We all want to show off our photos as best as possible on the Web and one of the best ways of doing this is with a Lightroom photo gallery. I showed you how to build one not long ago but I want to give you more resources than just the standard templates. Don’t get me wrong, I love the default templates and I use them all the time but you know what they say. Variety is the spice of life. 

After searching far and wide across the www for you, here are some of my favorites. Some are free and some are Continue Reading »

Before I announce the winner of the first bi-annual YPS Scholarship Award, I would like to thank all who took the time to spread the word about the contest and most importantly, all who took the time to enter.

To all who entered, thank you for submitting your tips.

Ok, now to announce the winner. Drum roll please… drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. And the winner is… Continue Reading »

In this photography tutorial, I’ll give you a few tricks to find your lens’ sweet spot. First off, what does the “sweet spot” mean? Simply put, the sweet spot is the aperture at which your lens is at its sharpest.

You’ve probably noticed that some of your images weren’t as sharp all the time and you may have shrugged it off as camera shake. Maybe it was, but it could’ve also been softness caused by your aperture setting on your Continue Reading »

Yes, I know. You’ve been asking for more Lightroom tutorials and I’ve been giving you lots of Photoshop tutorials. I hope I’ve redeemed myself today with the cool technique in Lightroom called split toning.

Simply put, split toning is taking a black and white image and adding a color tint to the highlights and a separate color tint to the shadows. You can get some pretty cool effects using Continue Reading »

Already April! Man! How time flies when you’re a busy bee. There’s still a bit of snow on the ground but it should be all gone by next week! Hooray! Just in time for my big move to the big city. Many of the birds are back and my Nikkor 80-400mm VR is snapped on my D300 right by the window.

I though I was busy in March. Here’s what my Continue Reading »

To celebrate Yanik’s Photo School’s 1 year anniversary, I’m launching the YPS Scholarship Award! I had given you hints about the award a while back and now it’s here! Any self respecting school has a scholarship program, right? YPS is no exception.

Before I go any further, I would like to thank Scott Kelby and Kelby Training for sponsoring the YPS Scholarship Award. I was willing to pay for the award myself but Scott was generous Continue Reading »

I just can’t believe it.  Yanik’s Photo School is already 1 year old! How time flies when you’re having fun.

I would like to start by saying thank you to all who have spent time on YPS learning from my tutorial ramblings. You are  my motivation. You keep the flame of my teaching passion lit. You push me to better myself in my art and my profession. This will sound cliché but without you, YPS would have died a long time ago. A special thank you goes out to Darren Rowse over at Digital-Photography-School.com and Udi Tirosh at DIYPhotography.net for generously offering Continue Reading »

I’ve done quite a few lighting tutorials here on Yanik’s Photo School, especially using off camera small flashes like the SB-900 or the 580EX II. I love these little buggers and the more I use them, the more dust accumulates on my big studio strobes. And today’s lesson will be about an in-camera feature that most DSLRs have called Rear Curtain Flash.

I discovered this camera feature a long time ago with my Nikon D70 when I wanted  to shoot a long exposure of a moving Continue Reading »