In this post Dustin Carbonera interviews Set Designer Raffy Tesoro. Raffy has answered a number of questions as well as walking us through some of the shots he’s been involved with creating sets for. Everybody seems to be into photography nowadays. Everyone wants to be the person behind the l

Today one of our Belgian Readers, Morgan Moller, shares how he used portable flash units to light this chapel – as well as some lessons learned in tackling the task. Helmut Newton. Annie Leibovitz. Richard Avedon. These are just a very slim pick out of the photographers who, in their early car

In my last post, ‘Vignettes ‘ Lighten or Darken?‘ I discussed vignettes in brief detail and only brought up the issue of lightening the edges vs. darkening them. The word ‘vignette’ has quite a few meanings. In photography, it is the edge of an image and comes from the

In the territory of the DSLR camera we seem to have inherited a duality that continues, model to model. On one hand we have cameras with an APS-sized sensor, roughly half the area of the 35mm film frame. These benefit from the use of smaller, cheaper lenses, yet still capture well-accepted images.

One of the realities of Gimp is that it doesn’t have all the tools Photoshop does.  In her post How To Replace A Sky In Photoshop, Helen Brady used a feature called “Blend If” in the blending options panel.  This feature is great at helping replace a blown out sky but it

This fun Photoshop technique lets you showcase your photos on a computer screen or billboard and it uses the vanishing point filter to distort and crop the image. The Vanishing Point Filter was first introduced with Photoshop CS2 so you will need Photoshop CS2 or later for this project. Step 1 Ope

Whether you like it or not, most of us are constantly looking for ‘another Photoshop’, no matter whether we already have it installed or would like to have it. Many have no need for the extraordinary talents of this profound application but still have the need to fool around with our di

To sit happily with the company’s flagship and much higher-priced DSLR the Olympus E-30 had to forgo a few bells and whistles — but then it added a few that should delight photographers with high ambitions but little skill. The Olympus E-30 has 12.3 million pixels on its Live MOS sensor

Editor’s note: Due to technical issues we’ve lost the images on this article. Our sincerest apologies. For am more updated version try Deciphering Photo Jargon – Learn to Speak “Photographer” When I first started reading up on photography, there were quite a few wo

Editor’s note: Due to technical issues we’ve lost the images on this article. Our sincerest apologies. Cropping. It’s pretty much the first thing you learn to do to edit a photo. You don’t need Photoshop to crop (hey that rhymes!) – for goodness sake, even your pho

Editor’s note: Due to technical issues we’ve lost the images on this article. Our sincerest apologies. For an updated version of this article try this one. It’s no secret that I love to create montages. In my studio, I often edit a few special shots to create montages for my c

Today Ronan Palliser shares tips on how to capture the ‘first dance at a wedding. You are most likely invited to weddings every now and then, and I’m betting that most people bring a camera with them.  Chances are, if you looked back at your photos and compared them with those that

I really really REALLY love the editing process. I didn’t think there was any way I could love anything as much as I love actually taking photographs, by alas, editing has captured my heart. Isn’t it funny how there are whole worlds out there which we know nothing about? I have seen so

The debate still rages regarding what effects you can achieve digitally in post production and which ones you have to get from specialized glass.  Tools like Photoshop have certainly come a long way in their various blurring and sharpening algorithms as well as many other techniques that were

If you are like me you had a kaleidoscope as a kid. You would look through one end and turn a dial and the world would be displayed as a mirrored fractured shape. Thanks to Photoshop you can create kaleidoscopes from your photos. Any image with interesting color and shapes will work just fine. Step

When I first started using Gimp to edit my photos (because I couldn’t afford Photoshop), I remember getting jealous when Photoshop users would talk about the Actions they used to edit their photos. While Gimp doesn’t have Actions, they do have scripts, and while there might not be as man

This month’s critique comes with a twist.  The photo is from Gary Arndt who is currently two years into an around the world trip.  Around the world may be misleading, he’s roaming around, let’s just say.  I featured Gary’s blog in the recent post 8 Daily Photo

It’s getting tough out there in the naming business: Adobe’s got Lightroom — good name; Apple has Aperture — OK too; then it gets down to such words as ‘iris’ — and would you believe there’s a whole forest of irises splashed across the computer village

Photo Manipulation is, in my opinion, among one of the most fascinating photography techniques out there. Photo Manipulation is the process of editing a photograph in such an extreme way that it takes on an entirely different look. Photo Manipulation goes beyond mere enhancements or corrections. Oft

I stumbled on a new product, or series of products called SpeedLight kits from a new company called Lightshop Design.  What do they make?  Insanely cool light modifier kits at a decent price, the coolest I’ve seen on the market thus far. If McGuyver was in the light modifiers busines