Welcome to week 6 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! By now, we’re sure that your skills and creativity are improving by leaps and bounds! This week’s Challenge is: One Color The "one color" theme in photography involves using a dominant hue to create a visually cohesive and impactful composition. This approach can include [...]
Photography News January 29, 2024 Quote: "Photography is a universal language that transcends the barriers of culture and time.” – Fan Ho Techniques and Tutorials: Elevate Your Night Street Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59PQT0rLtSc How to do Fine Art Photography | Techniques and Tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHWomuiCfw My Secret Landscape Photography Glow Method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3UCxOG7xw0 How to Develop Concepts in Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oF1-OJqa0o [...]
Welcome to week 5 of the 2024 SlickPic 52-week Photo Challenge! We’re glad you’re here and committed to improving your skills. This week’s Challenge is: Still Life Still-life photography is all about creating compositions with inanimate objects. You’re in control of lighting, composition, and the subject matter. Try playing with the arrangement of objects, the play [...]
Photography News January 24, 2024 Quote: "The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth" – Edward Steichen Techniques and Tutorials: The Big Secret to Photographing People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC9EwUgoHoA&t=1s Shooting a Fashion Editorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGUEprWE9Us 3 Simple Lighting Setups for Editorial Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTUV1LIUrLc Quick and Easy Skin Retouch with [...]
Can you believe it’s already the 4th week of our 52-week photo challenge? Congratulations on making a commitment to improve your skills and inspire others with your photos! This week we’ll be diving into the genre of Leading Lines, which hopefully will broaden your awareness of the world around you. Leading Lines are lines that have [...]
Welcome to week 3 of our 52-week photo challenge, this week about the fascinating genre of Silhouettes. Fun to capture, and sometimes haunting, silhouettes are typically a dark shape and outline of a person or object against a lighter background. Here’s a nice article from Digital Photography School on How to Photograph Silhouettes to give you [...]
Photography News January 15, 2024 Quote: "A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it" – Fan Ho Techniques and Tutorials: Remove And Retouch Flyaways Hair in Photoshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j79JJppNDaI How to create a sharp Orton glow in Photoshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUWlzw39YAo How to Edit Muted Tones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscQr4VoEOU [...]
Welcome to week 2 of our 52-week photo challenge! Thanks for being on the journey, and being committed to improving your skills. This week, we’re going to explore the amazing world of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). It’s a cool and clever technique where - in many cases - you intentionally move your camera during capture so [...]
Photography News January 8, 2024 Quote: "A camera is just a tool; the photographer's mind and heart are what create the image.” – Fan Ho Techniques and Tutorials: Who I Would Learn Black And White Photography From – If I had to Start Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJj21MB2lMs The Simplest Way To Better Photos.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PZ02I9p8Sk Make Your Subject Stand Out – Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qk2al8SZro [...]
Check out this blog post on all the benefits of participating in consistent photo exercises like this challenge. Why should you commit to a 52-week photo challenge? Great question, and we’re glad you asked! Committing to and participating in a weekly challenge of any kind can be a little daunting at first, but soon becomes a [...]
Photography News January 2, 2024 Quote: “Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want [...]
Since 2023 has drawn to a close, it’s a great time to look back at the year that was! Welcome to the first Challenge of the year! With this one, we’d like you to search your back catalog of images taken in 2023 and select your favorite/best 3 to share in the Challenge. They can be [...]
Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2024! Here at SlickPic, we’ve been thinking a lot about how SlickPic Academy (“SPA”) can be of the most value to photographers around the world. We started the Academy about 4 months ago and have been introducing you to world-class photographers and educators willing to share their hard-won experiences [...]
Photography News December 26, 2023 Quote: “If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?” – Richard Avedon Techniques and Tutorials: Things to Consider When Photographing Snow Landscapes How my Midjourney created image got on the main cover along world star photographer Steve McCurry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GlUKrR9BVI&t=3s [...]
In our last article, we talked about how to create albums and upload your images with the ultimate aim of securely sharing them with friends and family. However, with literally everyone having a phone in their pocket, why not harness that? By encouraging everyone to take cool photos (from their point of view) you unlock the [...]
Photography News December 18, 2023 Quote: "Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph" – Richard Avedon Techniques and Tutorials: Ideas Made of Light – Daybreak by Maxfield Parrish Photographing the Largest Rocket Ever Flown Moody Long Exposure Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zMcjBEvR8 Boring Location? [...]
Photography News December 11, 2023 Quote: "The most important thing in photography is to find your own style and to be true to your own vision.” – Fan Ho Techniques and Tutorials: Edit Or Not To Edit That's The Question Story Behind The "Approaching Shadow" by Fan Ho Pathways to Creativity – Art Wolfe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjtcSo-_XHU Why no one cares about [...]
Once again, it’s that time of year when we come together with family and friends to celebrate the holidays, have delicious food, and catch up on life. And - if you’re like us - it’s a great time to capture memories by taking photos. Lots of them! But what good is a photo unless you share [...]
Photography News December 5, 2023 Quote: ”Light is the soul of a photograph.” – Fan Ho Techniques and Tutorials: The Importance of Finding Balance in Landscape Photos Creating Powerful Art – Brooke Shaden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWS-lMnj8B4 9 Priceless Composition Tips For Amazing Photos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMOGSxgY5yc Unlock the World of Fine Art in Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJvPWTGE5U 10 Brushes All Photographers Should Have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkI0xMO6jyE [...]
Photography News November 28, 2023 Quote: When you move the horizon up you bring in a sense of scale” – Alex Kilbee Techniques and Tutorials: The Hidden Power of the Horizon Line In Photos And Film – Alex Kilbee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLM1yDBJCI 3 Superfast Ways to Auto-Repair Skin + Free Actions! – Photoshop Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJad3iATQi8 The Ultimate [...]