3 Tips to Take BETTER Photos of Kids

July 11, 2019 in Before/After Images, Children, General, Photography, Photography for Beginners

3 Tips to help you capture better photos of any children including your own kids! Do you have more tips? Share them in the comments below!

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Do THIS and you WILL become a BETTER Photographer

March 11, 2019 in General, Photography, Photography for Beginners

Becoming a better photographer is hard and takes a lot of work. Like anything you want to be good at, you’ve got to put in the time. In this video, I’ll tell you the one thing that I think will help you become a better photographer in 2019.

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ORGANIZE Photos in Adobe LIGHTROOM

January 28, 2019 in General, Photography, Photography for Beginners, Lightroom

Looking to organize your photos in Adobe Lightroom? ln this video, I’ll share my organization structure and some tips that may help you with your photo organization. The key is that you need a system that will allow you to find images in your Catalog when you want something specific.

To help you develop your own system, I’ve created a document with some tips and my organization structure in it for you to download for FREE. Pick it up over on my blog here:

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Real Estate Photography Tips

October 24, 2018 in Adobe Photoshop, Equipment, Lightroom, Photography, Real Estate Photography

Real estate photography is fun and a great way to make extra money! In this video, I’ll share real estate photography tips for beginners. I’ll also talk about how I capture flash and ambient images, then combine them together using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop to get one great image.

Some of the Tips I’ll talk about:

Camera settings - What ISO? What Camera Mode? What F-Stop should I use?
How High to set your camera on a tripod?
Best way to activate the shutter?
What is Exposure Compensation?
Where do I point my flash?

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Creating an AWESOME Photo in a Boring Location

October 16, 2018 in Before/After Images, General, Lightroom, Photography, Photography for Beginners

Believe it or not, you can get great photos even if you are in a boring location! Making great photos takes practice and thinking outside the box will help you create the awesome photos you want. In this video I’ll show you how to take an awesome picture in a driveway that a small puddle and some leaves in it.

Get out there today, find a boring or ugly location and test your creativity to see what you can come up with!

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Event Photography Tips

August 01, 2018 in General, Photography, Photography for Beginners

If you’re thinking about getting started in live event photography, it can be a little scary. There are a lot of unknowns. In this video, I’ll give you a few tips that you can keep in mind as you prepare and photograph live events.

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Shutter Speed Tutorial

March 02, 2018 in Equipment, General, Photography, Photography for Beginners

Are you looking to learn about your camera’s shutter speed? Shutter speed effects motion in your images - it gives you the ability to either freeze motion or show motion. Continuing with the series on the exposure triangle, in this video I’ll help you gain a better understanding of shutter speed. How to use it, what it does and when to use what settings. I'll also show you what different shutter speeds look like.

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Retouching Eyes - Part 3

June 06, 2014 in Adobe Photoshop, Retouching, Photography

This is Part 3 in a series of eye retouching tutorials. Using Photoshop, I'll show you another technique that can be used to enhance eyes in a photograph. For Retouching Eyes - Part 1 click HERE and for Part 2 click HERE. If you have any questions please leave a comment below. If you enjoy my youtube videos, consider subscribing. Thank you!

Twilight Sky - Before/After

June 04, 2014 in Before/After Images, Lightroom, Photography

Have you ever seen the sky have brilliant blues, purples, pinks, oranges and reds? Many times when we try to photograph these beautiful skies, the camera does not capture the colors as vividly as we see them with our own eyes. In this tutorial using Adobe Lightroom, I’ll show you how you can bring out the amazing colors that you know were there. Having your camera set to save images in RAW format instead of JPG will help preserve the colors and detail that you will be able to enhance in Lightroom.

One thing to note here is that these settings are what worked for this image and what I thought looked best. When I took the photograph I had an idea in my mind what I wanted the final result to be. The key thing to remember here is that you need to experiment with the sliders and settings to find what you like and what works for your image. With this in mind, lets get started!

Step 1

The first thing to do with this image is to drop the temperature and raise the tint. This will help make the blue look more blue and the hint of pink look more pink.

