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Shooting A Musician In A Low Light Environment Before taking any pictures, we met with Glenn and talked with him about what kind of images he wanted from the shoot. We decided on portraits with a dark, yet natural feel. Realizing this helped to build our light...
Photoshop Techniques To Shave Away Unwanted Body Hair We’re all mammals, which means that even the prettiest models are going to have some amount of body hair. There’s nothing wrong with this at all – but there are some instances when removin...
How To Fix Common Sunset Problems In Photoshop Shooting in during sunset or sunrise can pose particular problems regarding color. But, there are two ways to help fix this in camera. One is to make sure your white balance isn’t set to auto – youR...
This Week’s Photo Contest: Blue as a Primary Color We’re all about blue this week! Submit your best photo that has a lot of blues in it. There can be other colors… but we’re talking at least 70% blue. This can be done naturally, but you...
Meet Photographer Kelsey O’Brien Kelsey O’Brien is a junior photography major and advertising minor at West Virginia University, and we’re excited to have her here at Phlearn for the summer. Kelsey will be producing and shooting a large scale...
Finding A Pattern And Making It Work We decided to edit this amazing image by Barias Sahinoglu and add a houndstooth pattern to the left subject’s shirt. The pattern was simply found online, cropped, and duplicated in a way that kept the houndstooth patt...
This Week’s Contest! We’re back from a busy week with a new contest! After teaching for three amazing days on creativeLIVE, Aaron took a road trip down the west coast of the United States. Compositing 101 was a huge success, and you can view a reca...
Will Bremridge is a London-based Commercial and Editorial photographer shooting for advertising agencies, magazines and brands. Having started out shooting snowboarding he soon moved away from the mountains to concentrate more on shooting portrait/lifestyle wo...
Contest Winners Drumroll please… We are literally on fire with excitement to announce the winners of this contest. We received almost three hundred entries, and had to painstakingly narrow it down to ten. Thanks so much to everyone who entered, and get r...
Working With Layers The key to getting a beam of light to look realistic is using multiple layers while creating it. A beam of light will be most intense in the center of the beam, so by making three different curves layers that get smaller and smaller it give...
This Week’s Contest: FEMALES This week’s contest is all about females! All you need to do is submit your best photo of a female, girl, woman, chick, lady, or dudette in a comment below for the chance to win a free Phlearn PRO Tutorial of your choic...
Join us as we discuss exactly what goes into a professional watch shoot with professional product photographer Rob Grimm! The finished photograph is a combination of multiple images. All of the elements were shot separately and merged together in post producti...
The Wonders of Color Blurs After adding adjustment layers to our photographer to pump up the blues and yellows, we can further intensify this image by adding color blurs. While they don’t look like anything special individually, they can be applied over ...
Bare Bulb + Shot Into Camera = Lens Flare Goodness A crucial part of what gives this image mood is the lens flare on the left side. Lens flares can be a great way of adding pizzazz to an image, but only when used correctly. Always try creating them in camera, ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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