Camera Technique

Double Pass & Hybrid Sharpening

Different sharpening techniques make the world look different. \

Vision To Visuals: Keeping It Real

Imagine experiencing a parallel reality of our world that serves as an antidote to our pervasive media culture, which undermines women's sense of self-image and confidence through its artificial constructs of beauty.

Lighting For B&W

High-key black-and-white portraiture has been popular since Hollywood's golden era.

Car Shots

Automotive art is favored by those immersed in car culture.

Output Sharpening

Image source, frequency of detail, subject, personal preference, output device, substrate or presentation device, and presentation size all play a role in sharpening.

Going Viral

August Bradley is known for photography that's incredibly detailed and highly stylized, with deep literary references and complex, psychological motifs.

Vision To Visuals: Culture Club

Of all experiences in New York City that can make a newcomer feel like an instant New Yorker, spending an evening in one of the city's famed nightclubs has to be among the top five.

Shooting For Post

Usually, blowing off details when you shoot because you know you can fix them in Photoshop isn't a good idea, and often it's not as possible or as easy as you think. However, making images around a concept that uses Photoshop to pull it off is a great...

The Art & Craft Of Modern Storytelling

The photo essay came of age in the heyday of the large-circulation, general-interest print magazines.

The Biggest Shoot Of Your Life

There are many differences between the way a professional photographer works and the way an amateur works, but the biggest of them can be callously summed up by money because quality costs money. ...

Layers & Creative Sharpening

In this issue, we're going to examine how to use layers to gain finer control over the USM when you're using it creatively. There are many ways to modify sharpening effects using layers.

Capture Sharpening

Optimal image sharpening is best done in three stages—capture (do it during RAW conversion), creative (do it in Photoshop) and output (automate it).

Master The Family Of Angles

Most professionals are well versed in lighting techniques for their particular subject matter.

Creative Sharpening, Part I

The vast majority of photographic images benefit from sharpening.

Using Lens Profiles

Take A Bite

In this excerpt from the book, you can get helpful tips on some of the most important aspects of this specialized class of image-making. ...

Blend It Out!

It’s a perfect shot! If only those unwanted moving objects (UMOs, i.e., a person or a crowd) in the scene would disappear. ...

The Art Of Elimination

As visual communicators, we’re responsible for everything that’s in the frame; we’re also responsible for everything that’s not in the frame. ...

Noise–Lose It

Some noise is random; some noise is fixed. Hot-pixel noise is fixed. What are “hot pixels”?

Reduce Noise With Multiple Shots

Got noise in one exposure? Make a bunch of exposures and watch the noise disappear.

Wet-Plate Digital?

It was sometime during the ’80s, with electronic imaging evolving, when I heard about a photographer named Jody Dole, who was doing interesting things with imaging software and Iris printers.

Lose Noise With Plug-Ins

Who doesn’t have noise? If you don’t run into noise in your digital images, at least once in a while, you may not be pushing the envelope enough.

Digital Manipulation And The Flair Of Subtlety

Digital photography has transformed the fine-art world.

Blur Color Noise In Photoshop

When you have noise in an image, there’s a lot you can do about it.