Free Tutorials

Its a digital world!  With some basic photo editing tips and skills you can transform any ordinary photograph into a vintage work of art using my favorite photo editing program – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.   Watch the photo editing tutorial below to see how quickly you can perform this edit with some basic photo editing …

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Editing

Photo Editing Tips: The Back in Time Vintage Film Edit

As if everyone wasn’t already a “photographer” with pretty decent cameras in our smartphones we now have some pretty fun apps for our phones that can transform a pretty standard snapshot into something with some “WOW” factor to it.  Let me introduce Instagram – an app that by now I am pretty sure most are …

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Business

Instagram – The Professional Photographers Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?

Need some helping on how to prevent blurry photos?  We’ve got the photography tips for you! Did you just buying an expensive new camera, start taking photos in the house of your dog or your kid, expecting to see a work of art but instead see a bunch of blur…ahhhhhhh!!!  Or maybe you’ve been shooting …

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Photography

Photography Tips – How to Prevent Blurry Photos

In today’s digital age some basic photo editing techniques are an absolute must.  However, photo editing doesn’t always have to be difficult. One task that can be daunting if never done before is removing something from your photo while in the “darkroom”.  The idea of “photoshopping” is always a scary one, after-all not only is …

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Editing

Photo Editing – Remove Distracting Objects or Blemishes in 60 seconds!

What wedding photography equipment do you need for the big day? Ever wondered what our must-have wedding photography equipment was?  Specifically what lenses a wedding photographer should own if they are a prime lens shooter and not big on zoom lenses? If so, this post is for you. This tutorial and video are all about …

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Genres

Our Must-Have Wedding Photography Equipment (Updated 2019)

Everyone has one, but does everyone know how to take photos with their point and shoot or Iphone that will truly amaze and wow people? These days they are literally everywhere – cameras that is.  We got big ones, small ones, expensive ones, cheap ones, and even some pretty darn good ones in our phones!  …

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Photography

How to Take Photos with your Point & Shoot or Iphone that will Amaze!

On the subject of photography basics – it is crucial to learn and understand what the 4 basic camera modes do and not only how, but when to utilize them.  Many times when you first get your new expensive camera you want to just start shooting and expecting to find magical and majestic images but …

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Photography

Photography Basics – Understanding the 4 basic Camera Exposure Modes

I had never had a problem with Nikon Transfer until two nights ago when I got my brand new D800 in the mail, I was so excited.  After taking a handful of sample photos I wanted to upload onto my computer and into Lightroom so I plugged in the USB cable just as I’ve done …

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Gear

Is Nikon Transfer Not Recognizing Your Camera’s Files?

Ah yes the million dollar question – how to increase and accelerate web traffic to your blog or website?  I am here to simply share with you some web traffic tips/tricks and maybe new ideas that have worked for us and can certainly work for you too. Back in 2009 when we first launched Cole …

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Business

Increase Web Traffic to Your Photo Blog with These Quick Tips!

Hey everyone – without a doubt, Adobe Lightroom is one very powerful tool that we use at Cole Joseph Photography on a daily basis.  Lightroom does a magnificent job at keeping track of your photos and using as a photo storage manager but it is also a very impressive photo editing program.  For our workflow …

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Editing

Presets in Adobe Lightroom to Automate Workflow & “Pop” to Images!

Hey there!  Welcome to my brand new blog.  Does it look awesome yet?  No.  Am I working on fixing that?  Yes.  This is what happens when I wake up at 4:30 am wide awake – just thinking about this website…thinking about how I should create it, how I should design it, what content I should …

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Photography

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