How to Bounce Your Flash for Soft Lighting in Portrait and Event Photos

Welcome back to ‘Introduction to Flash Photography‘. In this lesson we’re going to be learning about bouncing flash. I think that bouncing flash is probably the easiest and quickest way to improve your flash photography. Bouncing flash is just what it sounds like. Instead of pointing your flash directly at your subject, what you want… Continue reading How to Bounce Your Flash for Soft Lighting in Portrait and Event Photos

A Photographer’s Guide to Colour — How to Work With Lighting Temperature

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson you’ll find out why white light isn’t actually white. A Photographer’s Guide to Light: Noticing Colour Cameras and Eyes and Brains (Oh My…) A camera system functions in… Continue reading A Photographer’s Guide to Colour — How to Work With Lighting Temperature

10 Instagram accounts to follow if you love nature & wildlife photography

Dan Bracaglia Nature photography has been around ever since the dawn of the photographic process. After all, the very first commercially published book of photographs, by one of the earliest inventors of the medium, William Henry Fox Talbot, was called The Pencil of Nature. And while many of the subjects of his photographs (calotypes) were… Continue reading 10 Instagram accounts to follow if you love nature & wildlife photography

What is Color Correction for Video? How to Prepare Your Footage

In this lesson from David Bode’s How to Color Correct Video in Premiere you will learn what types of footage works best for color correction. We’ll also look what types of footage are more of a challenge. How to Prepare Your Video The color correction process primarily boils down to three different things: adjusting to… Continue reading What is Color Correction for Video? How to Prepare Your Footage

How to Use Split View to Compare Before-and-After Versions of a Photo in Lightroom Classic

So you’ve put in your time finessing the edit of a photo. There comes a time where you think you’re finished and in creeps some doubt. Does this edit look natural? Are my colours right? Is that too much clarity? Because photo editing is inherently a subjective skill, only you’ll know the answers to these… Continue reading How to Use Split View to Compare Before-and-After Versions of a Photo in Lightroom Classic

How to Color Correct Video Efficiently in Premiere Pro

In this lesson from David Bode’s How to Color Correct Video in Premiere you will learn best practices for working on your footage. In the video editing process, it makes sense to know when to color correct your footage. If you color correct too early, you may be doing extra work because you may be… Continue reading How to Color Correct Video Efficiently in Premiere Pro

How to Use Clarity and Saturation to Change the Tone of Photos in Lightroom Classic

Let’s take a look at a couple of adjustments you’ll want to really understand when editing your photos in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Both the Clarity and Saturation adjustments offer a wide range of aesthetic looks to help you get the most out of your photo edit. In this tutorial we’re going to learn about how these… Continue reading How to Use Clarity and Saturation to Change the Tone of Photos in Lightroom Classic

An epic photo of a leopard seal eating a penguin wins the 2021 World Nature Photography Awards

Grand Prize winner, World Nature Photography Awards 2021. © Amos Nachoum The winners of the World Nature Photography Awards 2021 have just been announced and many of the winning shots are absolutely incredible. Like the organizers of the competition, we here at PopPhoto believe taking photographs is one of the best ways to highlight the… Continue reading An epic photo of a leopard seal eating a penguin wins the 2021 World Nature Photography Awards

Best disposable cameras of 2022

Fujifilm Best overall Fujifilm QuickSnap Flash Check Price A built-in flash and a sharp lens make this a winner. Best color Kodak Fun Saver Check Price Get the distinct Kodak colors built-in. Best underwater Fujifilm QuickSnap Waterproof Check Price It will cost you extra but it’s not afraid of water. Disposable cameras have long been… Continue reading Best disposable cameras of 2022

Before color photography, there was the Lippmann process

Nick Brandreth Nick Brandreth fell in love with alternative processes during an apprenticeship at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York over a decade ago. When the apprenticeship ended, he was hired by the museum and has been leading workshops and researching historic photographic processes ever since. He can teach you how to make… Continue reading Before color photography, there was the Lippmann process