To help you compose more exciting and beautiful photographs, there are certain key composition techniques that you can use. Natural framing is one that is widely known, but needs careful and thoughtful application. Using framing can create extremely impressive and elegant images when done right. Here are some tips to help you.
Do you have painted canvas backdrop, or other textile, that you use for portraits?
Why clamp it up to a crossbar (and crop the top) every time you use it, when for about $10 you can build a permanent wooden mounting bar that begs to be included in the frame?
Focus and depth of field arethose kinds of topics that can quickly confuse newer photographers. When we’re just starting out, we think we know what it means, but our pictures are still blurred or everything’s too sharp and detailed and we don’t understand why. In this video from Wolfcrow, filmmaker Sareesh Sudhakaran walks us through [...]
It’s been a long time coming for Sony shooters, but they now have an official fast standard lens available with the newly announced Sony Planar T* FE 50mm f/1.4 ZA. No longer do you need to mess around with metabones adapters and put up with limitedautofocus capabilities, at least, not if you want a 50mm [...]
Creating portraits outdoors in harsh sunlight is a pain. It’s why people tell you to not go out and do it during a bright sunnyday, and to wait until golden hour. Personally, I love it, although I’m often doing it with flash or reflectors but it can be done without those, too. In his latest [...]
Right now is the best time in the history of photography to get into ultra wide-angle lenses. In the last few years, lens designers have given us quality that is far better than ever – in fact, far better than we ever thought possible. Yet you may have been... more
If you’ve ever tried doing a facebook live session you know that using your phone’s onboard microphone really sucks. Here is how we solved this problem with a $15 cablefrom rode. Of course, we do assume that you have a microphone capable of producing great sound (we are usingRode’s Filmmaket kit). So it is not [...]
The Yi 4K Action camera from Yi Technologywas launched in China back in May. If buyers in other countries wanted it, they’d have to order from thereand deal with often fairly long shipping times. Now, the Yi 4K has been officially launched in the USA and isavailable on Amazon. Normally, Chinese action cams don’t tend [...]
It’s Day 6 of our 7 Day Mid Year Sale, and for the next 24 hours you can grab a copy of The Complete Photography Tutorial Ebook by Richard Schneider at 61% off.
Richards guide normally sells for US$99. But hes made it available to the dPS community for just US$39, today only.
At over 250 pages, this may be the most in-depth ebook on how to capture amazing photography... more
It’s that word again. Exposure. It doesn’t keep a roof over your head, it doesn’t pay the bills or put food on your table. But can you capitalise on it and turn exposure into income or provide any other real benefit? New York based fashion and portrait photographer Jeff Rojas believes so, and in this [...]
