in “How to Edit and Assess Your Photographs,” Amy Touchette outlined her photo editing process. In this tutorial we take another look at photo editing principles and practices, but from a digital asset management perspective. You’ll learn how to plan your editing, use ratings, and harness the potential of subjectivity to keep your… Continue reading How to Review a Photoshoot : Quick Intro to Digital Asset Management in Lightroom Classic

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

How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

With Lightroom’s Smart Previews you can work on your Lightroom catalog without access to the image files. This is a powerful, but under-appreciated feature of Lightroom. Smart Previews give you the freedom to keep working even if you lose access to the drive that stores your image files. This feature makes it easy to send… Continue reading How to Use Smart Previews to Save Space and Speed Up Lightroom Classic

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

Early Black Friday deal: Save $140 on the JOBY GorillaPod Tripod Kit

The JOBY GorillaPod 5K Kit is on sale at Adorama right now. JOBY We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › The JOBY GorillaPod 5K Tripod Kit is a product that we love here at PopPhoto. It even made our list of suggested gifts… Continue reading Early Black Friday deal: Save $140 on the JOBY GorillaPod Tripod Kit

How to Make a Video for World AIDS Day (December 1st)

December 1st is World AIDS Day. Find out how you can help to raise awareness by creating an engaging video with a World Aids Day video template. World AIDS Day takes place every December 1st and is an opportunity to create awareness and show support for those living with HIV, as well as to commemorate… Continue reading How to Make a Video for World AIDS Day (December 1st)