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.

All Types of Photography tutorials:

  1. 3 Natural Portraits With Window 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:...

  2. Focus Stacking for Extended Depth of Field

    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...

  3. 6 Creative Ways to Shoot Portraits in a Tunnel

    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...

  4. Todd Amacker: Go Exploring in Your Own Backyard

    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...

  5. Macro Equipment: Getting Started With Close-Up Photography

    Macro Equipment: Getting Started With Close-Up Photography

    Tutorial Beginner

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

  6. Creating a Realistic Composite Photo with Displacement Mapping

    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...

  7. Quick Tip: How to Take Great Portrait Photos at Night

    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...

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

    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...

  9. How to Create a Portrait Mask Illusion With Photoshop

    How to Create a Portrait Mask Illusion With Photoshop

    Tutorial Intermediate

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

  10. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Features: The Upright Tool

    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...

  11. Smoothing Harsh Highlights with Photoshop

    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...

  12. Focus Stacking Made Easy with Photoshop

    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...