The post Weekly Photography Challenge – Trees appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Caz Nowaczyk. This week’s weekly photography challenge – TREES! These images of trees I shot while out on walks, and they were just taken with my smartphone. I gave them a warmer tone when editing. © Caz Nowaczyk If you are still stuck indoors, photograph from your windows, or step out into the garden (if you are lucky enough to have one). Alternatively, go back through your archives and do some brand new edits on your photos, like false-color infrared or black and white. Use backlight, sunsets, sunrises, intentional camera movement or close-ups of foliage. The choice is yours! I look forward to seeing...

Photo By Dawn Wilson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Ahhh, That Feels Good” by Dawn Wilson. Location: Estes Park, Colorado. “At the very beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, I realized, as I was sitting by myself in my truck photographing this elk and magpie, that social distancing was easy for a wildlife photographer,” says Wilson. “The bonus was this funny shot of what appeared to be an elk and magpie having a funny conversation. This bull elk just dropped his antlers the night before and these expressions almost made it look like he was telling the bird how good his shoulders and neck felt without that extra weight. This shot was taken just 15 minutes from my home in Estes...

How do you photograph extremists without giving them the publicity they desperately crave? [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Andy Day

The post Black and White are Rarely Black or White appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Herb Paynter. There are very few absolutes in this life. Most issues we face fall into more “gray areas” than the purely polar dictionary definitions of actual black and white. We use these terms rather cavalierly when expressing personal opinions even when real-life situations are anything but! This is also true in a number of photography-related issues. Since photography is the topic de jour, I’ll turn the conversation in that direction. I’ll explain to you how black and white are rarely black or white. Total black and white can lose important detail. Occasionally this is appropriate for drama, but in general,...

While dedicated studio lights are much more powerful, speedlights are far more portable and can be a perfectly viable substitute in a lot of situations, especially location work where full monolights would be cumbersome and tedious to use. This great video will show you how you can use simple speedlights and portable modifiers to shoot professional headshots anywhere you go. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

I primarily rely on Pick Flags and just the singular 5-star rating to tag photos in Lightroom Classic, but there’s a particular situation where I use Color Labels as well, and thought you might find it handy, too. Here’s a typical use for me: I’m doing a shoot (could be in-studio like this shoot above, or out on location where I’m shooting tethered), and there are multiple people working on this shoot. Maybe a model, a hair stylist, a makeup artist (MUA), maybe a fashion stylist, the client, and so on. To set up my Color Labels to use on this shoot, I want to give them names that work with what I’m doing. To do that, go to the Library...

You will often hear proponents of prime lenses tell fans of zoom lenses to simply "zoom with their feet." However, zooming with your feet will not produce the same image as zooming with your lens, and understanding the difference will give you lots of creative capabilities for taking more powerful images. This helpful video will show you the difference and the impact it will have on your photos. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

Photography seems particularly prone to creating an air of snobbery around it for a variety of reasons, and it can impede us in lots of ways. This great video discusses the problem, and it poses some greats points I am sure a lot of us will agree with. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

Photo By Tom Thomson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Singing his Heart Out” by Tom Thomson. Location: Radnor Lake State Park, Nashville, Tennessee. “A Carolina wren calling for a mate,” describes Thomson. “This was taken at Radnor Lake State Park in Nashville, Tennessee. Radnor is 20 minutes from my home. It was closed last Saturday along with all other state parks.” Camera: NIKON D850. Exposure: 600mm, 1/1000 sec., f/6.3, ISO 1800. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP 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 Tom Thomson...

Taking photographs of cities at night can be a veritable feast of colors, reflections, and light, but it can also be tricky. Here are my five best tips for taking shots of cities at night. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Robert K Baggs

The post Loupedeck CT Review – Could This Be The Best Editing Tool? appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Carl Spring. If you’ve read my previous review of the Loupedeck+, you’ll know I am a massive fan and it is now a firm part of my editing routine. As I said in that review, it was something that I was honestly wary of before trying it, but something I do edit without now. So when I got the chance to do the new Loupedeck CT review, I jumped at it.  The Loupedeck CT is a completely new editing station. Loupedeck has marked this as their professional tool, designed to deliver a premium editing experience. Along with the...

