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Working with the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
One of the least understood aspects of photography is color correction. Even experienced ...
A Beginner’s Guide to Shoot Environmental Portraits
As a genre, environmental portraits are a challenge of sorts for most photographers. It is because ...
I wrote a detailed article on the topic of photographic inspiration recently. The aim was to keep ...
Camera Settings Presets for Shooting Different Scenes
Camera settings presets are a combination of buttons and dials that can be used to recall a ...
Getting to Know Your Camera Lens
The optical piece of equipment that sits in front of your camera is the single most important piece ...
An introduction to creating timelapse videos
Timelapse videos have become somewhat clichéd these days with an increasing number of photographers ...
Using the Dehaze feature on Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom got an interesting addition earlier this year. This feature, technically, is not ...
Outdoor Photography Beyond the Golden Hour
Landscape photographers love shooting during the golden hour of the day. They love the warm mushy ...
4 Methods to Get White Balance of Your Images Correct
Image before white balance correction
Are you plagued with the problem of strange color casts ...
7 Silly Mistakes I Made as an Amateur Photographer
1. Leaving the lens cap on
Amateurs are guilty of making some of the most cardinal of mistakes. ...
Huawei Passes Image by 5D Mark III as Shot by P9, Apologizes
There is only one rule in advertising. It is not all right when you imply something in your ...
Shooting videos with your digital SLR – An Introduction
Today’s digital SLR cameras are extremely versatile. They are ideally suitable for not only great ...
Seven Photography Tools that You Should Possess to Improve Your Images
This discussion is about the tools of trade that we photographers need to possess in order to make ...
How to Extend Background in Photoshop
Let’s imagine that you are standing in front of this beautiful sunset. You set up your camera, set ...
Wedding Photography – the History of the Genre
The history of recording a wedding dates back to a time long before photography came about. The ...
Tricks for Mastering Long Exposure Night Photography
Mastering long exposure night photography is a brass ring for amateur photographers. And why not? ...
Background for Portrait Photography
Background for portrait photography – An Introduction
Backgrounds assume a critical importance in ...
Tips for Shooting Fireworks Photos
Every Independence Day, or even Memorial or Labor Day, it’s common — a given, even — to see ...
Post-Processing Tips to Improve Average Photos
Adobe Photoshop is an incredible tool. It gives you the power to improve average photos into ...
Using a Softbox as your Key Light
The soft box is your definitive source of lighting a model or an object in order to photograph it. ...
Light Painting in Photography: An Introduction
Light painting is a very interesting technique in photography that predominantly uses artificial ...
About focal length and background distortion
You may have heard professionals talking about the right focal length and how choosing anything ...
Post-Processing an Image in Black and White
Imagine photography sans color. It is unthinkable. Ever since we started our journey in photography ...
Survey of Photo Contests by Industry
Does photo contests make sense in participating? – For Recognition
Absolutely. There is no better ...
How to Make Your Backgrounds Blurred
Sometimes you may need to blur out the background of your images. Let’s say you are shooting ...
The Top 7 Compact Cameras for Travelers Under $2000
When it comes to travel photography you need not only to make great images, which is kind of given ...
The following real estate photo tips will help you to get started as a professional photographer. ...
An Introduction to Hyper-lapse
What is a Hyper-lapse?
Hyper-lapse is one of those cool photography techniques which uses a ...
Choosing the Best Travel Photography Lens
A lot of amateur photographers find it difficult to zero in on the best travel photography lens for ...
A technical term that you are likely to hear a lot is lens vignetting. Lens vignetting (sometimes ...
Don’t copy the masters’ style blindly, create your own style
Growing up as photographers one of the biggest source of guidance are the works created by already ...
How to Work with Leading Lines in Your Photography
Leading lines are one of the most important aspects of photography. They have the power to draw a ...
Choosing Software for Post-Processing Your Images
Which application is best for post-processing your images?
Several years ago, when I was first ...
Five Reasons to Invest in External Light
People more or less start the same way. Someone somewhere loves us dearly enough so as to send us a ...
