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Color is a huge topic in photography. You'll be hard-pressed to wander through online photography forums without tripping over a group of shutterbugs arguing over which manufacturer's "colors are best." Like warring cavemen bashing each other with clubs, even the "winner" of a colorful debate, if there is such a thing,...
For the many photographers who edit their raw images in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw, how to approach color editing can be confusing. You can use many tools, including Hue/Saturation/Lightness sliders (Color Mixer), global saturation and vibrance sliders, Color Grading tools, and Calibration tools. As outlined by...
Landscape photographer Nigel Danson gets asked about color a lot. He says it's the most common topic that viewers bring up. Although there are many tools you can use in Adobe Lightroom to adjust the color of your photos, it doesn't need to be complicated. Even the color grading tools, which can seem a bit daunting at...
Achieving accurate skin tones in photographs can be tricky. Pantone has announced SkinTone Validated, the world's first validation program for skin tones for technology. The new technology program allows display, TV, mobile device and printer manufacturers to have their devices tested to ensure that they authentically...
Last week, Ted Forbes released a video discussing the intent of the photographer. He focused on multiple famous photographers who all utilized the same color film stock, Kodachrome, to create images with vastly different styles. Not only were the images different in terms of composition, use of light and much more, they...
Rachel Gulotta and Daniel Inskeep of Mango Street have published a new video about color theory. Unless you're exclusively a monochrome photographer, and arguably even then color still matters considerably albeit in different ways, color is critical to making good images.
In the video below, Rachel and Daniel...
In today's Shutter Release roundup, we will look at an in-depth guide to color processing in Lightroom or Photoshop, a neat video about a photographer who isn't letting a lack of hands and legs stop him from pursuing his dreams and an article about using a flag to control shadow and light in portraiture.
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One of the most challenging aspects of photography is learning to create your own style. Ideally, someone can see your work and know immediately that it is yours. Obviously creating a distinct look can take a long time and a lot of trial and error, but a great place to start is with how you perform color edits. Color is...
Unless you exclusively photograph black and white images – which don’t get me wrong, I love black and white photography and find it to offer its own unique set of challenges – color plays an important role in your photography. We spend a lot of time searching out beautiful color and finding ways to process our images to...
Datacolor expert and award-winning photographer David Cardinal is a big proponent of color calibration because he needs to ensure that the colors he sees on his display will be the same colors he sees on his prints.
According to Cardinal, having a properly-calibrated monitor is critically important. "I don't see how you can properly work on your...
If you’ve dreamt about owning a Leica camera system, but lack the funds to do so, today might be your lucky day. X-Rite Photo, in collaboration with Foto Promos, is hosting a camera giveaway, wherein the prize is a Leica MP Digital Rangefinder Camera Safari Set.
Going on now through October 22nd, the contest offers up a Leica camera set valued at...
MeFOTO, a compact tripod manufacturer, has launched the world’s first customized color-based tripod design, the BYOT (Build Your Own Tripod) service for its popular RoadTrip model.
MeFOTO’s new BYOT service allows photographers to choose between 12 different colors for the head, brackets and center column of its RoadTrip Travel Tripod. This...
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Programmer and photographer Jack Mahoney and his friend Eric Hartsuyker, decided to make use of data from EyeEm (a photo sharing site popular in Europe) to see how the colors in photographs change across Europe. With the help of some clever programming and queries to the photo-sharing platform, the two dug up HSL (hue,...
As photographers, we think about light every time we pick up a camera. But the last time that most of us thought about the science behind light may well have been in a high-school physics lecture.
For those of us who could use a refresher, the latest episode of the Fox mini-series Cosmos, titled “...
We've all done it. Spending hours in Photoshop or Lightroom, making tiny tweaks to the coloring and lighting of our photos. But with all of our playing with sliders, and twiddling the hue and saturation, how well do you actually know color? The color experts at X-Rite have something to test just that, with their Online...