Photoshoot and Beyond
Lenses are getting better in quality with each passing year. But, no amount of technology put into the IQ of a lens can change physics. Sometimes, especially when using wide-angle lenses, you end up with slightly distorted images due to limitations in …
When I first came across the work of Russian photographer, Ilya Nodia, I knew I was going to like what I saw as I headed towards his portfolio. In this particular project, the tale of “Captain Sadness”, the story goes something like this… In 1989, young Rick Sogers won a lookalike competition of Captain America in […]
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I like to approach my digital photography with a certain sense of the fantastical and the surreal. Many of my architectural and cityscape images feature the use of bracketed multiple exposures, which allow me to retain highlight detail in things like window lights and neon signs when shooting at night, or shadow detail in underexposed […]
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A grainy monochrome effect can give your images a raw power that harks back to classic documentary photography. Here’s how it’s done…
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We’ve all been there, playing with our action figures as kids as if they were real. For me it was He-Man. For photographer Ari Mahardhika, it’s the characters of Marvel Universe, but just playing wasn’t enough. In this amazing series of images, Ari has brought these action figures to life, using a selection of techniques to […]
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In this video from Aaron Nace of Phlearn, he walks us through how to make hair color pop in Photoshop. He uses a color balance adjustment layer to bring out the natural color and then creates a solid color adjustment layer to give the highlights a kick. Finally, he walks us through how to dodge […]
Recently I was wandering around that Facebook thing because it is the ultimate procrastination tool. I can’t say I remember what I was putting off, but I’m so glad I was. Through a series of countless random clicks on god knows what links, I wound up on an event page with an open invitation to […]
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I’m affiliated with the Dark Realm Collective (DRC), it’s an art group that specializes in Dark / Horror / Supernatural subjects – the group was founded October 2014 by Matt Seff Barnes. As a collective, we release four ‘art packs’ a year; each pack has a title, and a selection of five ‘themes’ for the […]
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I’m affiliated with the Dark Realm Collective (DRC), it’s an art group that specializes in Dark / Horror / Supernatural subjects – the group was founded October 2014 by Matt Seff Barnes. As a collective, we release four ‘art packs’ a year; each pack has a title, and a selection of five ‘themes’ for the […]
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The 4th of July is still a few months away, but there’s no harm in getting an early start on editing firework photos. To explain how to properly blend together multiple exposures of fireworks, photographer Jimmy McIntyre has shared an in-depth tutorial. Throughout the video, which comes in at exactly seven-and-a-half minutes, McIntyre explains the […]
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