Why Adjusting White Balance Can Lead to a Better Image
One of the challenges faced by photographers on a daily basis is adjusting white balance of their ...
Post Processing a Child Portrait in Lightroom
Some time back I wrote an article on this website, on how to make better portrait photos in natural ...
Image Stabilization: Why It Matters, Types and How to Use
In the overall history of camera technology image stabilization is a rather recent development. ...
Five Natural Light Shooting Tips
You may have heard, nature and natural light photographers often say this – you must head out at ...
Essential Tips to Improve your Photography
If you have recently migrated from a compact point & shoot to a DSLR you no doubt will be very ...
Video Tutorial How to Smooth Skin in Photoshop
Video version of the How to Smooth Skin in Photoshop Tutorial by Savannah Eaddy.
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A Guide to Choosing the Right Camera Lens for the Job
Digital interchangeable lens cameras are the preferred choice for shooting professional quality ...
Some creative uses of Depth of Field
The main shooting mode dial on your camera has the letter(s) A or Av (depending on the camera ...
Nothing that Photoshop Can’t Handle
Photoshop is an amazing tool. For some it is the only post processing tool that they would ever ...
How To Store Photos So They Don’t Get Ruined
Most of us have a large number of old photos laying around the house in some manner or another. ...
Product Photography Tips to Get Started
Apart from portraiture, product photography is one of those few genres which can provide a steady ...
About Flash Sync Speed Limitations and How to Work Around It
We often hear about flash sync speed and how we normally cannot use a flash to sync at extremely ...
Extending a Background with Photoshop
Occasionally, when you’re working in photography, you’ll come upon an image that would be better on ...
Google Ara: The Future of Smartphone Photography
Sometime last week during Google I/O, which has now become one of the most eagerly awaited events ...
Hasselblad X1D-50c: The world’s first medium format mirrorless camera is here
It’s official! Hasselblad is the world’s first medium format mirrorless camera. After months of ...
An Introduction to Simple Post Processing in Adobe Lightroom
Post processing is a key aspect of your photography workflow. It is the final ingredient that makes ...
Shooting Wide Panorama of Cities
Even with a wide angle lens you need to realize that there is no way that you can shoot a wide ...
Landscape photographers are obsessed with the idea of sharp images. They use a multitude of methods ...
How to properly use a pop-up flash
A question that most amateur DSLR users seem to ask is what is the correct use of the pop-up flash ...
Using the Spot Removal Tool in Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom has two powerful features - the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush under the Spot ...
How to Photograph Christmas Lights
Watching the Diwali lights come on one by one, at each house in our colony I couldn’t stop thinking ...
How editing your stock photography can lead to more sales
Before you can start selling your images on microstock websites you ought to know a few things ...
Should I Upgrade my Camera Body or my Lens?
It is all too common for a wide range of emotions to complicate the decision to upgrade the body of ...
Best Books on Portrait Photography
In this discussion we shall take a look at some very useful books on a particular genre of ...
The Basic Rules of Photography and Common Mistakes
Everyone, even professionals, makes mistakes, although their mistakes are rare and usually caused ...
Correct Framing in Portrait Photography
Framing is an integral part of the whole process of image making. Be it landscapes, or portraits or ...
Why You Should Invest in a Tripod
There are probably a hundred reasons why you should invest in a tripod. I am not going to detail ...
Lighting techniques for shooting in studio environment
A studio setup allows you to be creative in ways you could never ever manage without lights. There ...
Introducing Canon Dual Pixel RAW Technology
Last week, the much awaited Canon 5D Mark IV made its debut. The rumor mills have been abuzz for ...
Photography inspiration: How to keep shooting images
As an amateur we see images taken by photographers like Eric Kim or Jeremy Cowart or Chase Jarvis ...
How to Pick the Best Shooting Mode among Auto, S, A, Manual in any Situation
All digital SLR camera systems comes with a series of shooting modes. These are the Auto mode, the ...
Ethical post processing is a fine line that every photographer has to keep in mind when working on ...
