Category: photo tips

A wooden stump, a cookie sheet and foamcore – and you can make great food photos with your iPhone

Dunja Djudjic

Do you take photos of food for your Instagram profile? If you do, you most likely do it with a smartphone. If you are into food photography (or just food), it’s good to know some tips and tricks how to make these food photos look their best. In this video, Peter McKinnon shares some tips […]

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A wooden stump, a cookie sheet and foamcore – and you can make great food photos with your iPhone

Dunja Djudjic

Do you take photos of food for your Instagram profile? If you do, you most likely do it with a smartphone. If you are into food photography (or just food), it’s good to know some tips and tricks how to make these food photos look their best. In this video, Peter McKinnon shares some tips […]

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Quick tip: How Lightroom Survey Mode helps you choose your best images in a flash

Dunja Djudjic

When you need to select the best images to edit and send to the client, it can be quite a boring task. When you get home from a photo shoot and have hundreds of images to choose from, it really takes up a lot of your time. This is when Lightroom’s Survey Mode comes to […]

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Quick tip: Incorporating color gels in your portrait work

Dunja Djudjic

  If you haven’t used color gels so far, in this video you’ll see some quick tips how to introduce color gels into your portrait work. Photographer Manny Ortiz gives you a suggestion of the setting, and also a quick tip how to make the best out of color gels. Manny uses two speedlights, one […]

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Quick tip: Incorporating color gels in your portrait work

Dunja Djudjic

  If you haven’t used color gels so far, in this video you’ll see some quick tips how to introduce color gels into your portrait work. Photographer Manny Ortiz gives you a suggestion of the setting, and also a quick tip how to make the best out of color gels. Manny uses two speedlights, one […]

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These 10 tips will help you improve landscape photography in 2017

Albert Dros

With the new year approaching people usually start thinking what they could do better or improve in within the new year. As a professional landscape photographer I thought it would be fun to give some tips to people starting out with landscape photography.  Don’t be scared! Don’t touch the full automatic mode in 2017 anymore! […]

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How to stabilize your camera even in horrible light conditions

Dunja Djudjic

Working in low light conditions can be very frustrating for photographers. If you have a tripod and shoot a steady scene – well, you basically don’t have a problem here. But the conditions are often far from ideal. First, you don’t have a tripod. The light is horrible to say the least, yet you must […]

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Get To The Choppuh! – Make the Most of Photographing From a Helicopter

Mason Marsh

Editor’s Note: Welcome to new Photofocus contributor Mason Marsh. He’s a Portland, Oregon based photographer, workshop leader, educator and guide. We’re glad to add him to the team.   While drone photography is all the rage these days, there is nothing like taking to the sky in person to elevate your photography and get your heart […]