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Essential Photoshop keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow
You've probably seen me work in Photoshop by now and the single most frequent thing people say is, "how do you work so fast?". Honestly, the actual...
How To: Photograph Dogs Running – Action Photography 101
Post updated: 11th June 2020 Have you been stuck on how to complete stellar dog action photography? Well, if you have, you're really not alone. I...
May Challenge Review: Golden Hour
CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! It's time to go through the last month's Challenge entries, allocate those Pins (if you're lost, check this page here), and...
How to composite different exposures like a pro
Remember the "how to shoot in golden hour" video? Inside that, I showed how two different ways to capture different exposures, one manual, one...
How to find and remove blemishes in Photoshop
Everyone is so used to seeing dogs that I kind of felt it was about time we threw some human skills into the pot because, well, humans exist too...
How to shoot backlit portraits at golden hour
A request from The Request Box this week, how to shoot backlit portraits at golden hour. I think everyone adores the STUNNING light you get in that...
How to set the perfect white balance in camera
This is a question I get asked a lot because you guys often see me do one or both methods in videos and within courses, but maybe I went too fast or...
April Challenge Review: Portrait
CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! It's time to go through the last month's Challenge entries, allocate those Pins (if you're lost, check this page here), and...
Regional Result Notes: 2021
How do you move on from an international title? Is there any way to beat that or should you just retire and hang up your camera? I had shot a few...
Cropped Sensor V Full-Frame Cameras
I've been putting off covering this topic because there are so many parts to it that I worried that I'd end up just spouting technical things and...
How to do “Big Sky” dog photography
We've gone through flash basics, we've gone through the strobes or speedlight debate, and we know how to control out ambient and flash exposures....
March Challenge Review: The Last Year
CHALLENGE REVIEW TIME! It's time to go through the last month's Challenge entries, allocate those Pins (if you're lost, check this page here), and...