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 […]
