Monitors can make or break our photo editing experience. Luckily, our friends over at BenQ have announced an amazing contest! It’s the perfect chance to get creative with your spooky photography, and enter to win an amazing monitor from BenQ. How to enter All you have to do is take a portrait of yourself, and […]
“Under this mask, another mask. I will never be finished removing all these faces.” ― Claude Cahun This week Google honored the 127th birthday of surrealist photographer Claude Cahun (pronounced: caAH) as a Google Doodle. The doodle draws on a series of self-portraits of one of the precursors of the LBGTQ+ community. Singular plural Born Lucy […]
Symmetry appears when equal parts of your composition mirror each other, like when two halves of your scene look the same and balance each other out. Symmetry is defined as something being clean, proportional and balanced. This often makes pictures appear neat, tidy and clinical. Horizontal symmetry Horizontal symmetry is when the line passes through a […]
Distractions in your images can make a great image, not quite as great as it could have been. When you are creating an image, it’s important to be aware of the foreground, background and sides of the entire scene, not just the main subject. It may seem like a very small thing to be watchful […]
With Halloween just a day away, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at some of the movies and TV shows out there that prominently place cameras. Specifically — horror movies and TV shows. Because who doesn’t like a good scare? Here are a few of my favorites. Do you have a favorite […]
One Halloween, I was rumbling toward an old airfield, littered with rusting abandoned vehicles, airplanes and more. I had just called the previous day spontaneously, wondering if I could run up and photograph at night. It was a special day. Yes, Halloween. But a Halloween with a blue moon. What could be better? I was […]
Our friends over at BenQ have announced an amazing contest! It’s the perfect chance to get creative with your spooky photography, and enter to win an amazing monitor from BenQ. How to enter All you have to do is take a portrait of yourself, and then use your favorite editing software to make a Halloween […]
Crooked horizons and distorted buildings can make an otherwise great photo, look amateurish. Luckily, LuminarAI makes it easy to level your horizon and fix perspective distortion with a couple of easy clicks. CompositionAI Open your photo in LuminarAI, switch to the Edit tab and select CompositionAI from the Essentials tools. CompositionAI offers several options to […]
With new still cameras bringing professional-level video to photographers it is only a matter of time before people will ask us to make motion pictures. Cinema quality video is here New graffiti is on the subway car and it’s telling us to get our video skills up and running — fast! This is like the […]
Halloween is one of the best seasons for portrait photographers to get creative. Or experimental, at the very least. People love getting into costumes, dressing up in Halloween colors and themes, and of course, exploring spooky spots. Understandably, however, it can get extra challenging to do something different year after year. Halloween themes symbols are […]
The number of video size formats available in even entry-level still cameras can be really challenging to understand. Here is what they are, where they came from and why. Aspect ratios These are the dimensions of a video screen shown as width to height. Standard television had an aspect ratio of 4:3. Modern HD TVs […]
MAX Sneaks is where Adobe shows off the early technology previews of potential features that may or may not get into their products. Saturday Night Live comedian, Kenan Thompson, helped unveil the tech alongside Adobe engineers, and all the highlights right here. Spoiler alert: cool sh&^ ahead. If you see something you especially like, let […]
With Adobe MAX and a new version of Premiere Pro officially in the public’s hands, I was excited to interview Francis Crossman, Senior Product Manager for Premiere Pro at Adobe. We discussed the efficiency of Premiere and took a look at the new features. Andrew Ford (AF): Thanks so much for taking the time to […]
The Canon RF 50mm f/1.2 L USM was one of the first lenses to launch alongside Canon’s mirrorless cameras. A signature L series lens with the famous red ring, the not so nifty fifty (it costs just under $2300) claims to be everything its EF mount relative wasn’t. Optically perfect, fast to focus and easy […]
With Halloween just a few days away, our friends over at BenQ have announced an amazing contest. And you could win a free monitor! The BenQ Halloween Photography Contest is the perfect chance to get creative with your spooky portrait. To enter, take a portrait of yourself, and then use your favorite editing software to […]
For a lot of new photographers, Photoshop can seem intimidating. The application has been around since 1990, and it has every tool you can think of. But recent efforts have started to make Photoshop more approachable, through AI tools that help to speed up and make a workflow easier. I had the chance to chat […]
Halloween is my favorite time of the year. I love getting dressed up, eating an insane amount of candy and doing fun creative shoots with my friends and not just with the kids. Halloween isn’t just for kids! You can join in on the fun too. Here are three ways you can have fun as […]
Camera Raw version 14 introduces Masking 2. It arrives with a whole new set of masking tools, including Select Subject and Select Sky, along with the new Masking panel to manage and modify them. The photo below is the original. The opening photo’s adjustments were done with the new selective adjustment tools and their updated […]
Need to brush up on your Premiere Pro video editing skills? Be sure to join Photofocus publisher Rich Harrington for two courses this week as a part of the Adobe MAX conference. Premiere Pro: Essential Editing Skills Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, 5-6 p.m. ET | Register here Join master trainer Rich Harrington in this follow-along lab […]
When I first found out about the updates that were coming to this year’s Adobe MAX release of Lightroom and Lightroom Classic, I was pretty excited. The updates, announced Tuesday morning, represent some of the biggest updates made to the Lightroom ecosystem. I had the chance to talk with Josh Haftel, Director of Product Management, […]
