Posing, lighting, and shooting a portrait is only half the process of creating a successful image. To create a truly polished photo, you have to have the retouching skills to match. This excellent video tutorial will show you the full process of editing a portrait using Photoshop. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

This week, Sigma announced it was introducing a new charitable initiative, in partnership with authorized Sigma lens dealers nationwide. The camera and lens company said that from now until June 30, 2020, 5 percent of all Sigma lens sales made through participating dealers will be donated to charitable organizations working on COVID-19 relief efforts. “This contribution is meant to help ease the many and various burdens felt by those affected by the coronavirus across the country,” says Mark Amir-Hamzeh, President Sigma Corporation of America. “To that end, Sigma will donate, through our dealers, a portion of product sales to much deserving charities around the country.” For more information, see the press release below. ### Sigma Gives Back with New Dealer Program...

If you've taken photos in your past travels that may not have exactly pleased you, you should take some time after a while to revisit them. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Nicco Valenzuela

So much of successful video is the marriage of technical abilities and creative vision to augment the events on screen in a way that increases the viewer's engagement. This fantastic video tutorial will show you five simple cinematography techniques to improve your video work. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

Photo By Jeff Davidson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Buckeye” by Jeff Davidson. “This buckeye butterfly makes me think of a Monet painting with the delicate color, soft feeling and general beauty of nature’s bounty,” says Davidson. “The wingspan is 2 1/8 to 2 1/2 inches. They’re found throughout most of the United States south to the tropics. They’re rare in the north except along the Atlantic coast. Flight is from midsummer to fall. They fly swiftly if disturbed.” Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The...

The post Poll: What Post-Processing Software Do You Use to Edit Your Photos? appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Caz Nowaczyk. Here at dPS, we’d like to know what post-processing software you use to edit your photos so that we can deliver some post-production tutorials that better suit you. Let us know below. You can vote for more than one if you use multiple editing platforms. If the software isn’t listed, please let us know what you use in the comments section! Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. The post Poll: What Post-Processing Software Do You Use to Edit Your Photos? appeared first on...

Photography has always played an important role in raising awareness of social injustice issues, including poverty, homelessness, and famine. However, media reports from the Indian state of Rajasthan claim that its government has laid out a rule for photographers: no further documenting food distribution to the poor. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Scott Mason

The post Two New Canon EOS M Cameras Will Debut Before the Year is Out appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Jaymes Dempsey. While the camera industry has slowed in recent months, Canon continues to push forward. New rumors indicate that Canon will be releasing two EOS M cameras by the end of 2020. While the details of these cameras are uncertain, they come as a welcome promise for a (hopefully) post-coronavirus world. Prior to coronavirus concerns, discussion of two full-frame mirrorless models dominated the internet: The Canon EOS R5, poised as a mirrorless-style 5D and packing true 8K video, along with in-body image stabilization and 20 frames-per-second continuous shooting. And the Canon EOS R6, a camera...

The post LitraTorch 2.0 Review – LED Lighting for Photography and Video appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Suzi Pratt. LED lights are fantastic for both photography and videography, but they tend to be large and cumbersome to use on-camera. This is where the LitraTorch 2.0 steps in. Released in late 2018, this second iteration of the popular LitraTorch promises “studio lighting in your pocket.” How does it actually perform? Read this LitraToch 2.0 review to find out! LitraTorch mounted to a GoPro using the included cold shoe mount adapter. Specs Truly compact at 1.5 inches x 1.5 inches16 LEDs – double the original version of 8 LEDs in version 13 brightness levels (100, 450, and 800...

