The Power of Black & White in Adobe Lightroom & Beyond (A Masterclass) by Piet Van den Eynde is an exceptional course on creating black and white photographs in Adobe Lightroom. For the emerging photographer, digital black and white seems like it’s simply a mouse-click away but the process to create exceptional monochrome images requires a systematic and knowledgeable … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Keith Lane
Since I can remember, there has always been a part of me that has wanted to be a photographer. The thought would bounce around in my head every time I watched the evening news of stories abroad, picked up a copy of National Geographic, or pored over photo books telling true and intimate stories. But while the idea was always there, I couldn't fully grasp exactly how it fit … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Nick Kingstone
There was a particular episode of the BBC show “Our World” then fronted by David Attenborough when I was a kid that really got me thinking. He’d managed to capture, in slow motion, this cheetah turning at full speed to try and ankle tap the Gazelle it was chasing. I remember him saying that “in slow motion we can see into the moment of the kill or the moment of escape”. Life … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Andrew Nim
Capturing a photograph was never really my interest when I started. I was always interested in the process of the darkroom. More in particular it was how light shined onto a piece of paper could transform it to an image using chemicals. I have always been a visual person; I’m horrible with names but things I see I always remember. I never even picked up a camera until I was … [Read more...]
40 Brilliant Bokeh Blur Photos
In photography, bokeh (Japanese) is the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus areas of an image. Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie … [Read more...]