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The Portrait Photographer's Quick-ish Guide to Studio Lighting Ratios
It’s easy to know good natural light when you see it, but artificial light requires command and control to create the look you want. Learn how in this quick...
Rob Taylor
28 Sep 2018
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What Is ISO in Photography? Here's a Technical Explanation
Most people understand the practical use of ISO, but what is it, where does it come from, and what's difference between ISO in film and digital? I'm going to...
Rob Taylor
15 Aug 2017
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Graphics Tablets for Photo Retouching: The New Buyers' Guide
Graphics tablets are a creative-industry staple. Every photographer and designer, and pretty much a requirement for any kind of digital artist or painter....
Rob Taylor
24 Apr 2017
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Motion Control With Arduino: Motorising a Camera Slider
The availability of cheap stepper motors and drivers these days allows ample opportunity for experimenting outside of the more expensive and complicated...
Rob Taylor
8 Aug 2014
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Shooting Photos for Skin-Tearing Illustration
Today, we're looking at the process from start to finish of creating composite work, particularly in this case for commercial advertising purposes. I'll be...
Rob Taylor
21 Apr 2014
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Smoke and Mirrors: Boosting Your Strobe Count on the Cheap
Not all that long ago, I was in the unenviable position of having only a camera, lens and flash. While the popularity of one-light tutorials and DVDs...
Rob Taylor
30 Dec 2013
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Quick Tip: Choosing Ambient Lighting for Your Workspaces
Lighting is important for actual image making itself, but what about the rest of the process? For the final images to look right, all the pieces of the...
Rob Taylor
21 Dec 2013
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Video Editing in Photoshop CS6 and CC
I've found that not everyone knows that Photoshop CS6 and CC have video editing capability (as does Lightroom 4 now). It seems to me that for the majority of...
Rob Taylor
16 Dec 2013
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How to Shoot Images for a Stop Motion Animated GIF
GIFs have a bit of a low brow reputation from being deployed on silly websites in the 90s, but they can be used for more sophisticated purposes. Our GIF will...
Rob Taylor
10 Dec 2013
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Quick Tip: Using the Background Eraser
The Background Eraser is one of many Photoshop tools that's a little tucked away, and many people don't even realise it's there. As it turns out, this is...
Rob Taylor
23 Nov 2013
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Wine Product Shoot: Conceptualising a Portfolio Project
A couple of weeks ago I was looking at a wine bottle on the dining table and wondered about photographing it. I forgot about that until last week or so when...
Rob Taylor
19 Nov 2013
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Three Shots, Three Lights: Bare Bulbs Edition
Time for another round of three shots, three lights! This time, I'm not just looking at three lights in general, but specifically what's achievable with only...
Rob Taylor
30 Oct 2013
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