Photo editing provides everything from minor photo retouches to outstanding effects. It helps you prepare photos for printing, sharing on social media, or submitting to photo contests. It also enables you to create a personal and cohesive artistic style. Although you can excessively edit your photos and ruin them, most of the time, your photos will benefit from post-processing. However, …
How to Prepare a Photo Session
Regardless of your preferred photographic genre, whether the subject is posing for you or you rely on candid snapshots, you need to prepare your photo sessions. Some sessions may be more complex than others and require more planning, but even the most straightforward and casual photo sessions require some thought. So here is how to prepare a photo session efficiently. …
Photography Mistakes to Avoid
You read so many photography books and articles teaching you how to master a particular technical or compositional aspect and follow them by heart. It seems you did everything right, and still, when you see your photographs on a big screen or printed, something is off. That’s because while focusing on what you need to do, you forget to consider …
How to Use Mist Filters in Your Photography
Photographers use filters all the time, whether UV or polarizing filters or more artistic ones, for good reason. Filters are small and affordable optic devices able to enhance color or contrast, alter luminosity, or add a particular effect at the moment of shooting. Not only do you get to see the result instantly, but you also don’t need to spend …
Wedding Photography Mistakes
When weddings are in season, the lives of wedding photographers become hectic. To keep things under control, honor scheduled events, and deliver photographs and photo albums on time, many wedding photographers automate their tasks, skip any meeting they can skip, and use the same to-do list for all their events. The result is disappointing: similar photos with a commercial and …
Tips for a Perfect Photographer Vacation
We already showed you a few ideas to make the most of your vacation and enjoy some time off. But there is so much to discuss regarding vacations that we felt the need to return to the topic. Lately, a lot has been happening around photography vacations. There are specialized photographers one can hire to record their vacation memories. You …
Photo Editing Apps for iPad
Let’s face it: not all photographers need the advanced technology and outstanding features of complex photo editors, such as Capture One, Exposure, Luminar, and Photoshop. For most of us, photo editing is a 4-step process of applying a few simple and subtle adjustments. We want to retouch our photos. We don’t need image manipulation tools, complex masks and selections, and …
How to Capture Warm Weather in Your Photographs
It’s summer, it’s sunny, it’s warm. It’s the perfect weather for taking photographs. Nonetheless, your photos don’t seem to capture the warmth and look like they could be taken in any other season. The viewer should instantly know these are summer photos and immerse in the hot summer atmosphere. Whether you shoot indoors or outdoors, the following tips will help …
How to Prepare the Photographer for Photo Competitions
Photo competitions are a good way to get your photos out there and become more than a hobbyist. Even if you don’t win, which will probably happen in the beginning, you can prepare for enrolling, evaluate the competition, and maybe receive feedback. The process helps you move from the ‘I sometimes take pictures’ mindset to the ‘I am a photographer’ …
Tips to Build Confidence in Your Photography
Back in the day, it was easy to spot a photographer: they were the only ones who had cameras. Nowadays everyone has a camera and speaks proudly about their photographs. Furthermore, photography may be a full-time job or an artistic expression. Receiving money for your photos isn’t the only thing that makes one a professional photographer. While taking a photo …