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May 15 Photography
Compositing 101 We are very excited to announce that I (Aaron Nace) will be teaching a 3 day course on compositing with Creative Live starting Thu, 5/30/2013 at 9AM. Compositing is about making complex, visual masterpieces driven by your creative vision. Thr...
May 21 Interview, Written Interview
Stephen Criscolo is a 19 year old conceptual photographer. He just graduated high school and is now currently attending the University of Georgia working towards a major in Photojournalism (he’s considering double majoring in fine art but is unsure yet)....
Extreme Speed-Editing Today we’re editing this image by Aleksandar Jaredic, and we only have five minutes to do so! Sometimes you need to be able to edit quickly for clients. We start by correcting blown out highlights using a combination of curves adjus...
May 20 Contest
This Week’s Contest: Three Or More Subjects Time to round some people up for photos! This week’s contest theme is three or more subjects. This is a great challenge for both posing and lighting, and a great way to tell a story. You can also get a lo...
We Want YOU For Our New Commercial! Commercial might be the wrong word. This isn’t going on cable TV, but it will be posted on Phlearn’s homepage, YouTube channel, etc., and seen by thousands of other photographers! The video will be approximately ...
May 17 Weekend Inspiration
Hello everyone and welcome to the 45th edition of Weekend Inspiration! Every week we gather 25 photographs in hopes to give an inspiring kick start to your weekend! These photos are shot by both amateur and professional photographers, and there’s some sh...
Click here for a behind the scenes video from this shoot! Using the Pen Tool The pen tool is a tricky tool to use at first, but once mastered it is a great option for making clean selections. By using it to select only the wall behind our model, we can create ...
May 16 Interview, Written Interview
Your series on color that was featured in Vogue is amazing. Did you shoot these as well as retouch them? How were you inspired to create them? Can you take us through the lighting? Thank you, Aaron! Yes, I photographed and retouched these images myself. It is ...
Using an ND Filter For this particular image, we wanted a sky that was not blown out and even a little bit dark. To do this we used a neutral density filter, or ND filter. What is a ND filter, you ask? An ND filter decreases your exposure by a certain number o...
May 14 Interview, Written Interview
Emil Nystrom is an upcoming creative photographer based in Umeå, Sweden. He’s only been doing photography full time for about a year now, but he has some amazing pictures to show for it! Since beginning the career path to become a photographer Emil has ...
Opening Up Your Aperture… In Photoshop The definition of depth of field is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image. Everything outside of the depth of field gets gradually blurrier the clo...
May 13 Contest
This Week’s Contest: Hard Lighting This week’s contest is hard lighting! This is basically the opposite of our soft light contest back in April. If you’re shooting indoors, try using a lamp without the shade or a strobe with no diffusion or r...
Click here to watch behind the scenes video of this shoot explaining the lighting! Layer Stacking Since we’ll be pulling together three separate images, it’s important that they’re aligned to each other correctly. Doing this manually we be a ...
May 09 Weekend Inspiration
Hello everyone and welcome to the 44th edition of Weekend Inspiration!! This week we have 25 amazing photos gathered from websites like Flickr, 500PX, Behance, and also from photographer’s personal websites. These photos are gathered weekly from both ama...
Matching Two Different Lights The key for this photoshoot was to match our strobe to the light already underneath the bridge. Since the light was already very orange, we decided to gel the inside of of a stripbox to make our strobe warmer in color temperature....
May 07 Interview, Written Interview
Greta Tu is an eighteen year old photographer. Despite her young age, she has a whole lot of talent! Greta was born in Lithuania, but is currently located in Aalborg, Denmark. She began experimenting with photography at the age of eleven, and since then itR...






















