While lighting often feels like one of the more complicated elements of photography, real estate photography is actually a great way to learn about it because most of what you’re photographing is motionless. While single-exposure shots without lighting are fairly difficult, adding a flash makes this a fairly simple way to photograph a room with…
This Back-to-Basics Photography Exercise can Improve Your Photography
Although the proliferation of smartphone cameras has made photography much more accessible to the masses, the variety of tools and features on most modern digital cameras means that people can often get away without really mastering the basics of photography. Learning to shoot photographs the way people did in the days of film is a…
Real Estate Photography Lighting Guide
Real estate photography can feel like a daunting skill set at first, but because it mostly involves static subjects, a skilled photographer can take their time setting everything up — including their lighting. There are numerous different photography techniques you can use for real estate, to include single- and double-exposure and HDR bracketed shots. These…
This Back-to-Basics Photography Exercise can Improve Your Photography
While the proliferation of increasingly-capable camera-equipped smartphones has made photography much more accessible to the average person, it has also had the negative effect of allowing many photographers to neglect developing the skills they would have gained in the process of learning how to use an old-fashioned camera. To hone those skills, try putting all…
5 Signs You’ve Over Edited a Photo
There is such a thing as editing your photos too much. For example, if you apply too much contrast, it can result in a lot of shadows looking unrealistically dark and deep. If you’re editing your photos with ON1 Photo RAW, you can use the J key to show how much dark black is in…