Category: Tutorials

Learn the exposure triangle easily with a little help from Kool-Aid

John Aldred

The exposure triangle is something every photographer really needs to learn and understand. It’s the relationship between ISO, aperture and shutter speed. It’s why a good exposure can have many different combinations of settings. But understanding the relationship between all can be difficult for new photographers to wrap their head around. This video from Jonathon […]

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Minimalist photography tips for bloggers to create awesome and effective images

John Aldred

Bloggers in general are not photographers. But, they regularly need photography. Many simply inhabit inexpensive or CC-Zero stock photography websites to find images to attach to their content. Pretty much everybody owns a camera these days, though, even if it’s just the one in their phone. This video from COOPH with blogger & YouTuber Jenny […]

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Simplified posing for beginners, breaking down the building & tweaking of poses

John Aldred

Posing is probably the most difficult part of shooting portraits for most photographers. The technical side can be learned relatively easily. Your style just develops over time based on what you like. But posing, directing a subject, getting the expressions that you want. Is art in itself. And if you’re working with the general public […]

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3 more styling tips to take food photos that don’t suck

Dunja Djudjic

After their first set of tips for making your food photos more awesome, Mango Street are back with another quick, but great tutorial on this topic. These are the tips you can use for a variety of purposes – from making your food snapshots on Instagram more appealing, to improving your food photography if you […]

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Here’s how to manage cables, chargers and batteries when traveling

Dunja Djudjic

If you enjoy traveling with photo gear, you know how annoying it is to manage all the chargers, cables and batteries. Even the cameras from the same manufacturer have different batteries and chargers, not to mention other electronics like smartphones, laptops and so on. This is why photographer David Bergman gives you a couple of […]

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This video explains all 27 Photoshop blending modes

Dunja Djudjic

Most of us use different Photoshop blending modes to achieve different effects. Many tutorials suggest which more to use to achieve a certain look, but you have to admit – they rarely state what exactly the blend mode does to the layers. This comprehensive and thorough video from Photoshop Training Channel explains them all! It […]

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Want better portraits? Rotate your canvas while retouching.

Joseph Parry

Once, the idea of rotating my canvas when retouching was jarring to me. I knew it was something my peers were doing but I just couldn’t be bothered to try it myself. After a few one on one lessons where I was “forced” to do it by David Neilands, I actually found a surprising improvement […]

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How to easily use gels to create virtually any color background

Jeff Carpenter

Implementing gels into your photography is a really simple and effective way to make sure your images really stand out from the rest of the crowd. There are a ton of different ways to use gels to create some absolutely stunning imagery, but in this post, I am just going to show you a few […]

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