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The process of retouching a portrait in Photoshop doesn't need to be complex or take a long time. With the aid of a new tutorial from tutvid, you can learn how to become a faster and better photo retoucher in only five minutes.

The first step is going to be using Adobe Camera Raw to make some basic global...

 

 

In the newest episode of Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey, Gavin shows us how to capture a festive portrait for this holiday season. For this holiday portrait, Gavin shot the background separately from his model, which introduces not only a bit of complexity, but also some flexibility in how you...

Click here to read our Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 G2 Field Test

 

 

Tamron's 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2 lens is a distinct full-frame wide-angle zoom which impressed me greatly during my hands-on time with it here in Maine. It performs well across the frame and has impressive build quality, including weather sealing. The...

 

 

What an incredible year in the camera industry! Both Canon and Nikon released their first Full Frame Mirrorless offerings within a short time span, and just as the echo was fading from the response we learned that Panasonic will soon be bringing their first full-frame mirrorless model to the table as well....

 

 

Enthusiast-class cameras can be a tricky bunch to categorize. There's not necessarily a hard-and-fast rule for what designates a camera as an "enthusiast" model. They are, in many respects, top-of-the-line cameras when it comes to image quality and performance features. However, many manufacturers offer...

 

 

Premium compact cameras have been in existence for a long time, but their popularity just seems to live on even in the days of smartphones. And what's not to love? If a camera is relatively small yet still has a decent-sized sensor (and with these we're talking much larger than your smartphone's tiny sensor)...

 

 

Traditionally, photographers have used strobes to light still images. They're powerful and consistent, but they're not a constant light source so they cannot be used for video. As video becomes a more important part of the modern photographer's workflow, people have been looking at different light sources, ones...

 

 

In Capture One 12, there is a wealth of options for adjusting and editing the color in your photographs. Within this area of the user interface, there's a tab which is of particular interest to portrait photographers, the "Skin Tone" tab. This tool is useful, but it can be a little hard to get used to, as it's not...

 

 

Over at SLR Lounge, the team are getting back to the basics with a new free tutorial series. The tutorials are being kicked off with an episode about photographing nighttime portraits using only a phone flashlight.

Of course, you can get great results with expensive dedicated lighting equipment, but it turns out...

 

 

Christmas is just around the corner and Olympus has fun tips for capturing holiday images. Ted Colegrove, Olympus Designer and professional photographer, has created a tutorial showing off how to create Christmas tree bokeh.

You’ll need only a few items: a heavy piece of paper, a sharp knife (something like an...

 

 

The holiday season is in full swing and if you haven’t finished your gift shopping, you’re quickly running out of time. Fortunately, the folks over at COOPH have put together a DIY photography gift guide, featuring six gift ideas you can make at home for fellow photographers or for friends and family using your own...

 

 

In this week’s episode of Two Minute Tips with David Bergman, David will show us how to use negative fill to add drama to your portraits.

When you are first learning how to light a subject, one of the simplest and most dramatic steps you can take is moving your flash off camera. When you light a subject from the...

 

 

For the second week running, our Firmware Friday roundup is a relatively brief affair, with little news to report other than for Canon's Cinema EOS video camera lineup, and Sigma's Optimization Pro software package. In all, there are updates for six Cinema EOS camera models in the C300 II and C700-series,...

 

 

Zeiss contributor and photographer Brian Leary recently headed to Mexico City to create a series of videos about shooting time lapse photography. In the five videos below, Leary uses various Zeiss lenses while discussing necessary gear for a good time lapse video and showing us how to set up our cameras. If you’ve...

 

 

It's important to me for my hardware to look as good as it functions. I have to like using something in order for me to keep using it, and a huge part of that is aesthetics. G-Tech and LaCie get that, for the most part. Specifically, with the latter, I've been nothing but impressed with the last two products I've...

 

 

When Panasonic announced the development of their full-frame mirrorless system at Photokina 2018 back in September, it left a lot of people wondering what that meant for the future of the Micro Four Thirds system, with understandable cause for alarm.

The Micro Four Thirds system was jointly developed by Olympus...

 

 

In Photoshop, there are many tools which are much more versatile than they are often considered. An example of this is using a curves adjustment layer to automatically color grade a photo. This technique is explained in the video below by Unmesh Dinda with PiXimperfect.

The first step is to create a new curves...

 

 

Although often thought of as peaceful and safe, landscape photography can nonetheless deliver some scares. In his latest video, photographer Nigel Danson offers us a behind the scenes look from his trip to the Faroe Islands, including a visit to the “scariest bridge” he’s ever been on.

The islands are...

 

 

Earlier this month, we went behind the scenes with large-format film photographer Ben Horne as he made his annual autumn trip to Zion National Park. It’s a location of great significance to Horne on both personal and professional levels, and his love for the beautiful nature shows through in his work and his video...