5 Useful Tips for Making Great Images in Low Light
Cameras like the Canon 5D Mark III and the Nikon D3X have completely changed the playing field when ...
Easy In-Camera Effects For 2020
Picture this: you’re an amateur photographer. You want to make an utterly astounding photo, and the ...
How to Bounce an On-camera External Flash to Produce Better Images
Having purchased your first external flash you must be super-excited. You must be experimenting ...
Advantages of a hand-held light meter over a built-in light meter
In one of the previous articles on this website I discussed in detail the many different metering ...
Five Reasons You Should Outsource Your Photo Editing Chores
Reason 1 – Liberate the Photographer in You
As much as you love to shoot, post processing ...
Everything You Wanted To Know About Neutral Density Filters
Neutral density filters are primarily used for balancing exposures. By balancing exposure, I mean ...
Understanding camera metering modes
As a photographer, digital or otherwise, one thing that you need to have a good idea of is the ...
6 Tips for Shooting in Harsh Light
Whether they dabble in photography or shoot with the pros, most photographers know that there is no ...
The Use of Diagonal Lines in Photography Composition
We often read about the creative uses of lines in photography. The horizon line is one such oft ...
Nikon has officially marked the D4S as discontinued. One look at the official Nikon Japan website ...
How to Create a Ghost Mannequin Effect in Photoshop
It can be alarming for e-clothing stores when someone adds a product to the cart but does not ...
Double Exposure Effect in Photoshop
If you live anywhere other than in a remote cave, you’ve probably seen those movie posters where ...
Auto Exposure Bracketing: Everything You Wanted to Know
Multiple camera shots with different expose combined in HDR photo
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If you are just starting out in digital photography, you have probably never heard about auto exposure bracketing (AEB). If you are an enthusiast photographer, probably you have heard about this but never quite mastered the concept to use it with confidence. Regardless of your expertise in digital photography this article can help you master an extremely important feature of your DSLR, i.e.; auto exposure bracketing (AEB).
Best Metering Mode for Landscape, Portrait, Wedding Photography
One of the most fundamental aspects of photography is to meter a scene. Metering denotes measuring ...
Tips to Take Better Photos On Your Phone
We're not all famed photographer Annie Liebovitz but that doesn't mean we can't try to take amazing ...
Advantage Of Shooting Film In The Digital Age
Old But Not Obsolete
The dawn of digital sensor also brought in the demise of film. In many ways ...
How Does Hyperfocal Distance Affect Your Images?
Landscape photographers often use the terms focusing distance and hyperfocal distance in relation ...
A basic 7 step post-processing routine for landscape photos
In this article we shall go through a basic 7 step post processing routine that I personally follow ...
Understanding ISO, the least understood of the three exposure parameters
If you look at the main aspects that govern exposure, you would obviously realize that there are ...
Tutorial: How to Smooth Skin in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to use different filters in photoshop to smooth out skin and ...
How to Photograph Birds in Five Easy Steps
Bird photography is a supremely satisfying pursuit if you do it the right way and get results to ...
Using Circular Polarizing Filter (a C-PL Filter)
Photographers shooting landscapes in broad daylight or shooting objects with shiny metallic ...
How to Use Backlighting to Isolate Your Subject
I love shooting with backlighting. Backlighting is one of those acquired tastes in photography that ...
Photographing a landmark at night
Often, when traveling through a foreign land we find ourselves in front of an iconic building or ...
Five features on your DSLR camera that you probably never use
Your camera comes with three handy metering systems. If you are using a Canon system camera yours ...
Getting Started in Low Light Photography
Introducing Low Light Photography
For those of you who primarily shoot with a smartphone or even a ...
How do you tweak the Sunny 16 Rule in Photography?
You are out with your family on a bright sunlit day. The kind of day on which photographers prefer ...
The five questions you shouldn’t ask when buying your camera
Call it our ignorance or plain laziness, we hardly make the research to find out more about a ...
How to Create a Ghost Mannequin Effect in Photoshop
It can be alarming for e-clothing stores when someone adds a product to the cart but does not ...