Photography Concentrate

Making your own presets in Lightroom is super easy to do and can save you a TON of time in your RAW workflow. Bonus: you can save money with this DIY technique, and create totally original and unique recipes.

When you create your own presets, you can make your photos ...

Lightroom is powerful. Not only is it full of tools to make your photos look amazing, but it also helps speed up your workflow, and keep your photos nice and organized. It’s the complete package.

Here are 8 Lightroom features that are really really awesome. If you have Lightroom ...

What’s quite unique about people photography is that even if the composition is plain, and the lighting nothing to write home about, a simple portrait of a fascinating person becomes a fascinating image.  

Camera Settings:

Camera: Canon 5D
Lens: 50mm f/1.4
Aperture: f/1.6
Shutter Speed ...

Lightroom 3 has a ton of different keyboard shortcuts that will help you move through your editing workflow faster. If you’d like to take a peek at the shortcuts for each module click on the “Help” menu and then “Library Module Shortcuts…” (or if you’re in the Develop ...

We’re really going to jump into this Getting The Shot series, as we hope it gives some valuable (and enjoyable!) insight. Often you can learn as much from the discussion of one image as you can from studying broad theories. 

Today’s photo is from our trip to Peru ...

Have you ever looked at a photo and wondered “How’d they get that shot?” If yes then this new series of blog posts is for you! We’ll be sharing the details behind our images to give you insight into the process taken to get the shot.

Let’s ...

For a long time Adobe Photoshop has been known as the reigning champion of image editing programs. The term “photoshop” has even worked its way into the language of popular culture. People know that to “photoshop” something means to digitally alter an image. Just look at the glossy magazine covers ...

Lightroom will surprise you.

Many photographers see it as a tool for basic adjustments, like exposure, white balance, and contrast, but think that creative processing needs to be done in Photoshop. Once you really dig into Lightroom, however, you’ll see that you can do so much neat stuff, it ...

You’ve probably heard over and over that you should be shooting in RAW. But do you know why it’s so important? And what it really means for your images? Let’s sort it out!

First off, what is RAW? RAW is a file format that captures all image ...

Editing weddings and portraits provides a unique challenge for photographers. After a few hours to a day of shooting you’re left with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of images to work through. Timelines are tight, and you’re juggling multiple sessions at once.

You want to provide awesome quality to your ...