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Quick Tip: Choosing Ambient Lighting for Your Workspaces
Lighting is important for actual image making itself, but what about the rest of the process? For the final images to look right, all the pieces of the...
Rob Taylor
21 Dec 2013
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Video Editing in Photoshop CS6 and CC
I've found that not everyone knows that Photoshop CS6 and CC have video editing capability (as does Lightroom 4 now). It seems to me that for the majority of...
Rob Taylor
16 Dec 2013
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How to Shoot Images for a Stop Motion Animated GIF
GIFs have a bit of a low brow reputation from being deployed on silly websites in the 90s, but they can be used for more sophisticated purposes. Our GIF will...
Rob Taylor
10 Dec 2013
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A Quick Start Guide to Silver Efex Pro 2 for Black and White Imagery
If you're a black and white aficionado, you understand the allure of its silky tonality, its organic grain and its crisp detail. Bringing that into the...
Rob Taylor
26 Nov 2013
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Quick Tip: Using the Background Eraser
The Background Eraser is one of many Photoshop tools that's a little tucked away, and many people don't even realise it's there. As it turns out, this is...
Rob Taylor
23 Nov 2013
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Wine Product Shoot: Conceptualising a Portfolio Project
A couple of weeks ago I was looking at a wine bottle on the dining table and wondered about photographing it. I forgot about that until last week or so when...
Rob Taylor
19 Nov 2013
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Three Shots, Three Lights: Bare Bulbs Edition
Time for another round of three shots, three lights! This time, I'm not just looking at three lights in general, but specifically what's achievable with only...
Rob Taylor
30 Oct 2013
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Quick Tip: Like the Beauty Dish Look? Try This Softbox Trick!
If you're wondering about stepping your portraiture game up with a beauty dish, but not sure if the investment is worth it to you yet, I've come up with a...
Rob Taylor
27 Oct 2013
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Creating a Hip Hop Stage in the Studio
Part of having a studio space, whether that's a spare bedroom or an industrial warehouse, is the ability to create the illusion of location, whether through...
Rob Taylor
15 Oct 2013
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Quick Tip: Use Your Camera's Custom Modes for Better Quality HDR
It's fairly well known that the more close-together exposures you can supply a tonemapping algorithm, the better the final output will be. You'll get more...
Rob Taylor
29 Sep 2013
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Shooting Portraiture at Night: A Practical Tale
I love night shooting and night photography. I think it's the ambience that comes from a dark blue environment dotted with yellow-orange lighting. It's like...
Rob Taylor
24 Sep 2013
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Freezing Action With an Einstein Monolight
Introduced in 2010, the Paul C. Buff Einstein has been rapidly growing in popularity as tales of its capabilities spread via the popular photography blogs....
Rob Taylor
23 Sep 2013
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