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A few weeks back we had the opportunity to join food, product, and beverage photographer extraordinaire Rob Grimm for two days of shooting in his St.Louis studio. With over twenty years of experience and clients such as Bacardi, Microsoft, Budweiser, and Energ...
Kirsty Mitchell was born in 1976 in the English county of Kent, known to many as the ‘Garden of England’. Growing up, art became Kirsty’s sole passion. She studied until 25, taking courses in the history of art, photography, fine art, and the...
View the Pinup Cola Tutorial HERE! Concept We’ve wanted to do a pinup shoot for a long time, but we also wanted to make it stand out from all of the other pinup photos out there by adding a concept to it. While looking through images of classic pi...
The Lighting Process Every photographer knows that perfect lighting is never achieved instantly. It takes multiple lighting setups and a good bit of experimentation to find exactly what it is you’re looking for. In this case for an editorial-style headsh...
View part one of Erik’s interview HERE. Erik Almas Interview, Part Two This is part two of a three part interview with commercial photographer Erik Almas. We take an in depth look at three different images in his portfolio, and Erik discusses the importa...
Lighting The lighting for this image is one of the more complex setups we have done for a portrait. Four lights were used to create this unique look, each with a different colored gel. When setting up lighting like this, it is best to start with one light and ...
Retouching a Retouch Retouching people is not easy, that being said there are some guidelines to follow to make sure people don’t come out looking distorted. Today we are going to take an image that has been retouched poorly, and fix it. Rules of Retouch...
Grass Brush We are including the brush we made in today’s episode to make your life a bit easier. The next time you have to blend an area of grass, just grab this brush and get to work. Bonus: Use this brush with the Clone Stamp Tool! This Week’s ...
Common Issues Shooting in natural light can have as many issues as shooting with strobes. Not a big deal if you know how to take care of them. Today we are talking about two of those issues: underexposed subject, and cool white balance. You can correct both of...
Fantasy vs. Reality There are many different things you can do with Photoshop, so much so that many people often wonder into the world of fantasy never to be heard from again. Today we battle two images, one based more in reality, and the other in fantasy. Wha...
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?...
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...
Today we’re going to show you how to shoot beer! Everyone here loves photography right? Everyone here loves beer- right? Well, we may as well combine the two! Too bad we didn’t do this everyday.. After shooting we’d crack open a beer and shar...
Welcome to our seventh edition of weekend inspiration! This week we have 20 photos from photographers all around the world. Check out this batch of photos, get inspired, and be sure to tell us your favorites. Enjoy! That was it folks! There are so many amazing...
Quick solutions to correct contrast and color levels in photoshop...
It’s our sixth edition of Weekend Inspiration. I hope you guys are loving these photos just as much as I love finding them! Some really amazing stuff here from some of the most creative people the web has to offer. Let us know your favorites! ...
Our second weekend inspiration collection features portraits from all across the world wide web. Let us know in the comments which ones are your favorites, and what you’re creating for the weekend. Each week we gather the best photos from the web and put...
Today is supposed to be unlucky, but we're making it better by bringing you twenty great photos from photographers all across the world of Flickr....
Analyzing Light In today’s episode we breakdown the lighting of three images by Nick Onken, Anthony Mandler, and Jill Greenberg. Episode Timeline 00:00 – 01:15 – Introduction and new contest announced 01:15 – 03:42 – Analyzing l...
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