Alice Houstons 
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Zoner Studio’s 2026 Summer Update adds native Focus Stacking, Exposure Bracketing, Panorama, Long Exposure, and Remove Moving Objects tools — all included in the $59/year subscription.
Online client photo galleries are a critical tool in a photographer’s workflow, allowing creatives to skip the hassle of loading all of the photos onto multiple DVDs or USB sticks and delivering said photos to a client. The right client photo galleries create a seamless and beautiful client experience, giving them a great first impression …
Smart wedding photographers (and commercial photographers) know that a little thought goes a long way. Client gifts are fantastic ways to keep your clients talking about you to their friends and family.
There has been a rise in websites that offer high quality, professional stock imagery that are for the most part completely free or fall under creative commons public domain licensing.
If you want to help your clients give you natural smiles for their photos, don’t have them say, ‘cheese.’ Try these tips instead.
Graduation sessions sit in an interesting spot in portrait photography. The subject is almost always happy to be there, the wardrobe is built in, and the emotional stakes are genuine. That combination makes grad shoots more forgiving than most portrait work — and more creatively open than photographers sometimes realize. The challenge isn’t getting a …
When we first try our hand at flash photography, we tend to go too heavy on the flash. We get excited when we see that we’re no longer losing our subjects in the shadows. For a while, that’s enough. Later, we realize we can take even better flash photography portraits with a few quick adjustments, …
Posing is the most challenging aspect of the craft for many photographers. Eliciting authentic expressions, capturing the model’s best looks, minding the small nuances, and getting enough variety are just some of the challenges. This complexity is heightened when we consider the nuanced contrasts in posing men and women, a ballet of gender-specific subtleties and …
Photography is a fine balance of technology, science, and art. It’s a philosophy. It’s perspective. Some even say it’s truth. Each image can take on a life of it’s own; and with such a unique, expressive, and subjective art form, there are bound to be a plethora of profound statements made about the subject. Below, …
Choosing the right orientation for a photo album may seem like a small detail, but it can significantly impact the final presentation and overall impact of your images. The chosen photo album dimensions can also affect design choices, image selection, and even storage convenience. Whether you’re a professional photographer creating albums for clients or organizing …
We’ve put together a short list of the best star tracker apps, in no particular order, for both Android and iPhone users.
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