Creating Vibrant Portraits with Catchlights
Create vibrant portraits with catchlights. Beautiful white reflections in your model's eyes make a portrait more lively.
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Create vibrant portraits with catchlights. Beautiful white reflections in your model's eyes make a portrait more lively.
Taking better photos with your smartphone (part 2) - by Bob Timroff, Photographing and filming with your smartphone (Chapter 6), suitable for people over 60
Taking better photos with your smartphone - by Bob Timroff, Photographing and filming with your smartphone (Chapter 6), suitable for people over 60
12 tips for zoo photography: practical advice for photographing animals at the zoo.
Luminar Neo and AI tutorial: Work with catalog, presets, layers and masks to manage and edit photos non-destructively.
Discover how to take impressive landscape photos during civil, nautical and astronomical twilight with the most beautiful light of the day.
When is buying a drone really worth it? A drone offers wonderful new perspectives, but also requires time, rules and post-processing.
A photographer can easily carry thousands of euros’ worth of camera gear. Should you rely on caution alone, or insure your equipment?
Restore old photos with AI and bring more detail and sharpness to faded portraits. See how GFP-GAN breathes new life into old family photos.
What should you consider when photographing books? Here are six practical tips for reflections, distortion, focus, settings, flash, and backgrounds.
Editing RAW photos? Follow this practical 9-step workflow for lens correction, white balance, exposure, color, contrast, and sharpening.
Four practical ways to improve photos in bright sunlight: use fill flash, seek shade, attach a lens hood, and work creatively with the sun.
How do you get noticed as a photographer? Learn how to make your work stand out and attract potential clients.
Learn how the rule of thirds, leading lines, and moving closer can strengthen your photos. Practical composition tips for better photography.

Taking photos underwater? Find out when to choose a waterproof camera, action camera, smartphone housing, or underwater housing for your mirrorless camera.
Photographing in the rain? These tips will help you protect your camera and create atmospheric photos of droplets, reflections, and dramatic light.
Five important values of light in photography: light has color and direction, and it can be hard or soft.
A fast internet connection makes it easier to back up and edit your photos online.
Why does the maximum aperture get smaller as you zoom in? Learn how variable-aperture zoom lenses work and when a constant aperture helps.
Color largely determines the mood of a photograph. Discover how to use color contrast, the color wheel, and saturation for a strong composition.
Displaying your photos on a website: The best way for amateur and professional photographers to showcase their photos online.
Want to take a great self-portrait? Explore tips on equipment, lighting, composition, depth of field, posing, and styling for stronger portraits.
Six tips for bringing overly bright and dark areas in photos closer together, both while shooting and in post-processing.
Cropping a photo: aspect ratio in photography is the ratio between the width and height of an image. Why is it important?
Ten practical food photography tips for beginners from culinary photographer Sid Ali.
Ten practical travel photography tips for aspiring photographers from travel photographer Richard Bernabe.
Ten practical tips for aspiring family photographers, from working with families to making choices that result in more natural, compelling photos.
Tips for enhancing the autumn colors in your photography, both before shooting and during post-processing in Photoshop
Learn how to create dreamy photos with long exposures, ND filters, movement, and soft effects—without relying entirely on post-processing.
Which profile photo works on LinkedIn? Avoid seven common mistakes and improve your professional presence online.
Practical tips for photographing flocks of birds with order, contrast, movement, silhouettes, and layered compositions.
How can you photograph your flower or vegetable garden at its best? Tips for photographing your garden.
Green screen photography is a useful image-editing technique for quickly and accurately separating a subject from the background.
Six practical tips for photographers who are just getting started with sports photography
Albert Dros shares practical astrophotography tips for photographing the Milky Way, meteor showers and a supermoon with the Sony 24mm F1.4 GM.
Creating a photo book is timeless. Today, there are countless extra options to choose from to make your photo book unique.
The new LandscapePro 3 software now uses artificial intelligence.
A canvas print is an affordable, personal way to add character to your interior—from your own photograph to a work of art on the wall.
Unfamiliar locations add an extra challenge to photography, but off-the-grid destinations offer opportunities to create unique images.
Landscape and cityscape photographer Albert Dros shared his process while photographing in Amsterdam in an online feature.
Google and MIT developers created software that edits a photo before it is taken
Tips for winter sports photography: capturing the best moments can be challenging. How do you take beautiful snow photographs?
My Photography Toolbox is a fun game for anyone who takes photos regularly and wants to improve their skills.
Want to take better professional portraits? Discover 7 practical tips for profile photos, coaching, presence, and relaxed portrait photography.
Planning a city break and hoping to return with beautiful photographs? These city-photography tips will help you prepare.
Photography tips from famous photographers on Instagram: the best advice for beginners from Instagram photographers who made it.
Planning to exhibit your photographs? Explore the distinctive qualities of forex, aluminum, Dibond, and acrylic glass.
The story of award-winning nature photographer Marsel van Oosten
Practical tips for photographing deer, wild boar, badgers, and other large mammals, covering behavior, camouflage, wind direction, and gear.
Learn how to use Photoshop's Ruler tool to straighten a crooked horizon or slanted lines quickly and easily.
Learn how to add a watermark to photos in Photoshop and automate the process with Actions without distracting from your image.
How Kodak engineer Steve Sasson built the first digital camera in 1975, laying the foundation for modern digital photography.
Learn how white balance works and how to set it for better color. Tips for daylight, artificial light, Kelvin, and custom white balance.
Kodak has recycled disposable cameras for 19 years and has now reused 1.5 billion of them. Here is how its unique single-use camera recycling process works.
How do you use flash in nature photography? Practical tips for birds, macro, and close-up photography, including the Better Beamer and diffusers.
How do you use super-telephoto lenses? Practical tips on wide maximum apertures, stabilization and teleconverters.
Want to photograph birds in your own garden? Read practical tips on feeding stations, backgrounds, lenses and camera settings.
Learn what a histogram shows and how to use it to determine the right exposure in this practical guide.

Learn how to choose aperture and shutter speed in M mode for creative exposure, and when it offers an advantage over automatic modes.
Most SLR cameras offer spot metering. How can you use it to take better photos?
Modern DSLR cameras can deliver excellent image quality. Which lens will help you get the most out of them?

Photoshop has become commonplace. Half the Netherlands says without hesitation, ‘We’ll just Photoshop that in.’ It sounds pretty cool—a piece of cake.
An overview of macro accessories such as extension tubes, close-up lenses, and bellows. What do you need to photograph subjects at extremely close range?

Still-life specialist Feddo van Gogh explains how digital photography and image editing radically changed his creative process and workflow.
Which photograph had stayed with documentary photographer Robert Knoth when this interview was published? Discover why this particular image resonated with him.
Join us in the field for practical bird photography. Learn about observation, camouflage, composition, patience, and photographing birds in the wild.
Which camera and lens should you use for bird photography? Explore practical tips on autofocus, telephoto lenses, exposure, tripods, and teleconverters.
Creating shadows in Photoshop: You can, of course, easily create a standard shadow in Photoshop.
Lars Polder explains how an external flash provides more light and control, with softer bounced light and more flexible lighting than a built-in flash.
Want to take better bird photographs? Discover practical tips on composition, behavior, observation, viewpoints, and equipment.
What does color management really offer photographers? This article cuts through the jargon and explains when it is useful—and when it is not.
Digital SLR cameras offer several AF options. What are they, and when should you use them?