PictureCorrect.com: 📸 How to Establish Your Photographic Style

OK, you’ve bought all the right camera equipment. You have three camera bodies, 10 lenses, a stack of lighting gear, all the filters and attachments you can think of. You’ve read the manual and gained some experience in taking different types of shots, but you’re still not happy...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Barefoot in the City

Photography is about atmosphere. Creating an emotional response is as important as creating a coherent image: shapes of legs, a street, cars, a dangling pair of high heels. Here, we see those things, but it’s their abstraction by silhouette and bokeh that emit a feeling...

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PictureCorrect.com: 10 Practical Street Photography Tips for Better Outings

There’s no shortage of street photography tips out there. Some focus on gear, some on camera settings, some on philosophies. With information so scattered, you’d be forgiven for getting confused. Thankfully, we have an awesome video from photographer Roman Fox who shares the 10 best tips for street photography that’ll last you a lifetime: In this...

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PictureCorrect.com: How to Use Bokeh in Photography to Isolate a Subject

Ending soon reminder: only 1 day left for the new Macro Photography Guide at 75% Off In this tutorial, I discuss the technique of isolating the subject matter of your photograph using the focusing technique of bokeh. Bokeh is a Japanese word that roughly translates as the aesthetic...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Colorful Neighborhood at Night

Composition and other technicalities aside, colors play an important role in making an image come to life. We usually get so caught up with composition, light, and shadows that we tend to overlook colors. Capturing the right mix of colors help to set a certain mood to the image....

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PictureCorrect.com: Using Your Camera Wrong? Here are 8 Common Mistakes

Everyone is guilty of using their camera improperly at some point. Sometimes even the pros make rookie mistakes. But, nobody is to be blamed. The experts over at B&H have compiled a list of eight mistakes that photographers make with their cameras. See if you’ve made any...

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PictureCorrect.com: 5 Ways to Dissolve Your Photoshop Block

Have you felt this before? You open up a new pic in Photoshop for the first time, excited to start transforming it into something special. To re-create the beauty of what you saw at the time you captured it. And to turn the flat and dull RAW file your camera gave you into something...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Colorful San Diego Sunset

Photographers obsess over the golden hour. And there’s a reason for that. The lighting changes drastically (in a good way) and the sky puts up a dramatic show of its own. Have a look at the following image taken by photographer Jeremy Noyes in San Diego: “Colorful Sunset at...

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PictureCorrect.com: Finding Great Photos in Less Than Ideal Conditions

It’s easy to say photographers should wait for the best lighting. but in reality, ideal lighting conditions are rare, and waiting isn’t always possible. A better alternative is to develop your photographic eye and look for a shot that works within the confines of the lighting you’re facing. As photographer Thomas Heaton rightly points out in today’s...

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PictureCorrect.com: Macro Photography Equipment Guide and Tips

There are a number of ways to get into macro photography ranging from inexpensive to outrageously expensive. Tough decisions to make, especially for someone who doesn’t make their living from photography. Photo by Road Fun; ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/50-second exposure. If you decide...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Star Trails & Traffic Streaks

Although we don’t feel it, our planet is moving around continuously at great pace. And thanks to long exposure photography, we can record some amazing after effects of the planet’s movement. One of such effects is the formation of star trails. Photographer Marcin Zajac took...

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PictureCorrect.com: Inside The Bag of a Film Photographer

Film photographers, like their digital counterparts, have an arsenal of gear and accessories to help achieve the results they want. Today, we have photographer Kyle McDougall who takes you through his go-to film photography gears including camera, lenses, and other accessories: McDougall shows us what he keeps in his camera bag he showcases are not...

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PictureCorrect.com: 📷 Try These Visual Special Effects for Eye-Catching Photography

Although most all photographers are concerned with creating realistic images that copy everything as an accurate representation of a subject, in view of the fact that we are so familiar with these types of photos, when a photographer or graphic designer uses a special effect,...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Road to the Mountains

Nature definitely did not shy away when it came to blessing New Zealand. The landscapes are so beautiful that people visiting the country fall in love with the place immediately. Photographer Ellen Carty’s following image that she took along Mt. Cook Road is a stunning example...

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PictureCorrect.com: Studio Portrait Lighting: Reflective vs Shoot-Through Umbrellas

Umbrellas are some of the cheapest light modifiers you can get. But while they come in many different shapes and sizes, at the end of the day, they can be categorized into two different types: reflective and shoot-through. These umbrellas not only look different, but the images they produce will look miles apart. In today’s video, photographer Gavin...

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PictureCorrect.com: How and Why to Diffuse Your On-Camera Flash

I was recently asked a great question about how to diffuse an on-camera flash. This is an important concept to understand—not just how, but why! Today’s photo tip will explain diffusion and how to create and use it. “Pitiful” captured by latteda Here is the question I was...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Light Tube Portrait

Some great images are captured when photographers get lucky with the moment and lighting. But to make your images stand out from the rest, it’s essential that you take control of the light. This image by photographer Charles Brooks is an excellent example of how he takes control: “Light...

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PictureCorrect.com: Photo Editing Seamlessly Across Lightroom and Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are undoubtedly the most popular software among photographers today. While many use Lightroom to make basic adjustments and to catalog their images, Photoshop is widely used to make advanced edits. Thus, there can be circumstances when you want to take your images from Lightroom to Photoshop, and back. The good news is...

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PictureCorrect.com: Photography Zoom Effect: Racking the Lens

A zoom effect, in photography terms, is an effect in an image that looks like the subject is moving either toward you or away from you with lines of motion. It’s also known as racking the lens. The information in this article pertains to creating this look in-camera and not...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Milky Way Panorama

For many photographers, when night hits, the cameras get put up for the night. However, for those working in astrophotography, it is only the beginning. With an entire night of sky to work with, the constant movement of the earth, and a universe filled with amazing phenomenon...

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PictureCorrect.com: Wide-Angle Landscape Photography: 5 Mistakes to Avoid

Taking photos using a wide-angle lens can be tricky. The short focal length means a larger field of view, which allows for more distracting elements to creep into the sides of the frame. Plus, there are many other challenges that come with using wide-angle lenses, which can make new users prone to making mistakes with them. In today’s video, photographer...

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PictureCorrect.com: New! Creating Digital Dreamworlds in Photoshop

Have you ever wished you could master Photoshop to the point of creating anything you can imagine with your photography? This new eBook may help you take another step in that direction. It just launched and is currently 80% off today for the first 500 customers if you want to...

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