The post 11 Portrait Photography Ideas to Inspire You appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Kevin Landwer-Johan. Coming up with fresh portrait photography ideas is challenging for many photographers. Whether you take a lot of portraits or are a beginner, it’s always best to have a few good ideas up your sleeve. So here are 11 portrait photography ideas to create great images of whoever is in front of your camera, starting with… 1. Communicate well Let your portrait subjects know what you want from them. Talk to them about what you are doing with the lighting, props, and background. This will build their confidence in you and show them you are serious about taking some great...

Tamron just announced a new ultra-telephoto lens with a massive zoom range: the 150-500mm f//5-6.7 Di III VC VXD for Sony full frame cameras. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Andy Day)

Tamron has announced its latest lens for Sony APS-C cameras: the ultra-wide 11-20mm f/2.8 Di III-A2 RXD — the first APS-C lens of its type to offer such a fast maximum aperture. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Andy Day)

The concept of creating a mirrorless system is very similar in the case of all the camera manufacturers: get rid of the mirror and create a new lens mount closer to the sensor. What if there was another option to do it, arguably a better one? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Amadeusz Andrzejewski)

Photoshop is full of a variety of tools, and there are many different ways to accomplish the same task, some more time-consuming than others. One of the most powerful time-saving tools out there is Content Aware Fill. This excellent video tutorial will show you how the tool works and how to get the most out of it to make better photos. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

We talk a ton about front-lighting and backlighting quite a bit, but of course, you do not always have to work with the sun directly behind you or in front of you. Side-lighting is another option, and it offers a powerful tool for bringing out the texture in your frame. This excellent video tutorial will show you how side-lighting can be used to highlight the texture in an image. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Wedding photography is a high-stakes genre, with a lot of must-have shots for which you do not get a second chance. This excellent video tutorial discusses seven easily missed wedding photos and what you can do to make sure you get all the shots. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

By far, one of the most common retouching tasks you will undertake is whitening someone's teeth. Luckily, unlike some other editing requests, whitening teeth is a fairly straightforward and quick process. This excellent video tutorial will show you how to do it in Photoshop. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Photo By Kim Hang Dessoliers Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Lancaster Super Bloom [2019]” by Kim Hang Dessoliers. Location: Lancaster, California. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Kim Hang Dessoliers appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff

The arrival of the Canon EOS R5 changed the landscape for those looking to by a high-end full frame hybrid camera, and changed even further after Sony’s release of the a1. How do you choose which one to buy? [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Andy Day)

Venus Laowa, a lens manufacturer known for their off-beat collection of manual focus lenses has launched a series of free live stream events on its Facebook page called "Meeting Masters." For the rest of the year, the company will be hosting photographers from all over the world to cover various topics related to photography using Laowa's collection of lenses. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Dylan Goldby)

The post Smartphone RAW Photography: An Easy Way to Improve Your Photos appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Ana Mireles. What is smartphone RAW photography, and how can you set up RAW imaging on your phone? If high-quality photos are your goal, you must know how to do smartphone RAW photography. For a long time, only standalone cameras supported RAW format. But these days, many smartphone manufacturers are including it as a feature on their devices – and in this article, I’ll share with you step-by-step instructions for capturing RAW photos on iPhones, Samsung phones, and Huawei phones. And in case your native camera app doesn’t support RAW, I’ll include a list of third-party apps that produce...

Myra Holt is a fine art photographer and educator currently based in Kansas City. Her work explores a range of concepts, but they all stem from the broader idea of connection to places, people, and nature. I spent a morning chatting with her to learn more about two of her bodies of work and what advice she has for newer photographers wanting to create photographic series. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Abby Ferguson, MFA)

Welcome back! Last week I started exploring how to make the most of the local adjustment editing tools when it comes to further refining them with the new Range Mask function, auto masking, and erasing with the brush. In some instances, we may find that a combination of them all is what is needed to get the job done. Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, and Brush Let’s look at another example where I want to use a Graduated Filter across the sky to darken and slightly desaturate the sky furthest from the sun in a gradual fade toward the sun, but not affect the foreground at all. After selecting the Graduated Filter from the Toolstrip (or any of the local adjustment tools),...

For a lot of photographers, the 70-200mm f/2.8 is the most important lens in their bag, covering a huge range of scenarios and needs. However, such lenses are considered professional optics and are often quite expensive. However, the Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD sits at about half the price of comparable options and still offers good performance and image quality, and this fantastic video review shows exactly what you can expect from it. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Polaroid has launched a new pocketable instant camera with its very own smaller film format. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Matt Murray)

Today, Apple announced a new vibrant series of iMacs, all powered by the M1 chip. With a 24" display and 11.5 mm in thickness, they are a departure from the established iMac design. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Illya Ovchar)

Sony today introduced a fast, ultra-wide prime ideal for landscape and astrophotography. The Sony FE 14mm F1.8 G Master becomes the 14th lens in Sony’s top-tier G Master line and the widest E-mount prime lens. Sony representative stated that the company set out to “Reinvent the ultra-wide large aperture prime,” when engineering this lens, and it is remarkably lightweight and compact for a wide-angle lens with a fast maximum aperture. It measures just 4 inches in length and just under 3.4 inches in diameter and weighs 16.3 ounces. The Sony FE 14mm F1.8 G Master is very compact for a lens of this focal length and speed. This is a rectilinear lens, meaning that it produces no barrel distortion, and Sony...

The Sony a1 might just be the most impressive camera ever released, with specs and features that let it tackle just about any photo or video scenario you can throw at it, no matter how demanding. This excellent video review takes a look at the camera for both photo and video applications and the sort of output quality and performance you can expect from it in real-world usage. [ Read More ]Original link(Originally posted by Alex Cooke)

Arrow Dynamic. The relationship that sand verbena have with dunes is truly remarkable. Somehow this hostile, wind-blasted environment is exactly where the delicate pink blossoms thrive. As someone who spends most of her time in wilderness environments, I felt a strong affinity for the small, vulnerable plant toughing it out in an inhospitable area. Not every photographer can pinpoint specific moments in life that helped to steer their creative sensibilities. The development of a personal approach typically looks fairly messy in hindsight, and usually photographers experience a random progression more than anything especially deliberate. When it comes to tracing a creative trajectory, a photographer’s body of work often has to speak for itself. So, I may be something of an oddball...