Beautiful wedding photo albums tell your love story in technicolour or black and white photographic glory. The photo albums are typically filled with a selection of stunning professional-quality photographs that capture the mood, ambiance, fun,…
Photoshop Actions are great time-savers – no doubt about that. They allow you to record all the steps and adjustments you make to an image and then recall those steps later on and apply your…
Whenever we press the shutter button to take a photo, we’re making a commitment. Certainly, we can press this button again and again to take as many pictures as we’d like, but we find it…
The city can be a truly captivating place to photograph, especially at night. The bright lights and throngs of life make for a rich canvas of color, contrast and motion to make your pictures spectacular.…
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, photographers around the world have lost the opportunity to shoot outdoors or in their other favorite locations due to a slew of stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders. Luckily, there…
Maybe you’ve heard the phrase “in-camera” when it comes to planning and taking shots, but what does it mean to get it right in-camera? This indicates that the more “right” a photo is in-camera, the…
Long exposure photography is a wildly popular genre and with good reason! Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to head out and capture these types of images on their own without a bit of guidance. Dealing…
While we’re big fans of Lightroom Classic here at Contrastly, there’s no denying that Adobe is making a lot of progress with their cloud-based Lightroom CC app. With new features and improvements being added on…
Some photographers worry about the lack of certainty with natural light – what if it’s a grey day? What if the family’s home is dark? Here are some simple tips that will help you make…
No matter the genre, many photography instructors would argue that there are several fundamentals important to all types of photography. Some of these fundamentals might include the use of light, color, composition, movement in the…
There I was merrily talking shop on a summer afternoon when a photographer friend said ‘hey buddy, have you ever had a play with one of these?.’ He whips out a Sony, and that’s when…
Retouching is one of many post-production techniques that can be considered an art in and of itself within the photography world. Just as important as understanding how to capture a good portrait is knowing what…