Image Breakdown: Slide Longboarding

Kyle Nienhouse Longboarding in Avon, CO

Capturing sports is all about timing, and the right subject matter.  Master these and shoot at the best times of day and you are well on your way to capture amazing images. For this shoot I wanted to capture cool and unique longboarding images that showcase excitement and speed without using motion blur.  With any shoot it's all about location and talent first.  Scouting ahead is highly recommended.  This includes both…

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Image Usage Rights Explained

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Although it's not the most exciting subject, image usage rights are an extremely important part of any professional's career.  At first they may seem like a major inconvenience that's only set up to make our live's tougher, but image usage rights actually help us to make more money off of every single image. Here's a few of the main terms and what they mean: Royalty-Free:  This is a term found…

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Editing Ski Photos with Lightroom

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It's that time of the year again…. Time to go through more photos than you had realized were captured, and narrow down to the best ones for submissions/editing.  Anytime a submission calls for JPEG's, I like to go through and do quick edits on every image.  This is a task that can be extremely daunting, but with lightroom has become a quick and easy process. After having spent so much…

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Photoshop Layers: How to avoid over-editing!

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One of the most common mistakes that photographers make is over-editing photos.  I've seen great images taken, and then edited into oblivion with the photographer thinking they are actually making it better.  So how do you avoid doing this if you don't even know you are doing it?  Find a happy medium and use layers to make this work. I realized the other day while I was editing that I had developed…

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