The post Outdoor Photoshoot Poses: 5 Tips and Techniques appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Jackie Lamas. Looking for some outdoor photoshoot posing tips to improve your portraiture? We’ve got you covered. I’ve been doing outdoor portrait photography for years, and in this article, I offer plenty of tips and tricks to enhance your photoshoots. I explain: How you can use the surroundings to effectively pose your subjectAn easy way to ensure your subjects never get stiffHow to combine beautiful lighting and powerful poses for stunning resultsMuch more! I also offer plenty of outdoor posing examples, and I encourage you to use them for inspiration in your own portraits. Let’s dive right in! 1. Identify key environmental...

The people and websites that sell the most products make the most money, but at what cost? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Lee Morris)

Your mind plays clever tricks, helping you make sense of the world. It creates imaginary groups and lines. So, understanding how that works will lead you to take more compelling photographs. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Ivor Rackham)

Street photography is a genre that requires both a lot of savvy and technique but also a fair dose of patience. Even if you do not do street work, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from the genre that can be applied across pretty much all photographic pursuits. This excellent video essay discusses those lessons and how to use them to improve your own images. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

The post Weekly Photography Challenge – Sunrise appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Sime. This week your photography challenge is to capture ‘sunrise’ we have had this one before now, but let’s think out of the box, work on our technique, maybe include some reflection, maybe try your hand at post processing and make something wild. BUT, main thing, it needs to be a new photograph, so get your thinking caps on, you’ve got seven days! Need some tips, check out this article! Like a SunriseSunrise in the hills Remember: Only one photo per challenge, The photo must be taken for this challenge (not from the archives) Have a great week! Simon The post Weekly Photography Challenge...

Elias Weiss Friedman, better known as The Dogist, has photographed over 50,000 dogs in his career, and as such, he has learned a thing or two along the way. If you are a lover of dogs and photography, check out this fantastic video interview with The Dogist, in which he reveals why he prefers photographing dogs over people and offers a lot of fun insight into his work. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

I've had a preview release of the Noiseless AI extension that will be offered for Luminar Neo users on August 30. It's not quite finished it terms of GUI, but basic functionality is there. My copy only runs under Rosetta on my Mac Studio, but at release, it will be Apple Silicon Native. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Mel Martin)

Photo By Bob Faucher Today’s Photo of the Day is “Cave Creek Canyon” by Bob Faucher. Location: Cave Creek Canyon near Portal, Arizona. “Morning sunlight comes under the storm clouds from the previous night to highlight the walls and plains at the entrance to Cave Creek Canyon, near the town of Portal, in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona,” describes Faucher. EF 28-70mm @ 42mm. Exposure: 1/40 sec., f/16, ISO 100. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all...

Even to the non-photographer, the look of light through a window is quite recognizable, and as such, it is an excellent way to give your portraits an elegant and timeless look. Of course, we do not always have the ability to just use a window with natural sunlight streaming through, and as such, knowing how to create it in studio is a useful skill. Thankfully, it is not that difficult, nor does it require a lot of equipment. This excellent video tutorial will show you how to do it with just a single speedlight. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Most of the time, a worthwhile lens is going to cost you at least several hundred dollars, if not somewhere in the thousands. So, the prospect of a $69 lens is certainly intriguing. Can it produce worthwhile images, though? This excellent video review takes a look at the TTArtisan 50mm f/2 and the kind of performance and image quality you can expect from it in real-world usage. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

The post Luminar Neo Will Gain New Noiseless AI Extension on August 30th appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Jaymes Dempsey. Luminar Neo, the latest release in Skylum’s series of AI-driven editing programs, will soon receive a major upgrade: the Noiseless AI extension, designed to remove image noise while retaining crisp, clear detail.  While Luminar Neo does already offer a noise reduction option, Skylum claims that Noiseless AI is a “higher-quality” tool that ensures you “no longer have to compromise on ISO when capturing photos.” The company explains: “Based on deep photo analysis, Noiseless AI determines an image’s noise level and suggests one of three noise reduction presets…[O]ne click gets rid of noise throughout the photo.”  Most...

And, of course, it features Lightroom guru (and Adobe evangelist), Mr. Terry White. Check it out: How cool is that!!!! Thanks, Terry! This next video was put together by Adobe… …and it’s about the woman you see below, who used to study architecture and fell in love with photography along the way. There is no sales pitch or anything like that (besides just the words Lightroom and Photoshop briefly in the opening and at the end, but that’s it), but man – this is just so well done from beginning to end. It’s only a minute or so, but I think you’ll really enjoy it. Next week, the HUGE Lightroom online training event kicks off That’s right – next week is the Photoshop...

The sky is fascinating. Just above our heads is a dynamic river of ever-changing complexity, and somehow nature can take this chaos and create beautiful clouds and weather phenomena—some peaceful and calm, others terrifyingly destructive. A supercell thunderstorm twists its way through the atmosphere, bringing damaging winds and baseball-sized hail to Leoti, Kansas. For the last 22 years, I’ve traveled hundreds of thousands of miles throughout the central United States in search of some of the most violent storms on Earth. This region, known as Tornado Alley, comes to life each spring as warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico interacts with cold dry air from Canada to produce “supercell” thunderstorms and tornadoes. Documenting these storms, I find it incredible...

I had the fortune to sit down recently with London-based photographer Ivan Weiss, whom I consider one of the great portrait artists of our time. Weiss’ unique body of work has been featured by Canon UK, Affinity Photo, Vogue, BBC, and Forbes, among others, and he also leads the Portrait Track in Peter Hurley’s Headshot Crew, where he mentors other photographers. Our conversation focused on the illusion of originality in art, mentorship, and why you need to “stay on the bus” in order to reach your full potential. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Pete Coco)

Do you have old grainy photos that you'd love to modernize and bring new life to? Photoshop has a new filter that lets you do just that in a matter of seconds. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Iain Stanley)

Shooting portraits on location is a fantastic way to add some drama to your shots or to use the surrounding environment to complement your subject and to tell a story. If you would like to improve your lighting and portraiture, check out this fantastic video tutorial that will show you how one photographer lit, posed, and shot a series of pin-up portraits using four different lighting setups. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Simplicity is the name of the game when it comes to powering your video system. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Christopher Malcolm)

The new DJI Avata dropped today and this little drone looks absolutely incredible. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Lee Morris)

Photo By Zita Quentin Today’s Photo of the Day is “When You’re The Only One Who Thinks Your Joke Was Funny” by Zita Quentin. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the 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 Zita Quentin appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original link(Originally posted by Staff)

It might seem to be an easy transition for a photographer to become a filmmaker. At the core of each of these disciplines is storytelling. A photographer tells a story in a single instant captured at the decisive moment, while a filmmaker tells a story over a period of time, often incorporating elements such as editing and sound to help tell that story. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by John Ricard)