Exposure Blending And The High Dynamic Range Mindset
Exposure blending is an advanced post processing technique for creating HDR images. Peyton Hale lays out some of the options for this powerful technique.
Tutorials
Digital photography tips and tutorials on everything from sports photography to wildlife and fashion photography.
Are You Struggling To Sell Prints Online? Let’s Change That!
Selling prints online can be a tough business. Here’s how to use affiliates to increase online print sales and create a global network of virtual sales reps to help promote your work.
10 of the Top Free Photography WordPress Themes
WordPress is an incredibly powerful platform for a photography website and yours can be enhanced with any of these free photography WordPress themes.
Photoshop Tutorial: How To Turn Your Panoramic Photos Into Instagram Videos
Panoramic photos can be tough to display on Instagram. Find out how you can use Photoshop to create a panning video of your pano to upload to Instagram!
Understanding Aperture
Understanding aperture, and the effect it has on your images, is a key component to becoming a better photographer. Which f-stop should you choose and why?
Improving Your Print Sales Page With Rendered Examples
I’m on a journey at the moment to make print sales a larger part of my business model and I want to bring you guys on the journey with me. Last week I wrote about numbering print editions and this week I have a quick and simple tip that will spruce up your photography website and help customers imagine your images on their walls. In researching how I wanted to tackle print sales, I must have been on over 50 websites from other photographers who also sell prints of their work. Whenever a photographer also had a physical gallery space, there …
Multimedia Mountain Bike Productions – Shooting Photos and Video At The Same Time
Shooting the world around us is what every photographer and filmer does, it just so happens that for as long as I have been shooting, that world has been full of big mountains and bikes. My name is Jacob Gibbins and I’m a freelance photographer, filmmaker and one half of Aspect Media based in the UK. I’ve been self-employed and travelling the world photographing and documenting the sport I love, mountain biking since I was 15. Now 22, things are busier than ever and my photography has evolved from just snapping some photos of my mates down the local trails, to spending …
Numbering Your Fine Art Print Editions
I’ve never really featured print sales as a part of my business model up to this point in my career. For a long time, the type of photography I was doing editorially and commercially just didn’t lend itself to print sales. The kind of image I might sell to a large company like Nike or Red Bull was great for a eye-catching advert, but rarely was it something most people would hang on their wall for an extended period of time. Though many posters have adorned the walls of teenager’s bedrooms, these are far from “Fine Art” sales. Recently I’ve really …
The Dark Art Of Film Photography
In an earlier post here on Shutter Muse, I revealed how seductive the call of film photography can be, and that even the oldest, most basic cameras can present a rewarding learning curve. I’m writing this little update several months later to say that first spark of curiosity has led to an ongoing shift in my photographic processes and priorities.
Is Micro Four Thirds The Best Travel Photography System?
Professional travel photographer Jacob James asks the question “Is Micro Four Thirds The Best Travel Photography System?” and evaluates the Panasonic GH4.