10 SECRETS To Make Your Photography Look 3D (& 'POP!')

Uncover the top 10 techniques for creating stunning 3D depth in your photos! Discover how artists throughout history have transformed flat images into lifelike masterpieces & learn how to apply these secrets to your Photography. Stay till the end for 5 bonus editing tips to enhance your 3D effects even further!

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Overlapping Spatial Layers
01:54 Linear & Forced Perspective
03:19 Atmospheric Perspective & Depth-of-Field
05:16 3 Types of Leading Lines
07:12 Foreground-Background Contrast
08:58 Color & Temperature
10:34 Lighting Techniques
12:29 Poses For Depth
14:07 Editing Techniques

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[annharrison]

Fantastic!! I’m going to have to watch this several times. It’s packed with useful information.

[PeterKambey]

JL, the best photographer & editor ever .. thank you a million for your excellent tips..

[antwilkphotography]

Great video, straight to the point and full of information.

[TruthFU]

I’ve seen lots different photographers explain different things. Your vid was to the point, visually interesting and packed full of useful information. Thank you!

[jiyalightsandshades]

That's a piece of wonderful information...Thank you so much for sharing...love it🥰

[notmyname]

Excellent but secret no 11 is "Use beautiful Models"

[vincentwong]

Excellent basic photo technique illusation for all photographers 👍

[johnsciandra-ei]

Thank you Justin. It is great to refresh on the compositional techniques. As far as using the editing tools I have been dealing with the halo effect between subject mask and background mask. I have learned some ways to fix this problem but once you know, you know. I now pixel peep looking for halo.

[rgarlinyc]

Very helpful Justin - thanks a ton! My favorites in order are POSES for DEPTH; FORE * BACKGROUND CONTRAST and finally, meticulous editing in Lightroom. Guess I should check out your course... I have some time set aside around later August.

[JennieBMurphy]

woww!! amazing teaching skills! checking out your course right now!

[zappa]

Very good information.
Adding cooler tones in the shadows and warmer tones in the mid/high works very well.
Acording to me you have overseen 1 element for 3D pop/dimensionality, and that is the use of a lens that is not overly corrected, like in Zeiss lenses and other low element count lenses for example.

[fernandoprima]

You'll see me in the next video, because I love your tips and the quality of your photos (totally superior to the AI-generated examples). Thank you for the generosity of sharing such high-quality videos, so neat and full of examples!
Favorite? I guess light on model and shadow on background, combined with color temperature.

[yamazaru]

Oh no! There's more to it than just buying zeiss lenses? Who would have thought?
(Was a really cool summary and a good refresh on all those techniques, thank you!)

[williamcarter]

Great video with solid techniques for someone new to research and implement into their photography. I just wish we’d quit calling things like this secrets. They are not secrets, they are techniques.

[PhotoArtChris]

In your example of leading lines, you use THE STARRY NIGHT as example.
But in my opinion, it’s more an example of rules of thirds combined with bright/dark balance. If at all, it is rather the line of mountains in the background that directs the view to the sun.

[stanspb]

This video should be packed into every new camera box. It is amazing how much money it spend on upgrading constantly when new whiz-bang advanced cameras do not produce better images when the real improvements come from using the basics more intentionally. The difference between a beginner and one who makes deliberately compelling images is not the camera. Investing in a workshop or an art appreciation class will make difference than anything a camera can contribute. A photographer who does not visit good art museums regularly is missing most of the answers that have already been discovered 500 years ago
I grew up in capital city of California and my father has a few old cameras, one large one was made in the late 1800s. We only had one art gallery but the most exciting 3 day of the year were 2 days driving to San Francisco to buy school clothes and to stop me from constantly begging to go to museums and San Francisco had 6 or 7. The other day that was a highlight of the year was the 1 day a year I dad would drive me to the local air-force base that has a main electronics surplus salvage facility to sell it off as scrape, and my savings of a 5 year old was was not much but much of it sold very cheap instead of for scrape. I as crazy over electronics and shortwave radio that later, when combined with photography where we developed roll, sheet and wet plates in a add-on to the garage. The combination of passion for electronics and photography took me to 92 countries and all the great art collections in public collections and some hidden away from the Public. I have a real photo studio now and live in a city with spectacular beauty and 475 museums and many great galleries that has the most advanced art restoration and research labs and where damaged art from around the world is sent to be restored.
Seeing the originals instead photos in art books. Art is not experienced as the artist intended, especially if the gallery is filled with tourists. Art lovers often have to wait until fall when the tourists have gone to their home country because every painting has a viewing distance the artist intended and his unspoken intended viewing distance is revealed in his selection of frame size. It make most use of his intended viewing distance being the distance you need to be at to be able to absorb then entire image without scanning side to side. In the tourist season larger painting are swamped by people getting very close to see the name. A more common every day version of the creator expectinga viewing distance that allows the full content to be perceived at once when looking at a billboard. It looks sharp, clear and absorbed instantly when seen at 100 feet but incomprehensible viewed at 10 feet. So move back for large paintings, his intent is found further away.

[LongLensPhotography]

just wondering if you have licensed everything that you used?

[Svoboda]

5:50 what’s with those lines in starry night? I don’t see a single line along the lines that are highlighted

[akashvirenprasad]

Bro made photography sound like Quantum Physics 😶‍🌫️

[WhatThePheel]

I think AI companies are learning your photography tricks. Their getting closer and closer to the looks of your edits lol