Great photographers are not born, they are developed. The habits we form as beginners play a huge role in that development overall. [ Read More ]
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How to Start With Fine Art Photography
Creating something new is the most important ingredient for making art. But we can’t create something new when we just capture a scene in reality. The trick is bringing an artistic concept to your photographs. [ Read More ]
A Strange Box Shows up at My Door and One of the Best Ways To Sustain a Photography Business
After a long weekend with too much food and too little exercise, I found myself receiving a gift that contained both a product and a lesson. [ Read More ]
I Brought a vivo X70 Pro+ to a Photoshoot, Check Out the Surprising Results
Have you ever considered using a phone for a professional project? I hadn’t but I was pleasantly surprised by what the vivo X70 Pro+ phone was capable of. Sure, it has all the technical specs with an imaging system co-engineered with ZEISS and their color correction technology built-in, but what was it like to shoot… Continue reading I Brought a vivo X70 Pro+ to a Photoshoot, Check Out the Surprising Results
Make Your Photos Look 3D With These Methods
Breathing life into your photographs can make the difference between an average shot and a masterpiece. But how can we bring life into a flat piece of paper? Depth is all you need. [ Read More ]
You No Longer Need Photography Skills to Be a Good Photographer
When you combine modern photography gear, even at the entry-level, with today’s post-production software, it has never been easier for people to get high-quality images. The days of perfectly matching time, elements, and light are essentially done. [ Read More ]
How to Take Better Indoor Pet Photographs
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the season of shorter days and more time spent indoors is upon us. Indoor pet photography can be tricky, but it doesn’t have to result in leaving the camera down until spring. [ Read More ]
Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (November 2021): Melody Mellinger
The Fstoppers community is brimming with creative vision and talent. Every day, we comb through your work, looking for images to feature as the Photo of the Day or simply to admire your creativity and technical prowess. In 2021, we’re featuring a new photographer every month, whose portfolio represents both stellar photographic achievement and a… Continue reading Fstoppers Photographer of the Month (November 2021): Melody Mellinger
My Bokeh Is Better Than Yours Part Two: How to Calculate Blur
In the first part of this series of two, I introduced bokeh — out-of-focus areas — and outlined the main controls of defocus. These include sensor size, focal length, aperture, distance to subject, and distance to the backdrop. How, then, do you compare defocus between lenses and cameras? Read on. [ Read More ]
Up the Production Value of Your Portraits With Topaz Labs
Perhaps some of the biggest dealbreakers for images are sharpness, resolution, and noise. No one likes a blurry low-res ISO 25,600 file. Yet, sometimes the client picks the worst possible file that is the definition of poor image quality. Luckily, Topaz Labs have developed AI-enabled software which lets you save your portraits. Act fast and… Continue reading Up the Production Value of Your Portraits With Topaz Labs