Photography Tutorials

Whether you’re a hobbyist photographer, or a professional who specializes in portraiture – the secret for taking amazing portraits, is by helping your subjects to feel comfortable, and confident in front of the camera.

Pinterest is a fairly new social networking site (closed beta launched on March 2010) whose main service is to share photos, videos and links. What is most intriguing about it is that it allows users to create and manage theme-based image and video collections on what they called “pinboards”.

In this tutorial, in a short while, we will learn hot to to set the black and the white point, by using the eyedroppers contained in the Levels panel. This could be very appropriate for some scanned pictures.

Monochrome photographs are timeless, especially black and white photographs. They enhance emotional substance and have a disposition of making photos look more artistic.

If you’re an avid lens collector or you’ve just started to collect some, there are particular lenses that you should include in your collection. Here are some of our favorites.

Improving your photography skills can come in many different “colors.” Your first step should be to determine what your goal is.

Fine Art photographer Jessica Hilltout travelled to the mysterious African island of Madagascar. The stunning results can be seen in her latest body of work, IMPERFECTION.

You've likely seen HDR photos all around the net as photographers both pro and hobbyist experiment with this emerging artistic format. Personally, I was pointed to it earlier this year by a fellow photographer & friend, Darren, and I've been having a ton of fun with it since.

Today while sorting through some old boxes I found a photo album filled with the first ever photos that I took as a young budding photographer. I was around nine years old when I first started using our family’s film point and shoot camera and I still remember my Dad’s ‘training’ on how to use it. Basically it consisted of this advice.

Let's look at some of the most confusing terms you'll come across when working on images in Photoshop: image resolution, pixel dimensions and document size - what it all means, why it's so important to understand, and why you may not need to understand it at all!