All About The Mastin Labs Custom Workspace For Capture One
We’ve made our Capture One users a custom Capture One workspace that you can install to keep all the tools you need for a 3-step Workflow in one handy location. Read more
Photography Business Website Review with Kirk Mastin
Your website is one way potential clients can get to know you. If you aren't putting your best face forward with an informative and easy-to-navigate website, you could be slashing your earning potential. Read more
How to Use Lightroom's Perspective Tools
Perspective control can make or break a line-heavy photo, and learning to use Lightroom’s Transform tools can make all the difference. Read more
How To Use Mastin Labs Presets In Adobe Camera RAW
If you’re wondering what the differences between Adobe Capture RAW and Lightroom are or you’re curious how to use Adobe Camera RAW, we’ve got answers. Read more
Take Better Portraits Anywhere With the 'Three Feet of Peace' Technique
Learn how to use this simple technique to make your portraits look like perfectly lit studio portraits, ANYWHERE. Even in the middle of a city. Read more
How To Whiten Teeth In Lightroom And Capture One
No matter what software you use to process your raw files, there’s a fast and easy way to whiten your subject’s teeth. Read more
How To Work With Shadows And Highlights
Tone profiles were matched to scans from a Frontier film scanner and represent real settings used to scan the films that the packs emulate. They can be incredibly useful in helping you fine-tune the shadows and highlights. Read more
How to Edit a Variety of Skin Tones
For a portrait photographer with a Mastin Labs-centric workflow, choosing the right preset or style (that’s Capture One lingo for preset) is vital to doing your subject’s skin justice. Read more
How To Shoot And Edit Dark And Moody Photos
“Dark and Moody” and “Light and Airy” are phrases that are frequently tossed around in photographer circles. They describe an overarching look and feel that encapsulates the light, tones, and processing of an image. Read more
Everything New In Capture One 20
Capture One 20 just dropped, and it’s full of improvements that photographers have been requesting. Some changes are significant, some are small, but all will make your Capture One experience (and results!) much better. Read more
The Most Common Enneagram Type Among Photographers
The Enneagram is a system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people conceptualize the world and manage their emotions. Check out the Mastin Labs Community Enneagrams. Read more
Is AI Coming For Photographers' Jobs?
While certainly impressive, many experts contend AI will never supplant a professional photographer’s human eye. What’s more, AI may actually help photographers work more efficiently—once they’ve learned how to incorporate it. Read more
How To Shoot Powerful Portraits
In this article, Kirk Mastin shares his top three tips for making powerful, simple portraits. He also shares his gear setup as well as behind the scenes of his portrait shoot during Way Up North in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more
Shooting Portraits Tethered Into Capture One at The Photo Cookout
134 portraits tethered to Capture One and edited with Mastin Labs Capture One styles at The Photo Cookout 2019 in New Orleans, LA. Read more
Capture One Quickstart Guide For Lightroom Users
Originally developed as a companion for Phase One's digital medium format cameras, Capture One has expanded past that to include new tools that all photographers can use, and in some cases, surpasses the old guard, Lightroom. Read more
How to Edit In a Light & Airy Style in Lightroom
During this live session, Kirk teaches the recipe for achieving a Light & Airy look! Read more
What is Zone Focusing and How Do I Use It?
Most commonly used by street photographers, this focusing technique could help you to nail the shot in a fast-paced environment. Read more
Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow: How to Bring your Image from Lightroom to Photoshop and Back
A how to guide on the best practices to bring your images from Adobe Lightroom, to Photoshop and back. Read more
Don't Go To Photo School
One professional photographer's take on photography school, why he didn't go, and why it was one of the best decisions of his career. Read more
Chase Jarvis and Brandon Stanton on Creativity as a Practice
Speaking to a live audience in Seattle, Chase Jarvis was joined by Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York to discuss Jarvis' latest book, Creative Calling, centered around the idea that creativity is a cultivated practice. Read more
When to Make the Jump - Going Full Time as a Photographer
Some real talk with photographer, Chris Daniels. He pulls from his own experiences to give you 10 tips for making your jump into full-time photography the best it can be. Read more