PictureCorrect.com: Simple Tips for Better Portraits

Whether you’re armed with an expensive SLR or just a smart phone camera, there is an art to taking good pictures of people. With some thought and some practice you’ll be the go-to person in your group for taking photos. Here’s a collection of some simple but effective tips for...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Light-Painted Forest Octopus

The best thing about light painting is creative freedom. While we treat lack of light as a challenge in most genres of photography, that is totally not the case with light painting. Using your own source of light as a paintbrush, you gain the ability to paint whatever’s in your...

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PictureCorrect.com: Photo Tips for Rain and Clouds

Many photographers resent rainy days. It’s understandable: rainy and cloudy conditions are not ideal circumstances for lighting and gear safety. However, if you think creatively, it is possible to use such foul weather to your advantage. Rain and clouds can work as an interesting element in your photographs and elevate your photography. If you don’t...

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PictureCorrect.com: How to Add a Neon Background to Studio Portraits

Neon lights add a retro look to an image but they aren’t something that you can find in a small studio. Adding them in post is always an option, but it’s easier said than done. Neon being a light source in itself, it’s important that you get the lighting correct in-camera before opening up the image in Photoshop. Photographer Gavin Hoey from Adorama...

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PictureCorrect.com: Landscape Photography Rules of Thumb

Composition is considered the main key to a beautiful and high quality landscape image. Also, more attention is being given to the aperture in order to ensure that the image will be sharp from front to back. Photo by daveynin; ISO 100, f/4.0, 1/60-second exposure. General...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Milky Way From the Oregon Coast

It can be hard to imagine how minuscule we are as far as the universe is concerned. But if you want a visual reminder, try looking at a photo of our very own Milky Way. The following image taken by photographer Chase Dolan is an excellent reference. Just have a look at it, and...

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PictureCorrect.com: Car Photography Tutorial Using Strobe

Professional photographer Lizzie Peirce hails from Toronto, Canada. She’s photographed for some of the top car brands, including Toyota and Mercedez Benz. So, she knows a thing or two about getting the perfect shot of luxury sports cars! However, her process extends much further...

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PictureCorrect.com: Learning to See in Black & White

One hundred years ago, making photographs in black and white was a technical limitation; today it is a creative choice. It is somewhat ironic that after a century of scientific development to deliver cameras capable of capturing the world full of rich textures and colors, so...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Misty Magical Morning

Landscape photographers will often tell you that the best time to go out to take photos is during the early mornings. During this hour, it’s like Mother Nature also wakes up from a good night’s sleep. We get to see beautiful misty and foggy conditions in cooler places, and the...

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PictureCorrect.com: Understanding Equivalent Exposures

A camera has a powerful computer at its core. At the most basic level, it computes the best exposure based on a certain algorithm that manufacturers have developed. Mathematically, you can have multiple combinations of shutter speed, aperture, and ISO to obtain similar exposures....

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PictureCorrect.com: 5 Composition Tips for Landscape Photography

It may be hard to believe, but you can take very nice landscape photography even with the most basic equipment. You don’t need the latest and greatest ultra-wide lenses (although that does help create a unique perspective) or the fastest lens with an f/1.2 aperture. “SR 190”...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Star Trails Over Mt. Kirkjufell

It is always a wonderful feeling to first see the results of a celestial long exposure, because they’re often unpredictable. But if you know how the night sky behaves and plan your shot accordingly, you may have an idea of what will turn up—and you’ll be rewarded with some fantastic...

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PictureCorrect.com: How Diffraction Affects Sharpness in Photography

Who doesn’t love sharp images? One of the factors that affect sharpness is the aperture value used to take an image. Wider apertures have less area in focus. As the aperture is narrowed down, the sharpness gradually increases, and after a certain point, the image again starts...

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PictureCorrect.com: Backlit Silhouette Portraits: Photography Activity

This is a portrait of a person or thing, taken with bright back light, causing the subject to be rendered as a dark shape. You’ll need: A source of bright light (open window, bright sun behind a person outdoors, etc.). The sunset with water behind it is a great setting for...

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PictureCorrect.com: Interesting Photo of the Day: Jupiter’s Auroras

With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of the planet. Webb’s Jupiter observations will give scientists even more clues to Jupiter’s...

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PictureCorrect.com: Using Different Focus Points for Portraits

Today, cameras come with hundreds of focus points in them, while cameras in the past had just a handful of them. This is a good indication of how technology in the photography industry has advanced. But what good is having more of something when you cannot utilize it properly?...

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PictureCorrect.com: All About Tilt Shift Lenses (Video Tutorial)

Out of all the different types of lenses out there, the tilt shift lens must be the most interesting one. If you’re aware of it, you may know that it’s mostly used in architecture photography. And there’s a pretty good reason for it. However, the usage is not limited to architecture photography. If you’re wondering what makes the tilt shift lens so...

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PictureCorrect.com: Golden Hour Photography Tips

Of all 24 hours in a day, only two mean anything to photographers: the hour after sunrise, and the hour before sunset. That’s when the sun does its magic, casting a heavenly golden glow over the world, making mountains shine and lakes sparkle beautifully, hence the name. Photographers...

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