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  • How to Use Focal Length to Compress Elements in a Photograph

    How to Use Focal Length to Compress Elements in a Photograph

    Marie Gardiner
  • A Photographer's Guide to Light: Noticing Diffuse Reflection

    A Photographer's Guide to Light: Noticing Diffuse Reflection

    Marie Gardiner
  • How to Adjust the Shadows in Photos Using Lightroom Classic

    How to Adjust the Shadows in Photos Using Lightroom Classic

    Jamie Evan

    • All Photographing content:

    1. A Guide to Perfect Portrait Posing and More

      A Guide to Perfect Portrait Posing and More

      Tutorial • Beginner

      As an aspiring-to-go-pro photographer or a casual shooter, it's important to understand the basics of portrait photography, whether your posing a spouse,...

    2. Quick Tip: The Rule of Thirds

      Quick Tip: The Rule of Thirds

      Tutorial • Beginner

      The Rule of Thirds. What is it? Why is it useful? How does it work? It's probably a term you've heard photographers and artists using, but you've been left...

    3. 10 Tip Guide to Getting Started with Street Portraiture

      10 Tip Guide to Getting Started with Street Portraiture

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Have you ever walked down the street, passing strangers who catch your eye. I'm not just talking about checking out attractive members of the public! The...

    4. Quick Tip: Ad Hoc Photography

      Quick Tip: Ad Hoc Photography

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Ad Hoc photography is by no means a technical term, and in essence it's probably as far removed from any technical photographic exercises that one could...

    5. 10 Top Terrific Tips on Creating Your First Photobook

      10 Top Terrific Tips on Creating Your First Photobook

      Tutorial • Beginner

      In the last few years, it seems that one of the latest photographic fashions has been to creating your own photobook. Now widely available through online...

    6. Everyday Images: Making Ordinary Pictures into Extraordinary Photography

      Everyday Images: Making Ordinary Pictures into Extraordinary Photography

      Tutorial • Beginner

      How often have you experienced the following? A friend excitedly invites you to view her latest set of photographs. You sit in front of the computer,...

    7. Getting Gorgeous Shots From Plane Windows

      Getting Gorgeous Shots From Plane Windows

      Tutorial • Beginner

      They say that half the fun is getting there. What better time to start shooting photos of your holiday than on the airplane shuttling you to your adventure....

    8. Quick Tip: 5 Top Tips to Get Started with Street Photography

      Quick Tip: 5 Top Tips to Get Started with Street Photography

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Street photography is a means of capturing society in the moment, a chance to document life as we know it, freezing human actions and reactions to the world...

    9. Shooting & Editing a High Speed Fruity Water Splash

      Shooting & Editing a High Speed Fruity Water Splash

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Every two weeks, we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in December of...

    10. Travel Photography Mistakes to Avoid

      Travel Photography Mistakes to Avoid

      Tutorial • Beginner

      Traveling to distant lands, or even around your own country, can be an exciting time many want to capture with a camera. But most of us know the dread that...

    11. More Than 60 Marvelous Medium-Format Photos

      More Than 60 Marvelous Medium-Format Photos

      Tutorial • Beginner

      As the world around us turns digital, it's reassuring to know there are still plenty of people out there embracing film photography. With the surge in...

    12. Video for Photographers Part 1: Shot Types and Moving the Camera

      Video for Photographers Part 1: Shot Types and Moving the Camera

      Tutorial • Beginner

      With the growing number of DSLRs that shoot video, we are launching a three-part series to help you adapt your photography skills to video production. Today,...

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