"I’ve had a number of posts, email, and even phone calls from friends, asking about when they would need a permit to shoot, and how to go about getting one. This isn’t an easy question to answer, because every city and every location has i ...

Dave Hill look at Flickr Beers with Dave Hill at Strobist Creating that Dave Hill look at DIYPhotography Cool gritty look in camera raw photoshop and lightroom by Scott Kelby Lucisart Photoshop plugin review at Scott Kelby ...

Now, let me say this up front: From the research I’ve done, I don’t believe photographer Dave Hill actually uses a Photoshop plug-in; I believe he creates his look without a plug, using a series of layer blend modes, High Pass Sharpening, Ski ...

"Using pretty much the same lighting set-up; natural window light, along with a Westcott Daylight Fluorescent Spiderlite with a 24x32 softbox as a fill light, and a small handheld white reflector to fill in the shadows xon the opposite side ...

Have you ever dreamed of seeing your travel photos published on the cover of Lonely Planet?  Well now’s your chance… Lonely Planet, the world-leading travel guide publisher and Pikeo.com, the new photo-sharing website, are inviting photogr ...

I find the family photo part of the day can be quite stressful. People are going everywhere, you’re unaware of the different family dynamics at play and people are in a ‘festive spirit’ (and have often been drinking a few spirits) to the poin ...

Creating a surreal scene in photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show the steps I took to design this absolutely magical, floating Eiffel Tower scene in Photoshop. The inspiration of this tutorial came from this wonderful design done by mat ...

iStockPhoto The idea was simple, horrible, successful and completely revolutionary. To inject some competition into a stock photography market now dominated by one big company was no bad thing. But to do it by making the images royalty-fre ...

Getting started using white balance, tone & vibrance presets. Monochrome: Using the Black & White conversion, tints & vignette presets. Color Effects: Using HSL presets and manual adjustments. See it in Action: Full w ...

In this Photoshop tutorial I'll show you how to create realistic reflections on water already present in your favorite photographs. Let me begin by saying just a few things about this effect. First and foremost, this is one of those techni ...

Noise is the bane of digital photographers. The best way to deal with noise is to try and avoid it in the first place. But sometimes you’re faced with shooting in available darkness and the only way to get the shot is to crank up the ISO. In ...

Hoping to make some money to pay for a new camera or a bigger lens? Anyone can earn money from there photography hobby. Below is a list of events that you can shoot (it is often as easy as picking up the phone) and make some money to support ...

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Always, always, always edit down. This is the mistake I used to make. I’d shoot like a bat outa hell, determined to get at least a handful of great shots from each sitting, then I’d deliver nearly all the images to my client on a disk. Thus t ...

Compact, pocket models occupy the largest section of the digital camera market, and vary wildly in terms of features and price. Still, a compact camera is often the best choice for a newbie, who needs more guidance and automatic modes than a ...