Two colors change everything in your photography and that is way overdone in digital. Today I’ll show you how to fix them easily in any app. This will only take a few minutes. The two colors that digital gets wrong. This is because on digital nearly all colors are equal in value, causing them to be over-driver in post. But before it was not this way and today I show you the easiest fix ever. You can do this in any app. But you will see it applied in most of my presets and can try it in its perfect form in the FIlmist Free or Complete presets pack. The first time you do this it might seem ext ..read more

Right now this might not be exciting. But later this post will save your bacon. SD cards are temporary devices. This means at some point your SD card will start to fail. You will accidentally delete or have a corrupt SD card to recover. At some point! The problem is that when it happens you panic, and companies waiting to get your money. Here are 5 tips that will save your bacon and a few more in the point below. Almost every post you find about this will be spam. Save this one. I made this. In the video for my viewers because I have decades of experience. I mention ReclaimMe and Rstudio as ..read more

Today’s tips go beyond simple light and shadow. This is how to think like a photographer. There’s a new update to my Pictorialist 1.1 Actions and I promised a video. But, I decided to showcase the process of this week’s session with my model Mayumi, and go deeper. So regardless of what you edit with. Don’t miss today’s tips. You can Get Pictalost here while it’s on Launch Sale and also check out Filmist and Elegance for those RAW edits. You can also Log-In here for your updates. As light wanes, shadow deepens. And if you’ve ever been to one of my Shadow Hacker live workshops you know that ..read more

Adobe Cloud was a trap from day one, even if it is a great deal compared to the alternatives. But there are issues with having one big dog and this week they got worse. Today we talk about how that affects us as photographers. I’ve got you covered from my end… You decide. If you use my presets and decide to switch, all current packs include LR6 and Capture One files. Have Street’ist or Power Workflow for example. Just go access your downloads here and get the latest files. Preset packs like Filmist and Natural HDR also include LUTS and those can be used in many apps like Affinity, DaVinci Re ..read more

The glow is something that happens when you nail a photo. Your lights are set just right and everything is magical. It’s what you look for in every photo and I had in in this week’s session. You can learn to find the glow in every photo session. In post, I mostly used Filmist 2, Elegance 4 to balance glowing skies and Pictorialist actions to add dramatic finishes. But it comes from within your camera. Yes, the tools I’m editing with help bring out that softness and you can even create a glow-like look as we often do in pictorialist-style edits. I’ve been showing a lot of these lately. But ..read more

Photography Podcast Host: Gavin Seim. In today’s podcast we have to face more Ai reality and my counter to it is quickly becoming pictorialism and learning from it for a digital Ai era. Leave a comment below, or talk about this week’s episode here on the Shadow Hunter Facebook group. Also, don’t miss the next Shadow Hackers Online Workshop for Free. What Pictorialism is teaching me about feeling photos! See my pictorialist actions and the video. More detail is not better but shadow and emotion always win. That is not to say our photo should be blurry ar least for now reason. We looked at som ..read more

Yes, it’s a basic question. How to charge for photos? How many should I give, how many outfits, hours, etc. New photographers and sometimes veterans love to colocate their lives because they don’t understand customer service. So here’s how to charge for photos the right way! I edited all my broll here with Filmist LUTS, it’s not just for Lightroom and C1. Also make sure you start listeb to Pro Photography podcast for more topics like this. Most people don’t think they need a photographer. That’s what you need to understand in this crazy competitive world. The truth is that unless you are e ..read more

When you change how you see photos you stop taking snapshots and start creating art. That’s what you’ll learn in today’s class. You can get Pictorialist actions here. Pictorialism is a powerful way to understand more about photography and here’s how to create it. Watch more hands-on videos using this process on the Pictorialist page here. Photography should have feeling. If you’ve ever been to my Shadow Hackers class you know you realize the way we see changes everything. I’ve learned pictorialism is an extension of that because it connects shadow and light to atmosphere and that conveys e ..read more

Most viral photos you see now are Ai AI-generated FAKES. And the more you comment and say it’s fake, the more the algorithm rewards them. There’s no point in pretending. So how does Cinematic Technique help us win? Use cinematic technique naturally while editing and WOW! Get more cinematic faster with my Pictorialist action kit or tools like Alchemist. Cinematic photography techniques beat out Ai fakery… Studying pictorialism helped me see that all this fake Ai photography has no emotion. We win when we stop thinking sterile and boring. If we to discover cinematic techniques with true feel ..read more

Pictorialism is about emotion over perfection and famous pictorialists like Stegliz, Cobur, Hamilton and many more helped create the fine art world of photography we know today! We’re in the roaring 20s again. But this time Ai and soulless photos are everywhere. Photography pictorialism may be the cure. That’s why I dig in to create Pictorialist Actions. A PS editing add-on focused on making amazing pictorialist edits. There are lots more samples, info, and videos on the pictorialist page. You can get Pictorialist here as well as see more samples and video. A while back I started studying ..read more