The state of California is taking legal action against the popular CBS show "Criminal Minds" for creating an "unchecked” environment of “intimidating, hostile, and offensive” behavior by the show's director of photography, Gregory St. Johns. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

Congratulations to Scott Anderson for winning the recent Close To Home Assignment with the image, “Buck Falls.” See more of Anderson’s photography at scottmanderson.zenfolio.com. View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! [See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com] The post Close To Home Assignment Winner Scott Anderson appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff

Today on our new Fstoppers Live channel, we had the chance to interview Vasyl Nykolyshyn, the owner of Raycrown accessories, about a brand new shoot-through octabox concept he has designed. Not only is this light modifier wind-resistant and easy to build and break down, but it can also be used off-axis as a large soft light and on-axis as a massive ring light. Let us know what you think! [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Patrick Hall

Lightroom Classic’s interface isn’t as customizable as Photoshop’s, but it can be changed in a number of ways to maximize the space devoted to your photos, to make your workflow more efficient, and to hide the parts you just don’t use very often. Panel Groups There are four main panels that appear in all Lightroom Classic modules. They can be manipulated as needed to allow you to control the size of the center workspace where your photos appear, as well as to only reveal the set of tools required for the task at hand. These four panels are called the Left Panel Group, Right Panel Group, Module Picker (top), and Filmstrip (bottom). Each of these panels can be collapsed completely by...

We are all familiar with the sound of a camera shutter. But do you know what happens inside your device when that happens? In this article, we’ll explain how a shutter works, and why you hear that distinct clicking sound. .stg-desktop { display: block; } .stg-mobile { display: none; } @media screen and (max-width: 768px) { .stg-desktop { display: none; } .stg-mobile { display: block; } } What Is a Camera Shutter? First, let’s define what a shutter is and what it does. You can think of it as a gate that opens to let the light into the sensor or film and closes to stop the exposure. In reality, a shutter is a complicated mechanical contraption. It’s not just a...

For some of us it comes naturally, and for others it feels like a chore, but getting your photo library organized (and keeping it that way) is incredibly freeing and is pretty much guaranteed to improve your photo experience both in the computer and out in the field. Pro photographer and Adobe Lightroom expert Jason Bradley simplifies this seemingly complex task and breaks it down into manageable, understandable steps you can take that will make your organization process streamlined now—and into the future. In his upcoming webinar, “Tidying Up: Lightroom Tools For Organization,” Bradley will explain how you can use Lightroom’s sophisticated organization features to take the work out of managing your photo library, whether you shoot hundreds of photos a...

Filmmaker and educator Caleb Pike has shot his fair share of video, and he’s put together a list of excellent hacks that he’s accumulated over the years that he is certain will make your life easier. Check out this short video, and harvest a few nuggets of wisdom. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Andy Day

The post Ways to Use Lightroom to Find Photos Worth Revisiting appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Rick Ohnsman. I don’t have to tell you these are abnormal times. Like many others in every profession, photographers are experiencing a huge decrease in business due to stay-at-home and social distancing restrictions. While we hobbyist photographers may not rely on photography for our income, we just aren’t getting out as much to take pictures. So, maybe this is the time to go “back to the mine” (your photo archives), to see if you’ve overlooked some diamonds in the rough worth revisiting. Let’s take a look at how to use Adobe Lightroom to find photos you might have passed over....

Photo By Zeralda La Grange Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Where the Buffalo Roam” By Zeralda La Grange. Location: Custer State Park, South Dakota. “While traveling through South Dakota this past summer, I was able to capture this panoramic of the buffalo grazing under cloudy skies in Custer State Park.” Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP 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 Zeralda La Grange appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff