50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials - Smashing Magazine

50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials - Smashing Magazine: "Over the recent months we’ve been presenting various showcases of photography – while many readers hated the showcases, most readers found them inspirational and perfect for a lousy workday’s morning. However, what we should have done in the inspirational posts is not just provide you with some inspiration for your work, but also present useful photographic techniques which can help you to achieve optimal pictures for your designs. And as requested by many of you, now it’s time to correct our mistake."

Capture Sharpening - Digital Photo Pro | DigitalPhotoPro.com

Capture Sharpening - Digital Photo Pro | DigitalPhotoPro.com: "Optimal image sharpening is best done in three stages—capture (do it during RAW conversion), creative (do it in Photoshop) and output (automate it)."

Cool Lights - Digital Photo Pro | DigitalPhotoPro.com

Cool Lights - Digital Photo Pro | DigitalPhotoPro.com: "I know what you're thinking. LED and fluorescent, okay, I can see them as cool light sources. But HMI? Get real! Have you ever stepped close to a 24,000W HMI? Granted, a light of that magnitude does generate considerable heat, but we're looking at 'cool' here in terms of bang for the watts—energy and operating cost-efficiency relative to light output, as well as heat projection onto a set, not actual surface temperatures."

Cool Lights - Digital Photo Pro | DigitalPhotoPro.com

Cool Lights - Digital Photo Pro | DigitalPhotoPro.com: "I know what you're thinking. LED and fluorescent, okay, I can see them as cool light sources. But HMI? Get real! Have you ever stepped close to a 24,000W HMI? Granted, a light of that magnitude does generate considerable heat, but we're looking at 'cool' here in terms of bang for the watts—energy and operating cost-efficiency relative to light output, as well as heat projection onto a set, not actual surface temperatures."

10 Minutes Walk from Your Door: Weekly Photography Challenge

10 Minutes Walk from Your Door: Weekly Photography Challenge: "This week’s photography challenge is to photograph and share an image that you took within 10 minute walk of your front doorstep.


Image by Francisco Antunes
The topic was suggested by Tracey Norton Frederick on our Facebook page and was ‘liked’ by quite a few others – so we thought we’d give it a go."