Types of Photography

Learn about the different types of photography, from studio to portrait and from still life to street photography. Follow tutorials in a range of genres.

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Light

3 Natural Portraits With Window Light

Tutorial • Beginner

Photographing portraits with available light has many advantages. In this tutorial, we'll explore one of the best ways to photograph with available light:...

Simon Plant • 25 Aug 2014
Compositing

Focus Stacking for Extended Depth of Field

Tutorial • Intermediate

Focus stacking is taking more than one photo of the same subject with a different part of the object in focus and combining them to make one photo. In this...

Marie Gardiner • 20 Aug 2014
Light

6 Creative Ways to Shoot Portraits in a Tunnel

Tutorial • Beginner

Tunnels are great landscape features with a lot of photographic potential. In this tutorial, you'll learn different ways to take advantage of this setting...

Ben Lucas • 18 Aug 2014
Landscape & Nature

Todd Amacker: Go Exploring in Your Own Backyard

Tutorial • Beginner

Todd Amacker is a conservation photographer and member of the Meet Your Neighbours project. Birds, people, fish and small creatures are some of the interests...

Jose Antunes • 12 Aug 2014
Equipment

Macro Equipment: Getting Started With Close-Up Photography

Tutorial • Beginner

An introduction to popular macro photography methods and choosing lenses for close up photography.

Marie Gardiner • 31 Jul 2014
Compositing

Creating a Realistic Composite Photo with Displacement Mapping

Tutorial • Intermediate

Photographing people on location sometimes just isn't possible. In this example, I'll show you how to get your subject realistically composited into a...

Ben Lucas • 29 Jul 2014
Light

Quick Tip: How to Take Great Portrait Photos at Night

Tutorial • Intermediate

Through my career as a photographer, I've been to many strange places at even stranger hours of the night—or should I say morning? In this tutorial, I'm...

Zach Sutton • 27 May 2014
Landscape & Nature

How to Shoot Portraits in Public (And Avoid a Crowd)

Tutorial • Beginner

If you're out taking photos in public, there's often little you can do to avoid crowds of people. The scenery could be beautiful, the light perfect, but if...

Ben Lucas • 22 May 2014
Compositing

How to Create a Portrait Mask Illusion With Photoshop

Tutorial • Intermediate

Combine two photos in Photoshop to create a photo-realistic mask.

Nathan Colantonio • 14 Apr 2014
Street

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Features: The Upright Tool

Tutorial • Beginner

Adobe recently released the Lightroom 5 Beta for download. There are several new features that have the potential to vastly improve the Lightroom editing...

Martin Perhiniak • 13 May 2013
Portrait

Smoothing Harsh Highlights with Photoshop

Tutorial • Intermediate

Today, we'll be looking at a technique for blending in the harsh highlights that can be caused by flashes when shooting portraits. It can be best to control...

Simon Plant • 8 Apr 2013
Compositing

Focus Stacking Made Easy with Photoshop

Tutorial • Beginner

When shooting macro photos, our depth-of-field can be so shallow that we can't get enough of the subject in focus. Even with the smallest apertures, shooting...

Andrew Childress • 14 Mar 2013