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, […]
This morning, as a part of Adobe MAX, Adobe announced its latest updates to the Lightroom ecosystem. Included are previously-announced masking and selection tools, as well as a new Community Remix tool. Here’s all what to expect when you update. Precise selection and masking Available in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom for Mac, Windows, […]
This morning, as a part of the Adobe MAX updates, Adobe announced new versions of Photoshop for desktop and iPad. The company also brought a version of Photoshop to the web, enabling anyone to access and share Photoshop documents from anywhere, and comment on them. Here’s what’s new for photographers; you can read the entire […]
This morning, as a part of its updates at Adobe MAX, Adobe released updates for both Premiere Pro and After Effects. Highlights include several new beta features, like Scene Edit Detection and native M1 support in After Effects, along with the new Remix feature in Premiere Pro. New in After Effects Following a successful public […]
As a part of the Adobe MAX updates this morning, Adobe announced that the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) has released a new Content Credentials tool in beta, as a part of the latest version of Photoshop. Content Credentials will provide clear content ownership for creators and increased content transparency for viewers across the web. How […]
In advance of today’s Adobe MAX announcements, I got a first look at the new Camera Raw on iPad. Built into Photoshop on iPad, Camera Raw lets you open and develop RAW photos, and then bring them into Photoshop either as a Layer or Smart Object. How the iPad Edit tool compares to desktop While […]
Tonight, Sony announced the Xperia PRO-I, a new Xperia smartphone developed specifically for content creators. Combining a 1.0-type sensor, a 24mm ZEISS Tessar Optics, advanced image processing and autofocus, 4K 120p video recording and much more, the Xperia PRO-I delivers professional imaging quality from an ultra-slim 8.9mm form factor. “We remain committed to building […]
Thanks to the cameras that can be found in smartphones, more people are developing a love for photography. This is a wonderful thing. However, knowing which traditional cameras to buy when you’ve outgrown your mobile camera can be challenging. It used to be that entry-level traditional cameras were bare bones. Newcomers to photography would buy […]
Excire Search 2 is the plugin version of the powerful AI search software, which adds Excire searching capabilities to Lightroom Classic. Let’s look at some ways it can enhance your Lightroom Classic workflow. Excire Foto and Excire Search 2 both sort and keyword your photo library automatically, no manual work required. The keyword hierarchies analyze […]
The best camera to use is the one you have with you. You’ve heard it a million times, right? Treat your phone just like you treat your camera We keep our camera gear at the ready, don’t we? It’s cleaned, batteries are charged and it’s in our bag and ready to grab when we need […]
Halloween is just around the corner; sadly I won’t get all my planned shoots in this year due to the pandemic. So I thought I would have a look at some previous Halloween shoots and have some fun with the edits. Like editing lighting to a creepy scene in LuminarAI. Prepare to experiment Be prepared […]
It’s your last chance to sign-up for this year’s Adobe MAX Creativity Conference. Register now so you don’t miss out on the amazingly creative, inspiring and informative sessions starting Tuesday! It’s all free — and it starts Tuesday. Click here to register today! Once you’re signed up, head over to learn how to choose your sessions. […]
How can I keep my photography fresh and unique? Lately, I’ve seen and heard this question quite often in my social media streams and just in casual conversation with other photographers. First of all, you are not alone in your feelings here. We all go through this. The struggle to keep motivated and excited about […]
Landscape photography is a huge passion for many photographers. My enjoyment of photographing landscape stems from the desire to be in a beautiful location, and also to come home with an image that I would gladly hang on my wall. There is definitely an art to photographing landscapes, so here are some tips I put […]
“I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a ‘record shot’. My first thought is always of light.” -Galen Rowell Participatory photography Galen Rowell wanted to match his feelings with the scenes he […]
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 […]
Now, this might be more a summer photoshoot than heading into a winter one (It also depends on if you’re Down Under or not). It also depends on if you do this inside or outside. If you have the room to use your bathroom, then a nice warm milk bath on a cold day might […]
