3 Simple Tips for Beautiful Outdoor Portraits

Tip 1: Making sure you have light You can’t take a good portrait without light. The easiest light to work with is natural light; but shooting in direct sunlight usually produces harsh and unflattering photos. Here’s the first tip: look for closed or open shade around a few hours after sunrise or before sunset. Closed…

This new Lightroom plugin lets you instantly upload to Instagram from your desktop

Uploading from your desktop straight to Instagram isn’t really anything new.  There are a number of methods out there to let you access your Instagam account and post new images straight from Windows or OSX.  Usually, they’re a bit of a long winded process. The new LR/Instagram plugin for Lightroom, however, makes the process simple and […]

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Video showing the power of High Speed Sync in a bright environment

We have probably already established that just one soft light can make a huge difference in how a picture looks, but many times it is too bright to use a strobe. If you want to get a correct exposure with a wide aperture, you need a very fast shutter speeds. Sadly most systems don’t like […]

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How to plan and produce your own photo shoot

Planning and producing a photo shoot, especially when there’s crew involved, can be a demanding and stressful task. This is especially so while you’re still learning, making mistakes, and figuring out exactly what kind of things you need to plan and prepare for. Not everybody has access to a produce to figure all this out […]

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How to spawn clones of yourself in video with Adobe After Effects

As more DSLR owners shoot video, it’s natural that they’re going to start experimenting with visual effects. In this video from Tobias at Surfaced Studio, we’re shown how to clone ourselves in video footage using Adobe After Effects. While you might not want this exact effect in your own work, the video is still worth watching. In it, […]

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