May’s 10 standout Licensing photos

Each month, we highlight some of the best Licensing submissions in our 500px New in Licensing Gallery. In this series, we’ll delve into why these photos are in high demand and make for excellent Licensing content. As part of our ongoing commitment to educate and inform our 500px Licensing Contributors, we’ll feature new and relevant… Continue reading May’s 10 standout Licensing photos

How to Make Cool Glass Effects in Photoshop (With 3 Actions)

Fancy creating some cool, glass-like effects on your photographs? Try these stylish Photoshop actions from Envato Elements to bring new life to your images. In this tutorial, you’ll see how to create wet glass, shattered glass, and plexiglass looks with your image using actions. All of these actions are available as part of an Elements… Continue reading How to Make Cool Glass Effects in Photoshop (With 3 Actions)

Negotiating women: The quiet strength of Hannah Starkey’s peacemaking portraits

All images © Hannah Starkey. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London On show as part of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the Belfast artist’s 21 portraits gesture towards a stoic, complex understanding of womanhood I found it hard to describe to myself how I felt walking around Hannah Starkey’s Principled and Revolutionary: Northern Ireland’s… Continue reading Negotiating women: The quiet strength of Hannah Starkey’s peacemaking portraits

How to Build a Professional Photography Portfolio with Zero Clients

This blog post is written by the team at The Photographer Mindset.  If you’re just stepping into the world of photography or you’re looking to turn your hobby into a source of income but don’t have many connections or clients, then this blog post is for you. It can be tricky to get your foot… Continue reading How to Build a Professional Photography Portfolio with Zero Clients

Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Storytelling Category Winner

The 2022 500px Global Photography Awards serves creatives working with photography and provides them a chance to showcase their skill and be rewarded for it. The second edition of the competition consisted of six categories: Technical, Storytelling, Commercial Content, Documentary, Fine Art, and Landscape. Today on the blog we’re talking with the winner of the… Continue reading Meet the 500px Global Photography Awards Storytelling Category Winner

How to Use Auto Reframe in Premiere Pro

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we’ll be learning how to use Auto Reframe in Premiere Pro. This is especially useful for designers and content creators who are looking to export their videos for multiple different aspect ratios.  You’ll need to export a new video for each platform, such as LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram,… Continue reading How to Use Auto Reframe in Premiere Pro

How to Create Slow Motion in DaVinci Resolve With Optical Flow

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial we’ll be looking at how to create slow motion in DaVinci Resolve with Optical Flow. We’ll be using techniques that will allow is to create slow motion effects even if your captured footage is at a lower frame rate.  What You’ll Need To follow this tutorial, you’ll need… Continue reading How to Create Slow Motion in DaVinci Resolve With Optical Flow

Lens Flare Trends! What Is Lens Flare and How to Add It?

What You’ll Be Creating Today, we will be taking a look at what a lens flare is, why it can be both good and bad, and how to add lens flare in Photoshop. Let’s find out how this hardware error turned into an artistic asset! What We’ll Learn You’re ready to begin learning about lens… Continue reading Lens Flare Trends! What Is Lens Flare and How to Add It?

11 tips for better black and white street photography

Black and white street photography has a long history, dating back to the 1930s, when Henri Cartier-Bresson roamed the hidden corners of Paris and Walker Evans and Helen Levitt rode the New York City subway. In the following decades, even as color photography began to dominate—first in advertising, then in fine art—pioneering street photographers continued… Continue reading 11 tips for better black and white street photography