Photography Tutorials
Lens Flares can be a great way of adding pizzazz to an image, but only when used correctly. Bare Bulb + Shot Into Camera = Lens Flare Goodness
For the this extreme wide Angle tutorial we will discuss using an ND Filter, Lighting Diagrams that work, and provide you all with the finished image.
Today we are going to show you how to combine multiple images for exposure, removing elements, and cleaning up your images.
The key for this photoshoot was to match two different Lights consisting of our strobe matching to the light already underneath the bridge.
Behind the scenes of our Dark & Dramatic Photoshoot. We use a soft-box outdoors to try and cancel out some of the shadows.
Do you need the highest end photography gear? Aaron breaks down when high end gear does and doesn’t matter.
A student on a Death Valley photography workshop I recently taught groused, “My problem is that when I take a picture of a sand dune, it looks like a sand dune. It doesn’t look like art.”
See all the post processing techniques used in the Phlearn Pro Tutorial: Fashion Trip
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. Join us behind the scene.
Yesterday we took you through our process in coming up with the perfect lighting for a portrait of Chris, Phlearn’s CFO, and today we’ll be taking you through the steps we took in Photoshop to bring our final image together!
For an editorial-Style headshot, we decided we wanted lighting inspired by the likes of editorial photographers such as Martin Schoeller. We had to go through about five different lighting setups before we finally found one we really liked!
When shooting a Composite, it’s always important to start out with your Background. This gives you the framework of what your image will look like and how your subject will interact with their surroundings.
Step behind the scenes of our Film Noir Shoot. From Planning to Editing!
In this behind the scenes video you will learn how to set up lighting for a full length portrait as well as a headshot.
This shoot was inspired by Rankin’s amazing series of lips holding things like flowers. I have always thought scarab beetles were beautiful and this was the perfect opportunity to feature them in a photo.
One of the largest challenges we had to overcome to bring this concept to life was to design and build the main character. Being a photographer, this did not come entirely naturally to me, so I had to pay extra attention to my goals as a creator.
To create this fashion portrait we used a 3 Light setup and shot behind a pane of glass. To add a bit of Texture and interest to the glass we added baby oil (thicker than water) and lit it from behind.
The advantage to using modeling lights as opposed to strobes is that you see exactly what you are going to get, there is not guesswork.
Today we go behind the scenes of our Photoshoot for the Banished Mermaid Pro tutorial. We ended up doing, what seems like, 3 individual photoshoots while we were all set up.
Dan Winters is a great photographer who produces gripping work. He has a way of pulling emotion out of his subjects that will leave you breathless. Today we look at one of his famous portraits of Tom Hanks, and try to reproduce it.
In this episode we’re going over how to Light a bottle of beer. This is great for brushing up on your product photography skills.
See the BTS footage of our latest portrait, as well as a sneak peek of the other shot we did that day! This image was inspired by the crane and is part of a larger series we are doing on bird species.
Find out what it took to achieve our Dark and Dramatic image in this behind the scenes episode.