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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...
Congratulations to Jason for winning this week’s contest! We’ll be editing his image and showing you how to make your subject stand out better from the background by using some simple coloring techniques. Simplify Your Color Palette To make our sub...
Jan 14, Episode 413 Contest
This Week’s Contest This week’s contest if for images with blank backgrounds. Submit your photos that were taken in front of a plain backdrop or outside where the background has very little to no detail. If you don’t own a backdrop, shooting ...
Jan 11 Weekend Inspiration
Hello Everyone and welcome to the 27th edition of Weekend Inspiration! This week we have 25 photographs from 500px, Flickr, as well as from photographer’s personal websites. These photos are from both professional and amateur photographers, as well as so...
Jan 10, Episode 412 Battle
Phlearn Photo Battle The theme for this week’s battle is Monotone. Each of these images are great representations of what you can do with a monotone image. Using one predominant hue you can drive a certain emotion or mood of an image. Playing that hue wi...
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 ...
Erik Almas Interview Join Phlearn and Erik Almas for this extended interview and get a glimpse into the mind of one of the top commercial photographers in the world. This is part one of a multiple hour interview in which Erik and I discuss what we feel are som...
Adding Highlights In order to make the existing highlights in this image stand out even more, first we make the lights and midtones of the image darker using a levels adjustment layer. After that we use our channels to select out our highlights and paint white...
Jan 07 Contest
This Week’s Contest The theme for this week is shallow depth of field, so make sure to submit your images shot at a wide aperture. The Canon 50mm f/1.8 and Nikon 50mm f/1.8 are both amazing and inexpensive lenses for creating out of focus backgrounds. Tr...
Jan 04 Weekend Inspiration
Happy 2013! We hope that everyone had a great holidays! This week on our 26th edition of Weekend Inspiration we have featured 25 awesome photographs from both amateur photographers and professional photographers, and we even have some photos from the Phamily! ...
Lighting We wanted to keep the lighting fairly simple in these images in order to show off the detail of the beetles, but not become a distraction. It is also important that while the key light is almost directly straight on, that shadow and highlight definiti...
Adding Light Rays To add light rays to your image make sure you first have an image that will properly support light coming through. You want to have an image that is either lit from the back or from the side. If all of the lighting is on the same side of the ...
Dec 31 Contest
This Week’s Contest The theme for this week is “Color your images in post” meaning we want to see your images that have been colored using Photoshop, Lightroom or any other program. You can add colors to the shadows and highlights of an image...
Dec 28 Weekend Inspiration
Hello Phlearners and welcome to our 25th edition of Weekend Inspiration! We hope that everyone has had a wonderful holidays so far, and we hope you continue to do so into the New Year! With New Years just around the corner we tried to feature some photos that ...
Dec 25 Inspiration, Written Article
Setting Goals for 2013 The power of setting goals is phenomenal, but most people suck at creating goals. I know because for most of my life I was going about creating goals in the completely wrong way. Rarely did my goals result in anything and I had lost fait...
Dec 21 Weekend Inspiration
Welcome to our 24th edition of Weekend Inspiration! With Christmas just around the corner, and with holidays coming up (or have started for some of us) I have decided that this week would be a special edition of our regular weekend inspiration. This week we ha...
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