Want to have some fun with your photos? Swap the faces of your friends or family and create hilarious photo montages which can serve as droll greeting cards, happy birthday wall posters, or just silly posts on social media. If you have children, they will enjoy face-swapping as well: how about putting your son’s head onto a superhero’s body? Or swapping all the faces on a family Christmas photo? The only limit is your imagination. There are lots of handy programs that help you add a face to a photo. We have prepared brief guides on how to do it using three popular tools: PhotoWorks, GIMP, and Photoshop. Of course,…

During the pandemic, it is quite difficult to get professional portraits: photo studios are closed, everyone is staying at home and keeping the distance. But if you take matters into your own hands, the result may look disappointing. When inexperienced photographers try to capture the genuine emotion or the inner beauty of their loved ones, they often forget to think of the right lighting, angle, background, and lots of other important things. We have prepared a list of the most common mistakes that you should avoid in portrait photos.  Taking Portraits in Harsh Light Don’t put your model into bright midday sunlight: it creates an unflattering look with emphasized acne…

So the Awards season 2021 kicked off last night with the Golden Globes. But, as with everything in the age of Corona, it was a very different from what we have come to expect, and not least when it came to the Red Carpet. In short, it was a Zoom session, and, like most Zoom sessions, this included muted mikes, funny facial expressions full of falseness and boredom, and other such mishaps. And then there was the red carpet. Which didn’t really exist as such, as most of the celebs were at home. But that didn’t mean there wasn’t fashion and looks to savour. The stars had still pulled out…

Chadwick Boseman posthumously won the best actor award at last night’s virtual Golden Globe awards for his haunting, brilliant role in his last film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. I watched the film last week and have to say it is one that stays with you long after the closing credits for its haunting ending and brilliant performances. It was not what I expected if I’m honest, I thought it would be a breezy, jazz age piece with lots of music and laughter, instead it was a claustrophobic, haunting story of the discrimination that existed in 1920’s America, even when it was linked to a big star like Ma Rainey was,…