Composition can make or break a photograph. Here’s a 7-minute video by photographer Peter McKinnon in which he runs through three tips to help you improve the composition of your photographs. McKinnon shares his tips with a focus on outdoor portraits, demonstrating how he would use architecture and other environmental elements to compose his images. […]
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There are no unbreakable rules when it comes to how you should compose your photographs. After all, who likes rules except for your old school principal or heads of H.R. departments? There are however, several guidelines you can use to help improve the composition of your photos. In this tutorial, I’ve listed 20 of these […] petapixel.com »
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These days, lots of photographers don't shoot photos according to the histogram. Instead, they look at the exposure preview and work off of that. But it's good to know and understand what the histogram can do for you.
Over the years, we've done several tutorials on demystifying the histogram. And indeed, I'll give it its merits and value. The histogram is a very important part of photography that's sometimes more accurate than the exposure preview setting.
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A team of computer scientists from Google, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley have created an impressive AI-powered “shadow removal” tool that can realistically remove harsh shadows from portraits, while leaving natural shadows intact.
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