It’s raining right now… actually it’s pouring.  Which made me think that it would be a great tutorial idea to give you my tricks for shooting in the rain.

It’s not because it’s raining that you can’t go out and shoot.  Some great photography was done in the rain. Not a lot of people do it  because they think it’s “bad” weather. Water creates wonderful photography opportunities just like getting up at 4am to shoot the sunrise. It,s a unique experience that every passionate of photography must try. You won’t see rainy days the same way ever again.

But before you go out with your precious camera Continue Reading »

Well, as you already know, I had a blast in NYC! It was 5 days well spent in great company. My good friend and fellow photographer Martin Perreault and I crashed at our buddy’s place Joey Lawrence.

So what do 3 pro photographers do in New York City? Shoot the hell out of it!

On our first walk, we went to the Brooklyn Bridge and did a quick lighting setup using SB-800s. Check out the lighting tutorial if you missed it! We took turns shooting each other and the results were fantastic. Lots of Continue Reading »

As most of you know, my friend Martin and I went to visit our good buddy and fellow pro photographer Joey Lawrence in New York city not long ago. He needed our help choosing rooftop furniture for his new pad so we were happy to fly down and give him a hand. Hehehehe. Ok, maybe not, even though we did go to Ikea and helped out. It also goes without saying that we took out our cameras a few times in NYC.

But the most fun I had was doing this improvised shoot on the Brooklyn Bridge. We basically took turns shooting each other once everything was set up. Before I get into the lighting details, here’s a list of the equipment we used: Continue Reading »

Summer’s here and travel plans are being made all over the world (myself included). Chances are, if you’re reading Yanik’s Photo School, you’ll have fun packing your photo gear for your trip.

This post isn’t about what to bring but more on how to bring it. It coincides with a recent mishap my good friend and fellow photographer Martin Perreault had with one of his lenses while traveling to Jamaica for a shoot. Take a look at my interview with Martin to see what not Continue Reading »

I guess some of you still don’t have Lightroom 2 because you asked me if it was possible to do split toning in Photoshop. The answer is YES. If you have CS4, you can actually do split toning just like in Lightroom using ACR. But if you’re like me and still using an older version of Photoshop there’s still a way to do it.

In this Photoshop video tutorial, I’ll show you how to do split toning just like in my Lightroom split toning tutorial. There are a few more steps to get there compared to Lightroom but we still get there. To be honest, split toning in Continue Reading »

We’ re back in Photoshop! This time I’m going to show you how to use the Patch tool.

If you’re not familiar with the patch tool, don’t worry. It’s not commonly used and even those who know it exists, haven’t really played around with it.

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Continue Reading »

In this new Lightroom 2 video tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a subtle splash of color to a black and with image.  This technique is very similar to  my Lightroom split toning tutorial where you convert an image to B&W then add color to it. The main difference is that split toning affects the whole image and you can only use 2 colors (one for shadows and one for highlights) while using the gradient filter and the adjustment brush gives you more Continue Reading »

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 »

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 »