Photographer of the Day: Ernogy

Category: Travel Photographer: Ernogy “Down and Dirty—Mossbrae Falls, California” Shooting low to the ground and cropping the waterfall very closely, Photographer of the Day Ernogy uses a strong foreground to give us a down and dirty perspective of this waterfall in Dunsmuir, California. There is a quiet, softness in the moment despite the hard rocks. The image was…

Got A New Camera? Get Luminar Pluto, Too

Luminar, by Macphun, is a photo finishing tool for Mac computers, and I’m really impressed. It’s simple and intuitive to use. I think if you’re a new photographer that this is probably the best photo software for you. As a new photographer, it’s important to remember that software doesn’t make your pictures better, it can…

Happy Holidays from Photofocus 2016

All of us at Photofocus wish you, our cherished readers, the very happiest of holidays and a healthy, merry and prosperous new year! Photo: “Holiday Lights, Atlanta Botanical Gardens” by Kevin Ames 2016

Photographer of the day: Jeff Clouet

Category: Street. Photograph: “x-stairs” by Jeff Clouet (username “Jeff Clouet” on Flickr). Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. Why I picked this image:  This street photo by Jeff Clouet stands out by its symmetry. The escalators form interwoven X’s while the tiles form a mesh of squares and rectangles. The black and white processing works…

Color Correction for the Best Skin Tone

Editor’s NOTE: Photofocus is proud to welcome master photo educator Lee Varis to our roster of authors! Subtle Adjustments Make all the Difference Every photo needs some amount of adjustment to enhance its presentation, even really good photos can benefit with the right adjustment. However, if you ask 5 different people what needs to be…

How to create a backup system that will also protect your installed programs

Lets be honest with ourselves for a second here, computer hardware is potentially a very dangerous and/or sensitive thing to meddle with. Actually, just in general computers (mostly PCs) have the potential to become unstable in an instant, sometimes even without a catalyst. Or a warning. Of course, back-up solutions are widely available and we […]

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Instagram can help you become full time photographer. Here’s how

A few people requested an in-depth post on how to grow your instagram. Here’s how I grew my instagram account without using any online services. Before I dive in, this is purely my workflow and there is no secret App that will make you gain thousands of followers over night nor is this going to be […]

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Watch: what it would look like if cameras had superpowers

I believe all of us fantasized about having superpowers when we were kids. Now that we’re grown up, maybe we do have some as photographers. A short film “Photoreal” by Corridor Digital shows us what it would look like if cameras really had superpowers. “Photoreal” shows what superpowers of camerad would look like in real world. I […]

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Every camera manufacturer runs some kind of ambassador scheme, somehow they don’t really represent women

Most camera manufacturers run ambassador schemes. They vary in their numbers and the precise ways in which they’re run, but the principles seem similar enough: pick a range of photographers who use their gear to promote them to the public. But I’ve a feeling that they could do better. Olympus UK announced its latest crop […]

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