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I think this may be my favorite edition of Weekend Inspiration yet! Welcome to our 12th edition of weekend inspiration. Below you will find 25 beautiful photographs from photographers all around the world. Professional, amateur, and aspiring photographer’...
Epic Photo Battle Phlearn is proud to present our second epic photo battle! We pit two photos together to see who comes out on top, and best of all, you are the ones who decide! Tell Us Why The whole reason we do these battles is to learn what makes a photo be...
Pre Production Today we are talking about an upcoming shoot we are planning for a PRO Tutorial. We are going to be creating a gritty stylized sports/athletic photo, and we are very excited. Moving from an idea to a reality involves pre-production. It is basic...
Sep 25, Episode 373 Business, Written Article
After spending the last two years creating images to complete your portfolio, you finally get the phone call you’ve been waiting for. Somebody wants to pay you to take pictures. Awesome! You spend an hour talking with your first client about all the cr...
Adding Style Congrats to Chris Neel for winning this week’s contest! This is his image and we are happy to edit it. When working on post-production you have many choices as far as the direction you want to take an image. Will you make it black and white?...
It’s September the 21st, and we are inviting you to take a look at our ELEVENTH edition of Weekend Inspiration. Yep, we’ve been gathering inspiring images from all around the web to bring an inspiring start to YOUR weekend. Below we have featured 2...
Epic Photo Battle Today we bring you the first epic photo battle on Phlearn. We are pitting one photo against another and seeing who comes out on top. This is not just some “pick the best photo” battle, today we are asking why. The whole idea behi...
Creating a Story Why is creating a story in your photos so important? Because it gives the viewer something they can relate to. In yesterday’s article -Why John Carter Sucks and Avatar is Awesome - we talked about how using emotion can be the differenc...
My John Carter Experience On a recent flight from San Francisco to Chicago I had my choice of movies, and decided to go with John Carter. I was actually curious about this movie to be honest, as I hadn’t heard much about it other than it was a flop. Not one ...
Better Than Ever Thanks to your help we are making Phlearn better than ever. We are re-thinking our content to give you the best experience possible, and help you believe that you can do anything you put your mind to. Contest Every Monday we will be announcing...
Welcome to our TENTH edition of weekend inspiration! I can’t believe we’ve already done 10 weeks of inspiring posts for your weekend. Time flies. Today we have 20 photographs from great photographers from 500px, Flickr, 1x, etc.. We love these pict...
Thanks! Since our last episode we have received over 100 comments on how we can make Phlearn even better. Thank you so much for taking the time to let us know how to make Phlearn even better. We are listening. We are taking a week, and re-thinking all of the c...
We Need Your Help Since the beginning Phlearn has always been completely transparent in everything we do, making you a part of our struggles, our successes, and our decisions. The time has come again for us to turn to you. We have spent over a year making fr...
Welcome to our ninth edition of Weekend Inspiration. Every week we gather some of the best photos on the internet purely to inspire YOU! This week we have all kinds of different photographers, with all kinds of different subject matter…so let’s get...
Telling a Story Through a Photo I talk a lot on Phlearn about telling a story through your photos, it is a great way to get your viewer involved in what is going on and make them care about the image more. Today we are dealing with something a little different...
How to Make Skin More Dynamic Retouching skin can be done in many ways, from cloning out pimples to all out smoothing. In this tutorial we are going to be covering more global adjustments that will change the way a photo feels as a whole while making the skin ...














