- 5 Tips to Maximize Profits for Your Wedding Photography Business During the Holidays
- Dec 14, 2015
- For wedding photographers, we experience our busiest season from late spring to fall. Finding ways to earn extra income during the winter months can be challenging. In this article, Dale Benfield, author of The Five-Minute Fix, gives five of his best tips to earn money during the off-season, both by adding shoots and by making more money by selling additional products to your current clients.
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- 6 Easily Overlooked Features in Photos for OS X
- Aug 27, 2015
- The new Photos for OS X application, which replaces iPhoto and Aperture on the Mac, contains many features that aren't initially apparent. Jeff Carlson, author of Photos for OS X and iOS: Take, Edit, and Share Photos in the Apple Photography Ecosystem, reveals six features that might seem hidden at first.
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- 7 Secrets to Creating Irresistible Food Photography Images
- Oct 22, 2012
- Creating truly irresistible images of food requires attention to a lot of different details. Teri Campbell, author of Food Photography & Lighting: A Commercial Photographer's Guide to Creating Irresistible Images, shares 7 secrets to creating amazing food images.
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- 9 Pro Tips for Getting Better Results in the Field from Your HDR Images
- Feb 18, 2014
- In this excerpt from his FuelBook, The Realistic HDR Image, Tim Cooper offers some advice to assure that your HDR photos look their best.
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- A Digital Photographer's Guide to Shooting Film: Choosing Your Film Stock
- Mar 7, 2012
- Jonathan Canlas shares the film stocks that trip his trigger and helps you find the ones that trip yours.
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- A Filmmaker’s Reading, Listening, and Viewing List by Norman Hollyn
- Apr 19, 2012
- Norman Hollyn, long-time film and music editor, writer, consultant and Professor and Editing Track Head at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, offers a list of his favorite resources for producing, directing, editing, sound, music, cinematography and production design.
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- A First Look at the Book Module and Map Module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
- Mar 6, 2012
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Classroom in a Book shows you how to work with the new Book and Map modules in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.
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- A Lighting Gear Checklist for Photographing Kids
- Feb 20, 2014
- In this chapter from 100% Kid: A Professional Photographer's Guide to Capturing Kids in a Whole New Light, Allison Tyler Jones give you a rundown on how to use and how not to use your flash. She also talks about the studio lights that photographers use the most and how to set up your camera and trigger those lights.
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- A Peek at Lightroom 3: Imaging Effects
- Dec 18, 2009
- In Part 3 of the four-part series on Lightroom Public Beta 3, Dan Moughamian shows you how to use the new area in the Develop Module called Effects.
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- A Peek at Lightroom 3: Importing Images
- Dec 2, 2009
- Digital photographers around the world recently received some good news: The Lightroom 3 Public Beta build is available from Adobe Labs, and it’s loaded with some great new features. In Part 1 of the four-part series, Dan Moughamian introduces you to the impressive new photo import capabilities.
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- A Peek at Lightroom 3: Improved Capture Sharpening and Noise Reduction
- Dec 11, 2009
- In Part 2 of the four-part series on Lightroom Public Beta 3, Dan Moughamian shows you how to use the capture sharpening and color noise reduction improvements for Lightroom 3.
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- A Photographer at Work: The Mistakes Made, the Lessons Learned
- Mar 9, 2015
- As a professional photographer, you are going to be judged on so much more than just your capacity to create great images. It is often the lack of these "soft skills" that is leaving so many young photographers unprepared for the realities of the workplace. Martin Evening, author of Photographers at Work: Essential Business and Production Skills for Photographers in Editorial, Design, and Advertising, talks about some of the mistakes he made as a photographer, and what you can do to avoid them.
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- A Photographer's Guide to Developing Themes and Creating Stories with Pictures
- Feb 29, 2012
- Amid all the shutter actuations, lens changing, model posing, gear buying, and minutes spent in front of the computer screen, Jerod Foster suggests it’s probably worth a second of your time to reflect on what it is we are actually doing when using all the equipment we collect in the name of photography.
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- A Photojournalist’s Field Guide: In the Trenches with Combat Photographer Stacy Pearsall
- May 28, 2013
- Photographer Mark Edward Harris interviews photojournalist Stacy Pearsall about her role as a combat photographer, her new book, A Photojournalist's Field Guide, and why being prepared is critical for any photographer.
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- A Photojournalist's Field Guide: Stacy Pearsall's Shooting Methodology
- Mar 27, 2013
- Award-winning photojournalist Stacy Pearsall takes you through her shooting methodology, including her "What IFS" technique, mode, metering, light, color and the 10-frame methodology.
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- A Quick Tour of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
- Aug 23, 2012
- In this lesson, you’ll get an overview of how Lightroom works. You’ll familiarize yourself with the workspace, panels, tools, and controls, as you explore the Library, Develop, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print and Web Modules.
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- Adding Photoshop Automation to Your Lightroom Workflow
- Nov 30, 2007
- Here's a great timesaver from Scott Kelby: Create a sharpening action in Photoshop, save it as a droplet, and then use that droplet in Lightroom as an export action. Sound interesting? It is, and it's easy.
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- Adding Text to a Print Layout in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
- Aug 23, 2012
- If you want to add text to your print layouts, it’s pretty easy, as well, and like the Web and Slideshow modules, you can have Lightroom automatically pull metadata info from your photos and have it appear on the photo print, or you can add your own custom text (and/or Identity Plate) just as easily. Here’s what you can add, and how you can add it.
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- Adding Text to Your Print Layouts in Lightroom
- May 30, 2008
- A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes a gorgeous print can be enhanced by including some text. Whether you want to print info about the photo, a romantic saying, or the name of your studio, Scott Kelby's got you covered.
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- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Classroom in a Book: The New Import Dialog and Using the Loupe
- Jun 22, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the new Import dialog box and enlarged Loupe view.
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