Month: July 2010
Boudoir Photography: How to Enhance Your Images with Photoshop Actions
Boudoir photography requires great lighting, flattering poses, and often the use of photo editing using Photoshop actions. When doing Boudoir photography, you want the woman you are photographing to feel special and beautiful. And while you still want the photo to portray her, Photoshop can help enhance her most positive traits and minimize any flaws…
Pricing Photography: Too High? Too Low?
Pricing Photography: How high should you be prices be? Last week I ran across a photographer online who listed her prices in the sidebar of her blog/website. Her bio indicated that she was a “professional photographer” which of course is often used loosely in 2010. She said she had 5 years of experience shooting weddings,…
Macro Photography: Quick Tips to Get You Started
Summer is a fun time to try something new. Challenge yourself to go out and find those ever-abundant flowers or other wonders of nature. Get close! From flowers to bees to bark, there is so much out there with incredible detail. Now is the time to play with macro photography and grab the chance while…
The Secret to Creating a Vintage SX-70 Style Image in Photoshop!
Create a SX-70 Style Vintage Image Using Photoshop by Jen Kiaba Vintage is in, in a big way. From boutiques to magazines, everywhere you look it seems as though everything resonates with a tad of nostalgia. Personally, I love adding a little touch of vintage romance to my photography in Photoshop; when you pick your…
Photoshop Actions ~ Color Pop ~ Color Correction ~ Hue/Saturation
Sometimes Photoshop adjustment layers and Photoshop actions can make a huge difference in taking images from good to great. In a recent Photoshop online training class, I was working with Heather of HGJ Photography. Her straight out of camera image was really good. The lighting was pretty and the composition pleasing. I decided to show…
7 Tips for Adding Mini Photo Shoots Into Your Photography Business
Mini Photo Shoots: 7 Tips on How to Add These to Your Photography Business It started off as an idea to break up the late-winter lull. You know what I’m referring to – that January to March period where family shoots are few (because everyone just had their Christmas card photos taken), but it’s too…
The Ideal Focal Length for Portraiture: A Photographer’s Experiment
The Ideal Focal Length for Portraiture: A Photographer’s Experiment When framing a photo, have you ever considered the focal length at which you are framing the subject? The examples above represent the same subject, framed in the same manner yet they have strikingly different appearances due to the difference in focal length. Framing a subject…
Colors of Light ~ Red Green Blue ~ Sun Flare in Photography
Red Green Blue ~ Colors of Light ~ Sun Flare in Photography When learning about photography and color theory, it is important to understand RGB (which stands for Red, Green, and Blue). Without getting bogged down in all the technical stuff, you can see how colors mix in this image below. When it comes to…
Vote For Your Favorite Pictures for the MCP Actions Photoshop Contest
Semi-finalists for the MCP Actions Photoshop CS5 Contest Big thank yous to all who entered the contest to win Photoshop CS5 Extended. There were so many great pictures using MCP somewhere in the image. Here are the 15 finalists, chosen by my twins Ellie and Jenna, age 8. They had a very hard job narrowing…
Blog It Board Collage Photoshop Actions {Now for Elements Too}
Elements users, your wishes are coming true. We are working on converting more actions for Adobe’s Photoshop Elements. Our newest release for Elements is the Magic Blog It Board Collage Actions and Magic Print It Board Storyboards. For two years these collage and storyboard Photoshop actions have helped professional and hobbyist photographers with the full…
5 Foolproof Tips for Photographing Kids
5 Foolproof Tips for Photographing Kids by Tamara Kenyon I get asked a lot about which subject the hardest to photograph. Most often I get people guessing that it’s kids because they’re so busy and hard to direct. WRONG. If we’re being honest here, it’s actually grown men, but that is for another post. Kids…
What’s Next For MCP: Share Your Ideas to Win
As many of you may know, MCP Actions typically introduces one new live online workshop a year, 2 full action sets a year (one in the spring and one in the fall), and a holiday free action. Occasionally other small projects pop up along the way but this is the formula that has worked well…
Successes and Failures of a First Year Photographer
One Year Later: Successes and Failures of a First Year Photographer by Chelsea LaVere In the teacher world, there is a huge emphasis on the First Year. The First Year is all about what worked and more importantly, what didn’t work. It’s all about reflection, reflection, reflection. I am formally trained as an English major…
Retouching with the Liquify Tool in Photoshop: Is It Right or Wrong?
I sit here with microphone in hand. I was about to record a tutorial showing how to use the Liquify Tool in Photoshop. But then I stopped. I paused. And I decided rather than teach you how to use it, after all you can Google Liquify Tutorial, that I wanted to better understand how photographers…
Fashion Photography: Use Photoshop Actions for Dramatic Photo Editing
Fashion photography often looks amazing with more dramatic editing. Using Photoshop actions, you can achieve such a wide range of looks. This photo and edit was submitted by Camilla Binks of Camilla Photography. She wrote the following when she sent this image to me: “I know you didn’t ask for blueprints to be sent to…
Cherish Your Snapshots ~ Make Every Picture Count
Snapshots: It’s a word that makes many professional photographers cringe. As defined by Wikipedia, “a snapshot is a photograph that is “shot” spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent. Snapshots are commonly considered to be technically “imperfect” or amateurish–out of focus or poorly framed or composed… Common snapshot subjects include the events…
Contest: Win Photoshop CS5 and MCP Photoshop Actions
What does MCP Actions mean to you? This is your chance to use your creativity, photographic skills, and thinking cap to win Photoshop CS5 Extended ($999 value) or a $50 or $100 Gift Certificate for Photoshop actions from MCP. These are two independent contests running at the same time. Enter one or both. To qualify…
The Photographer ~ on a Family Vacation ~ with Kids
The Photographer, on family vacation, with kids by Kirsty Larmour I’m lucky, very lucky – my family (me, hubby, 2 kids aged 4 and 2) have lived in some awesome places and managed to travel to some even greater places in our time – but it doesn’t matter how far and wide you travel, the…
How to Photograph Your Family {And Not Be Left Out}
Photograph Your Family – And Yourself Too by Michael Newman As the “official” photographer for any family gathering I’ve done my far share of group pictures. It’s a given that I take my camera with me to any family event. And as always, I’m happy to oblige. Here’s a few tips for taking great group…
Turn a Snapshot Into a Portrait Using Photoshop Magic
Some photos start out looking like snapshots, even if they were meant to be a portrait. If the lighting and feel of the photo is strong, you can transform them using various techniques and Photoshop actions. This photo, submitted during a private training class, was taken by Maggie Ford. The image had so much potential…
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