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Getting the Most Out of Your GoPro: Here Are a Few Tips and Tricks

Over the past few product generations of the GoPro line, we’ve seen a ton of advancement in the feature set offered by everyone’s favorite action camera. Not only can it go anywhere and do pretty much anything you ask it to, newer models can even record in 10-bit log formats, in resolutions higher than 4K, in an 8:7 aspect ratio for ultimate flexibility in post.

11 Pro Tips to Instantly Elevate Your Golden Hour Photography

The long days of summer offer a unique advantage for photographers: an abundance of golden hour light. This seasonal extension of the coveted 'magic hours' provides more time for photographers to work with the soft, beautiful light that can transform a scene. Adobe Lightroom and Sony Ambassador Colby Brown shares with PetaPixel his process of mastering this unique light, providing practical techniques for both in-camera capture and post-processing.

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Color Grading in Portrait Photography: From Finding Inspiration to Final Results

Color grading is a crucial creative adjustment that enhances storytelling and evokes emotions. In portrait photography, it plays a significant role in establishing the mood of the subject. This article explores how to craft color grading in portrait photography, from sourcing inspiration to achieving the final result.

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How to Capture Fantastic Fireworks Photos With Your Smartphone

While many photographers will venture out to their local Fourth of July fireworks shows armed with a dedicated camera kit, what if you only have your smartphone on hand? It's still possible to get great shots as Google Senior Product Manager Alex King and Pixel Camera Senior Product Manager Michael Specht explain.

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5 Advanced Lightroom Techniques To Change How You See and Edit Photos

If you’ve ever watched one of my tutorials, you know I’m obsessed with finding ways to edit faster in Lightroom. I want to avoid having to jump to Photoshop just for minor tweaks or small retouching tasks, so I keep looking for ways to apply the same techniques inside Lightroom.

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8 Pro Tips to Elevate Your Nature Photography Instantly

Adobe Lightroom Ambassador Melissa Findley is a photographer with a deep interest in travel, adventure, landscape, and lifestyle photography. Her passion for visual storytelling has taken her across the globe, leading to significant projects with major brands and non-profit organizations. The acclaimed Australian-born photographer shares her invaluable insights with PetaPixel, offering tips to elevate the nature photography skills of enthusiasts at every level.

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You’re Probably Not Using Lightroom Presets to Their Full Potential

As a photographer, if there is one thing I despise when editing my photos, it is jumping between multiple editing apps with one single photo and ending up with duplicate files where my settings are burned in and can’t be tweaked down the line.

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Grow Your Love of Flower Photography

Photographing flowers is easy and very rewarding. You can create beautiful images with any equipment, most any day or evening, indoors and out. Spring is nirvana for flower photography but I find good opportunities all year.

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Creating a Personal Photography Project: From Concept to Execution

Taking on a personal project is the next level. It makes you treat photography as an art form. Like in any art, you first start with one-offs, singles, or short stories, and only then approach writing a novel. And this is how I invite you to treat your personal project, as writing a novel, as opposed to snapping unconnected stories here and there.

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6 Ways to Expand Your Creativity According to a Pro Photographer

Over the last decade, photographer Erin Sullivan has built an impressive travel photography portfolio by embracing creativity in both traditional and unconventional ways. Erin Outdoors, as she is more widely known, has inspired countless photographers and travelers alike to explore their artistic potential by learning how to expand their creativity.

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Tips for Photographing a Wedding Ceremony

The wedding ceremony is arguably the most important part of a wedding day. Seeing as it’s the part of the day you don’t get a do-over on, for a photographer it can be stressful to nail great shots of the key moments. That’s why today I’m sharing some wedding photography ceremony tips from over a decade of experience shooting ceremonies.

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What to Do When it Gets Dark: Night Wedding Photography Tips

There you are, going along shooting all the pretty wedding day details and events. Sunset is epic and romantic and you capture some incredible portraits between your two lovebirds and then you start to panic, wondering what to do when it gets dark. I’m here to help with these night wedding photography tips.

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What to Know if You’re Going to Photograph Destination Weddings

As a husband and wife team specializing in capturing adventurous couples in the beautiful places they choose to get married, we love to travel. Destination weddings are a blast and definitely something we do. And destination weddings have their challenges that are worth addressing if you’re going to photograph destination weddings.

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How Setting Expectations Can Make Wedding Photography Go Smoother

Whether or not a wedding day goes smoothly can come down to a lot of different factors. Is it raining, is everyone stressed, or did someone drop the cake? The key is to control the controllable by setting expectations with your couples so that the wedding photography goes as smoothly as possible.

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Don’t Get Cold Feet: Packing and Preparing for Shooting a Wedding

Today we’re going to talk about wedding planning. Not wedding planning from the perspective of the happy couple, but wedding planning from the perspective of the wedding photographer. Packing and preparing for shooting a wedding can set you off on the right foot, failing to do so can leave you scrambling.

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How to Capture Better Macro Wildlife Photographs

Macro Photographer Ben Salb is an OM SYSTEM Ambassador whose passion for photography lies in the small details of the natural world. The Maryland-based photographer specializes in high magnification insect and spider photography, often finding his subjects close to home in the lush woods of the United States’ eastern coast.

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How to Get Started in Wedding Photography: A Checklist

When thinking about how to get started with wedding photography, you’ll want to make a checklist of things you need to do, have, or create. Today I’ll give you a starting point as well as prompts to help you customize your list. The first thing you might notice is that it’s not all about photography.