Winning the Best Amateur Contests for Photography
If you don’t enter, you won’t win. Winning the best photo contests will gain you recognition in the photography world on top of winning …
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Documentary Photography: Quality vs Quanity and Framed vs From the Hip
There are a number of strategies for documentary photography. You might choose to shoot a lot quickly, or you may work slowly and carefully. You can …
Continue ReadingJan Saudek Photography: The Most Famous Czech Photographer
Jan Saudek is a Czech photographer who has focused on photographing the body since the 1950s. His images of people are aesthetically beautiful but …
Continue ReadingMan Ray: Surrealism & Photographic Invention
Man Ray was a photographer who was an important part of the birth if surrealism in the 1920s. His photography pushed the boundaries of the medium and …
Continue ReadingPublic Relations Photographer: More than Just Taking Pictures
A public relations photographer must learn how to use their skills to market his clients in the best light possible. Using education resources, talent …
Continue ReadingThe Biggest Photoshop Fails
Making a mistake in Photoshop is easy, but the truly epic mistakes require concentrated effort. From cutting off and adding extra limbs to offending …
Continue ReadingFine Art Photographers Bernd And Hilla Becher
Bernd and Hilla Becher are a husband-and-wife team of German photographers, best known for their extensive series of photographs of the industrial …
Continue ReadingProblems and Solutions in Architectural Photography
Photographing architecture presents its own special set of problems, especially if you want your images to accurately record the buildings you shoot. …
Continue ReadingSocial Documentary Photography of the 1920s and 1930s
Social documentary photography became popular in the 1920s and 1930s as it showed life as it was. This “new objectivity” allowed …
Continue ReadingPhotoshop: Fixing White Eye Brightness & Bloodshot Eyes
Sometimes the camera isn’t so kind to our eyes. Sometimes they might not seem as bright as we want them to, or we get shadows cast across them. …
Continue ReadingApplying a Sepia Filter to Digital Images in Photoshop
If you’re like a lot of people and love that rustic, classic feel that sepia-toned images have, you might be excited to know that this is a very …
Continue ReadingCreating a Custom Photoshop Brush: Raining Effects for Digital Photos
In every life a little rain must fall, but if you’re like me, you probably don’t mind! If you love the way rain looks in photographs but …
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