Step 2

Increase the exposure to .75 and the contrast to 75. I want the trees to be a black silhouette against the gradient in the sky.

Step 3

Adjust the Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks. The image to the right shows the settings I used. These settings will vary based on your image and the effect your going for.

Step 4

Increase Clarity. I like to use Clarity on landscape shots. I think it helps bring out details and increase the contrast a bit. Be sure not to over do it with the clarity, unless of course that is the look you’re going for. Increase the saturation. I typically use vibrance when there are people in the image and saturation for landscape images.

Step 5

Under ToneCurve I changed the curve to a medium contrast. I want to make sure the trees are black against the sky.

Step 6

In the HSL panel, I used the target adjustment tool to modify the saturation of the purples. This enhances the pink and purple colors of the sky.

Step 7

Add sharpening. The sharpening settings I used are Amount: 86, Radius: 1.4, Detail: 52, and Masking: 64. Adjust the masking as you need. If you hold down the Opt. or Alt. key while clicking on the masking slider, you will see a preview of the areas that are being sharpened in white.

Hold Opt. or Alt. while adjusting the Masking slider to see the areas that will be sharpened in white.

Step 8

Under Lens Corrections, I chose Remove Chromatic Aberrations to take care of some purple fringing around the trees.

Step 9

Add a Post-Crop Vignette. I used an amount of 38 and changed the feather to 100.

The image is complete! To see a before/after of your image, make sure you are in the Develop Module in Lightroom and press the ‘\’ key. This will toggle between before and after images.

If you have any questions or would like to learn other techniques in Lightroom, please leave a comment below. Thanks for watching and reading this tutorial!

Before Image (left) and After Image (right).

Retouching Eyes - Part 1

May 28, 2014 in Retouching, Lightroom

In this tutorial series I’ll show you several techniques that can be used to retouch and enhance the eyes in a photograph. In part one you will see a quick way using Adobe Lightroom to make the eyes in your photos ‘pop’ and draw the viewers attention to them. Using simple techniques, it is easy to take your images to the next level. Enjoy!

Gloomy Morning Photographs

May 05, 2014 in Recent Projects, General

Foggy, wet, a little cool outside. May not seem like ideal conditions to get out and shoot some photos, but I bet if you venture out you will find some interesting things. That's exactly what I did late last week. It was a cool, damp, foggy morning here in New Jersey. As I looked at the fog in the morning light, I thought that there has to be some interesting images I could create. So I ventured out in search of some interesting things to take pictures of.

Below are a few of the images I captured during my 1 hour or so of being out and about. All of the images are taking with the Canon 60D using an 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS lens. Images were imported into Adobe Lightroom for cataloging and post processing. Some of the images were then also brought into onOne's Perfect Effects for finishing touches.

How often do you take photographs when the weather is less than ideal?

One Way to Become a Better Photographer

May 01, 2014 in Photography

Go out and take pictures! That's right, the more you pick up your camera and go take pictures, the better a photographer you will become. Like so many things in life, the art of photography requires practice. There are many advantages to shooting more often. Not only will you learn your camera better, you will also further develop your 'eye' for photographs. Before you know it you will be 'seeing' photographs even when you don't have your camera with you. Then again we all usually have our phones with us, so why not take the photograph you just saw with your phone? Even on a rainy day like it was yesterday here in New Jersey, there's always something interesting to take pictures of. Here is one of the shots I took today:

Canon 60D  1/160th at F8.0, ISO 800, 135mm — Canon 60D 1/160th at F8.0, ISO 800, 135mm

Here are a few things that you can look for and think about in your daily travels to help develop your photographic eye:

Patterns
Textures
Lines
Diagonals
Shadows
Highlights

Filling the Frame
Framing the Subject
Forms
Shapes
Reflections
Colors or Lack of Color

Rule of Thirds
Leading Lines
Zoom in
Zoom in some more!
Go Wide Angle
Shallow Depth of Field

The best way to learn is to get out there any practice. Play around with settings, angles, motion and depth of field. You never know what you might create!