Composition is a nuanced and subtle thing, and any single landscape scene can give you a wide variety of possible images. If composition is something you struggle with a bit, this excellent video tutorial will give you some helpful advice for how to compose your landscape images. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

A lot of more advanced portrait styles require the use of multiple lights to fully craft the images, but you might be surprised by how much you can still accomplish with just a single light. This great video tutorial will show you how to light and shoot this eye-catching black and white portrait using only a single strobe. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

The 70-200mm f/2.8 is a staple lens for many photographers across a wide range of genres, but such lenses are rarely cheap to come by. If you are looking for a more affordable alternative, check out this great review of the new and highly anticipated Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD lens. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

Finding commercial clients is a minefield. Working out which agencies to contact, who to contact within the agency, and as importantly, how to do so and what on earth you should say can all be a nightmare. In this video, I cover all of this and more. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Scott Choucino

Instagram has been the go-to social media for many photographers for the past many years. It is getting old as a platform and has undergone many changes. I have used it daily for the past four and a half years and gone beyond 300,000 followers. Here, I share some tips on how I did it. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Mads Peter Iversen

Springtime brings millions of alewives to the state of Maine on their annual spawning run from the Atlantic Ocean. Using both large rivers and small streams, they make their way inland to lakes and backwaters of streams, where they deposit and fertilize their eggs. It’s a perfect opportunity for photographing osprey fishing and in-flight. With water droplets exploding, the osprey emerges from the stream with a nice catch. Canon EOS-1D X Mark II, Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM and Canon Extender EF 1.4x III. Exposure: 1/3200 sec., ƒ/8, ISO 10000. The Alewife is a species of herring that is 10 to 14 inches in length and weighs up to 1 pound. While not as well-known as the salmon runs of...

You can extend Lightroom Classic’s usefulness by installing plug-ins to assist you in tasks ranging from uploading to photo sharing sites to batch-create snapshots to managing your exported metadata and more. The Plug-in Manager is what you will use to enable/disable installed plug-ins, as well as check their status and see if updates are available. You can access the Plug-in Manager by going to File > Plug-in Manager, or by clicking the Plug-in Manager button found on the bottom of the Export dialog. With the Plug-in Manager open you will see all of your installed plug-ins listed on the left side. A green light next to each plug-in tells you that plug-in is enabled and operational. If the light is off...

Photo By Lori Hibbett Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Sandstorm” by Lori Hibbett. Location: Death Valley National Park, California.  “There was a ton of sand blowing in the distance,” says Hibbett. “I zoomed in to find that there were people standing atop the tallest dune in Mesquite Dunes at Death Valley.” Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Lori Hibbett appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff

The post Photo Hacks to Make Your Canvas Print a Showstopper appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Gvido Grube. Taking perfectly decent photos isn’t rocket science. And once you’ve taken them, it’s also not hard to turn them into perfectly decent photo canvas prints. But what if you’re striving for something more, something exceptional? What if you want your canvas print to be a real showstopper? Well, there are a few hacks you can use that should get you instant results. And the photo printing experts at CanvasDiscount.com are here to talk you through these canvas printing tips. Read on. Stick with the basics of composition Photo by Roger Erdvig – Unsplash It sounds counterintuitive to play...

Lake Champlain is a 435-square-mile freshwater lake that borders two U.S. states, New York and Vermont, as well as the province of Quebec in Canada. At 120 miles long, it makes up the majority of Vermont’s western border with New York. The lake overall is rather skinny, at just 12 miles at its widest point, which provides great views of the Adirondack Mountains when looking west from the Vermont shoreline between Burlington in the north and Shoreham in the south. Lake Champlain is part of an 8,234-mile watershed that includes at least 16 major rivers, as well as water from Lake George in New York and supplies drinking water for approximately 250,000 people. The lake drains northward into the Richelieu River...

Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Light at the End of the Creek” by David Shield. Location: Sedona, Arizona. “Winter precipitation resulted in high water levels in the creeks of Sedona,” explains Shield. “I hiked one of the local trails on Oak Creek where I found this popular spot for photography and chose this composition as I liked the way the water provided an illustration of a leading line towards the iconic Cathedral Rock.” See more of David Shield’s photography at www.davidshieldphotography.com. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit...