Photographer’s Heroic Portraits Get Shelter Dogs Adopted
Award-winning “dogtographer,” Kaylee Greer uses her camera skills to help adopt out shelter dogs by transforming them into portrait heroes. [Read More]
Close-Up Filters Can Deliver Macro Photography On a Budget
French photographer and YouTube creator Mathieu Stern’s latest video discusses the wonderful world of close-up lens filters. Unlike some of Stern’s stranger topics, like working with the world’s blackest material and capturing travel photos with an infrared digital camera, close-up filters are something nearly every photographer might want to add to their kit. [Read More]
Don't Ignore This Underrated & Versatile Lightroom Feature (VIDEO)
Lightroom is so full of powerful tools and capabilities that it’s understandable when inexperienced users overlook some very powerful features that not only provide more effective results but can streamline their post-processing workflow. Today’s Lightroom Classic tutorial from instructor Brian Matiash falls into the latter category and it’s all about what you can accomplish in Lightroom’s Versions panel. Matiash is a very adept photographer and one of Adobe’s Lightroom Software Quality Engineers who shares weekly how-to videos for capturing better photos with any camera and editing them on any device. If you’re unfamiliar with Versions, here’s how he describes the concept: “Think of Versions as a hybrid between virtual copies and…
US Court of Appeals Unanimously Denies Copyright Protection for AI-Created Images
A unanimous federal appeals court ruled that pictures generated solely by machines do not qualify for copyright protection. [Read More]
Hidden Cameras Reveal Animal Behavioral Change at Watering Holes
Hidden cameras secreted by researchers at watering holes in Africa have found that wild animals change their behavior according to when people are around. [Read More]
5 Wildlife & Nature Photo Mistakes: How to Avoid Them (VIDEO)
The eye-opening tutorial below begins with a question from instructor Simon d’Entremont: “Do you find that some of your photos aren’t as good as you hoped, but you’re unsure exactly what’s wrong?” Maybe they’re blurry, lacking in detail, unsharp, or simply uninteresting. We’ve all faced this dilemma at one time or another, regardless of our skills. According to Simon, a Canadian pro and Canon Ambassador, the culprit may be your failure to understand the top five beginner mistakes that photographers make, and he admits to being guilty of these mistakes himself. In fact, we all get things wrong on occasion, but the trick is learning the errors of your ways…
Google’s New AI-Powered Editing Photo Tool Will Remove Watermarks
In a concerning development, people have been using a new AI model released by Google to remove watermarks from photos. [Read More]
Euclid Telescope’s First Survey Finds 26 Million Galaxies in Only One Week
The first survey data from the 600-megapixel Euclid space telescope is available now. The European Space Agency (ESA)’s data release features classified, detailed images of 380,000 galaxies and provide a look at the large-scale organization of the Universe’s cosmic web. Euclid observed 26 million galaxies in total in just one week. [Read More]
Capturing Blue Hour in Landscape Photography
The difference between a good landscape photo and an extraordinary one often comes down to one thing: Light. And there’s a magical window of time, called the Blue Hour, that offers some of the most atmospheric, cinematic light in landscape photography. However, many photographers overlook or struggle to fully capture its unique potential. [Read More]
The Difference Between Lightroom's 2-Best Color Tools (VIDEO)
Outdoor photographers go to great lengths when editing photos for perfect color, and there are a variety of common methods for accomplishing the task. This tutorial from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel cuts through the grease by explaining “the difference between Lightroom’s two most important color grading tools.” Instructor Christian Mohrle is a highly acclaimed German landscape shooter whose straightforward how-to videos are among the most popular that we share. Today’s episode compares Lightroom’s Color Mixer tool to the renamed Color Grading tool (formerly known as Split Toning). In less than 15 minutes you’ll understand the best approach to take depending upon the specific image at hand. Feel free to…
