Photography Blogs & Tutorials

A painter only needs to look at their palette before applying color to the canvas. Photographers have a different challenge, as they must locate their tones by studying a scene. Of course, this can be easy to bypass when you’re thinking about shadow, highlight, depth of field, shutter speed, and all of the other technical details that go into a photo. Still, as the great painter Kandinsky said, “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” To use it in... more

We’ve previously shared how you can convert your existing dSLR to shoot infrared images, but this approach is very touchy, technical, and would most assuredly void the warranty on your camera. Fortunately, for those wanting to shoot IR photos, Fuji has just announcedX-T1 IR, the first mirrorless infrared camera. “The X-T1 IR focuses on both [...]

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A group of photographers based out of Moscow, Russia have embarked on a fascinating project that’s taking them to some of the most beautiful locations earth has to offer. Amassingover 2000 images of 200 different locations on their website so far, the group has covered a lot of ground. With photos from the North Pole [...]

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Tripods are great, but not always convenient to carry with you. GorillaPods and other articulatedcamera mounts are wonderful, but they can get kind of costly. What if there was a device you could make yourself that replaced your traditional tripod, your GorillaPod, and your selfie stick (if you’re into that)? DIY-erMegan Yeomans crafted an ingenious [...]

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Eric Pare (previously) just sent in this killer light painting tip. I really enjoy following Eric’s work because he is right there on the verge of scienceand art. This timehe came up with a very clever light saber toy for light painting. Eric is using tube guards, which are originally meant for florescent bulb protection, [...]

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In November of 2014, Canon introduced us to its newest member of their low-cost prime lens family, the EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM pancake lens. Canon gaveus the 40mm version in 2012, and hoped to up the stakes by adding a wide-angle version this past year.

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If you think about taking your camera with you to your holiday, this article gives you a insight about how to get some breathtaking travel portraits. All what I am writing about are tips and tricks from my own experience, travelling the world with my camera. From preparations, equipment to talking with a stranger this [...]

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Adding texture to photographs was happening long before the invention of Photoshop and other editing programs. In the days of the darkroom, we would scratch negatives with pins, sand paper them, stain the photographic paper with fixer before exposing, layer two negatives on top of each other in the enlarger, or push our film ISO to increase grain. These days, with editing programs being our digital darkroom, we simply have yet another way of adding texture to photographs.

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Businesses beware! Theres a scam targeting wedding photographers It appears that theres a credit card scam targeting wedding photographers making its way round the Internet. Over the past several months, Ive been contacted by a number of unimaginably eager clients-to-be requesting to reserve my wedding photography services. These messages share several common elements: English is [...]

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If you’ve ever wanted to photograph a bottle (beer, wine, soda, ever water) and make it look like they do in the magazines or advertisements you’ll want to watch this!

In this video tutorial Lee Morris from Fstoppers shows how to light a beer bottle, step by step, one light at a time. See what each is doing as he adds them one by one. Check it out and scroll down below the video to get links to some of the gear he mentions in the video.

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