Photo Links #110

Software

• Lightroom

  • Create Dramatic Light in Your Images Using Radial Filters | Fstoppers
  • Create Incredible Sunset Photos With Editing in Lightroom | Fstoppers
  • Eliminate High ISO Noise Fast With Lightroom | Fstoppers
  • 3 Ways To Perfectly Straighten Verticals With Lightroom, Photoshop, and a Tilt-Shift Lens | Fstoppers

• Photoshop

  • 2 Easy Ways To Extend Backgrounds in Photos Using Photoshop | Fstoppers
  • Use Linear Light blend mode in Photoshop to enhance your colours the easy way – DIY Photography
  • How To Cut Out Figures in Photoshop | Fstoppers
  • How to Create a Vignette in Photoshop
  • 3 Ways To Perfectly Straighten Verticals With Lightroom, Photoshop, and a Tilt-Shift Lens | Fstoppers

• Other

  • How to Switch to DuckDuckGo, a Private Search Engine
  How to Use Bangs in DuckDuckGo (to Search Other Websites)
  • Free and Open Versus Subscription: Is Rawtherapee Ready To Challenge Lightroom’s Library? | Fstoppers
  • Set up a quick and easy online portfolio in under 30 minutes | Photofocus
  • Affinity Photo Launches Version 1.9, Bringing Host of New Features

Gear

• Are You Overlooking Superzoom Lenses for Landscape Photography? | Fstoppers
• 3 Ways To Perfectly Straighten Verticals With Lightroom, Photoshop, and a Tilt-Shift Lens | Fstoppers
• Quick guide to tripod head types and their uses | Photofocus

Creativity & Technique

• A Beginner's Guide To Street Photography and Portraits of Strangers | Fstoppers
• How color theory helps your photography | Photofocus
• This beginner's guide walks you through the basics of long exposure photography – DIY Photography
• Nail long exposure landscape photos with these easy tips | Photofocus
• Manual Focus Versus Autofocus Versus Back-Button Focus for Landscape Photography | Fstoppers
• The power of vignettes: Directing the light | Photofocus
• A Quick Look at Using Negative Space in Photos
• 5 Tips to Maximizing Any Smartphone Camera | Fstoppers
• Five tips for wildlife photography without a super-telephoto lens – DIY Photography
• When to photograph brackets for HDR | Photofocus
• 28 Composition Ideas to Help You Take Better Photographs

Miscellaneous

• Royal Photographic Society makes 165 years of its Journal free online: Digital Photography Review

Image Collections & Essays

• The Winners Of The 2021 Underwater Photographer Of The Year Contest Are Breathtaking – Digg
• These Are The Winners of the Portrait of Humanity 2021 Competition
• Photo of Melted North Pole Wins 2020 Science Photographer of the Year Prize
• Slideshow: Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award winners: Digital Photography Review
• These Are the Winners of the 2020 Travel Photographer of the Year