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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 ...
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...
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...
Want to learn how to edit this image from beginning to end? Click here. The Perfect Balance When shooting outside with strobes, it’s important to get a perfect mix of ambient and artificial light. We were shooting at about 1:30 PM, so the shadows cast on...
Tricks of the Transform Tool Since our goal for this photo is to clear away the trees on the right-hand side, we’re going to have to use some of the dirt field and rotate it to match the perspective. By using the horizon and leading lines we can find our...
May 06 Contest
This Week’s Contest: Intimate, Emotional, Portraits The theme of this week’s contest is intimate portraits that show emotion. One great way you can get emotion from your subject is to not pose them and let them be themselves. Submit your best emoti...
May 03 Weekend Inspiration
Hello everyone and welcome to the 43rd edition of Weekend Inspiration! Every week we gather 25 inspiring photos from both amateur and professional photographers, as well as some photos from the Phamily. These images are gathered from websites such as Flickr, 5...
May 02 Camera, Written Article
For the most part I’m the kind of guy that likes to believe in that silly notion that your gear doesn’t matter. Though there are always two sides to a coin and so there are times where gear does matter, but for the most part I still believe that in...
Where Oh Where to Find Wallpaper Since we’re applying this wallpaper in photoshop, there’s no need to make a trip over to Home Depot. We found a great variety of textures, including wallpapers, over at a free website called Lost and Taken. All of t...
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