The dream of being able to use efficient artificial intelligence to perfectly edit photographs (almost) on autopilot has been a constant in photographer’s lives for years now, a fantasy that every photographer has hoped would come true sooner rather than later. Well, it looks like that’s exactly what has happened with the new Luminar AI …
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Photographers see eye to eye on many things in the craft – using RAW file format instead of JPEG during your shoot, the value of presets and actions and great techniques to create bokeh effects. There is a great deal of clash though when it comes to TFP Shootings: to do or not to do …
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The world of photography has had many influential people, some that shaped and molded the art from its infancy, and some that carry the torch of creativity today. Creating in the form of photography has been a long road, one that has been challenging, and one that continues to challenge us today. Famous photographers throughout …
Photographers everywhere have a love/hate relationship with lens flare. Sometimes it appears at the most inconvenient times and sometimes is recreated in the post-processing process as a creative effect. A bright light that doesn’t match the overall composition of your photo, like one from a sun’s ray, that reflects as an anomaly in your lens …
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A fairly common issue for photographers is chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration also goes by color fringing, dispersion, or purple fringing. How chromatic aberration occurs is important for photographers to clearly understand – and how to correct it is a crucial skill to have. When taking an image, the camera’s sensor point of focus is the …
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“How to get a blurry background” is arguably one of the most researched topics in today’s photography. The reason for this being such a compelling aesthetic is, pardon the pun, clear: the blurred background brings the true subject into sharp focus. Your eye wants to draw naturally to the sharpest thing in an image. If …
Anyone who owns a Sony Alpha 6000, and Alpha 6300 or an Alpha 6500 for some time has certainly been waiting for good lenses with high light output that are not set so high at price, but nevertheless, deliver very good quality. Sigma already had very good and affordable ART lenses for Sony E-Mount cameras, …
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