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Enhance Contrast In this tutorial one of our senior members from our forums Japaslavian (Jeff Masamori over at Flickr) shares a simple photoshop technique for enhancing contrast. This is probably the most useful little adjustment I’ve come across (in Photoshop) just playing around a few years ago. It has served me well, and I hope it will do the same for you all, as there is not a single photo I have ever taken that does not look better without it. NEVER. Very very simple. 1.

Blue Pueblo Ancient Door, Tuscany, Italy photo via susan Spring Green, The Enchanted Wood photo via villians Balconies, Riverside, California photo via gina 25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos Getting a little bored how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humor into it. You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects into your photos. There’re some really great sites out there that allows you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect-templates. Photoflex Lighting School Basic Lighting A good place to start. These lessons demonstrate professional lighting techniques using only basic lighting tools. Having good lighting equipment is important, but knowing how to use it well is paramount!

Strobist Lighting101 (Photo by Strobist reader Sam Simon) Welcome to Lighting 101. You may not realize it yet, but you have just stepped through a door that may change your photography forever. Over the past few years, over four million people from nearly every country in the world have begun their lighting education right here. And if they can do it, you can do it. Photography is literally writing with light. Fujifilm XT1 quality In my first comparison below I chose to use variable aperture kit zooms to illustrate the kind of quality difference you can expect from each system in practice. If you're interested in the quality from prime lenses, please head straight to my noise results pages. Unfortunately there aren't equivalent zooms for both systems in range, aperture or price though, so one system will always come off worse than the other optically in such a comparison. In this case it's the OMD EM1 which suffers as its 12-50mm kit zoom is around half the price of the Fujifilm 18-55mm and as you'll see below, this shows as you approach the edges of the frame. I could have gone for the Olympus 12-40mm f2.8, but it's even more expensive than the Fujifilm 18-55mm and in a different category as a professional grade constant aperture lens. The crops below start from the center of each image where both lenses should perform at their best.

Increase Your Portrait Revenue Here’s a few ideas that will actually increase your portrait revenue…. trust me these are tried and tested in the height of a recession! It’s not about the hard sell but you do need to be able to say no once and a while. Always charge a shoot fee. Even if you give it back as product credit you’ll still have the client financially committed.Raise your prices and throw away your old price lists. Don’t be tempted to offer old clients old prices. That was the old you…… you’re more experienced, spent lots more on bettering yourself and your product…… your prices should reflect that.PROJECT! Storytelling in Concept Photography. Part III: Tools to Develop Your Story In this final part of the series, I will describe some of the tools I use to generate and develop story ideas to make them compatible with the photographic medium. You can find Par 1 and Part 2 of this series here: Storytelling In Concept Photography.