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Webb Space Telescope reveals moment of stellar birth, dramatic close-up of 50 baby stars
The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet.
Photoshop Quick Tip: How to Give an Image Dramatic Lighting
Maybe you've found the perfect image with the perfect subject, but it still needs a bit more richness. This quick method will help you take things up a notch by adding some dramatic lighting. For example, I've downloaded this Bigstock photo of a little girl with wings. Adorable, isn't she? Let's giv
How to Create Dramatic Portraits in Your Garage
The setup If I want to take dramatic portraits on a black backdrop (without even needing a single light), a garage is your new go to spot. This is the simplest (and most makeshift looking) setup that I use. As you can see in the image above, all I am using is a piece of …
Travel Photography: How to Take Photos of Stars
Travel photography tips: how to take photos of stars.
Helping Artists Find Studio Space
Some of the organizations and programs that connect artists with places where they can work.
Astrophotography: Telescope Photography Tips
Most people love to gaze up at the night sky and enjoy the beautiful light show that nature provides; the stars, galaxies and constellations seem so close. It’s fun to imagine what earth was like millions of years ago when light from distant stars left on its journey through the universe, never stopping or slowing [...]
Close-Up Paintings of Eyes Examine What People Are Feeling in That Moment
They say the eyes are the window to the soul. They can certainly be very revealing.
9 Tips for Dramatic Ice Photos
9 photographic tips to compose great pictures of ice.
Guide to Taking Dramatic Backlit Portraits
When the light source is behind your subject, it can become challenging to take a photograph. However, with the right technique, you can make the most of the challenge and create an amazing portrait. Daniel Norton with Adorama demonstrates how you can take dramatic backlit portraits using a single light setup: Before taking any shots [...]
Fashion Photography Dramatic Lighting Tutorial
Fashion photography does not always have to be only about the dress or the model. You can create interesting fashion photographs if you play around with lighting and use it to complement the dress itself. Photographer Daniel Norton from Adorama demonstrates how you can use gels with lights to create graphical interest in fashion photography: [...]
How Self-Driving Telescopes Could Transform Astronomy
Astronomers and physicists continue to pursue the answers to the universe’s deepest questions, but on many matters, including dark matter and dark energy, they are stymied. What if an autonomously operating telescope, free from human biases and complications, could find the solutions we’ve been missing?
5 Tips to Dramatically Improve Golden Hour Landscapes
Photographer Subham Shome shares beginner tips and tricks for improving landscape photographs captured at golden hour.
Learn these Two Techniques for Dramatic Light-Painted Photos
Experiment with these two techniques for dramatic light-painted photographs for some unique, interesting and creative effects in your photos!
4 Beginner Tips for Creating Dramatic Portraits with One Flash
Even if you are a beginner using speedlights or studio strobes, you can follow these tips to create a dramatic portrait using only one flash.
Five Beginner Lightroom Editing Tips to Dramatically Improve Your Photos
Sometimes it's the simple things that make the biggest difference.
Why not take a moment to ponder the Fermi Paradox?
Hey, why not pause to think about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life? Galactic colonization? The Drake equation? The intelligent beings that might be listening to the Golden Record at this …
How To Make the Most of Each Day Live in the Moment
We rush from place to place but never take the time to look up. These steps will help you enjoy each day rather than letting it slip away.
Tutorial: Color Spaces in Photography
Have you ever come across a situation where the colors in your images look different once you upload them to the web? This issue arises because of something called color space. A basic understanding of how color space works can save you serious time and headaches. Aaron Nace discusses the differences between various color spaces [...]
Sketching the Stars: How Art Can Advance Astronomy
From Galileo's drawings of the moon to the Hubble Space Telescope's celestial images, science has a long history of animating the cosmos through art.
How Are Laser Guide Stars Used in Astronomy?
When there are no nearby stars to use as a reference, lasers are used to generate small bright spots in the sky. These laser guide stars can be used by astronomers with adaptive optics imaging to obtain pictures superior to those taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Pity the Punk Historian: How to Capture a Moment Designed to Self-Destruct?
A spate of new films propose a reckoning between punk artistry and documentary portraiture
