Article Archive for February 2013
How to hold your camera
In this week’s Friday Photo Tip I show you some different techniques for holding your camera to help prevent camera shake. Accidentally moving the camera when taking a picture is one of the leading causes of fuzzy …
Learning Lightroom – Spot Removal Tool
This week we dig into Lightroom’s Spot Removal tool. Very often this tool is used to remove dust specks or other small blemishes in the image. In this video I will show you how I …
How to clean your DSLR sensor
In this episode I show you how to clean the sensor on your DSLR or mirrorless camera. To clean the sensor I use a LensPen SensorPen and KlearLoupe. This kit allows you to easily see …
Posing Basics: Using V’s for Composition and Framing
Using V shapes is extremely pleasing to the eye and can help add a lot of dramatic flair as it really makes the subject stand out. The V shape can be used for both composition …
Using a reflector
In this episode, Kerry Garrison (http://kerrygarrison.com) shows how to use a reflector to bounce sunlight onto a subject to help improve your natural light portraits
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Learning Lightroom: Fake Depth of Field
In this week’s Learning Lightroom video I show how you can use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Local Adjustment Brush to “paint” in a blurred effect that is somewhat like a short depth of field look. We …
Posing Basics – The Naked Shoulder & Full Back
Continuing in our series on posing is The Naked Shoulder. In this pose the subject’s face is turned towards a naked shoulder with the face in either full frontal or 2/3 view. Of course the …
