Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Concert photography is one of the hardest subjects to nail down for one main reason: the conditions almost always have low lighting and you aren’t allowed to use flash. With that said, there are some tips for optimizing your concert photography experience. Whether you’re equipped with a DSLR and a photo pass for a big arena show or simply shooting a local band in a pub or a school performance, use these tips to enhance your low lighting photography.

1. Choose a Low Lighting... more

Lightroom is a fantastic tool for organizing, editing, sharing, and even printing photos and is an essential tool in the workflow of many photographers today. Unfortunately, it sometimes gets a bad rap when compared to its big brother Photoshop since the latter can do far more in terms of altering, enhancing, changing, or otherwise editing pictures and images. That’s not to say it is a slouch by any means, and you might be surprised at what it can do when you start to learn to use more... more

Photoshop version 3.0 was the version that introduced me to Photoshop. It came out at the end of 1994, and I discovered it the following year while in college. I had no idea what I wanted to do with it at the time, but it was still amazing. I’d never seen anything like it, and […]

The post This was how you installed Photoshop 23 years ago appeared first on... more

Weve seen cameras tortured and destroyed in all kinds of ways: shot, smashed, and even chewed by ants. But it slowly melting due to the acetone fumes is somehow more elegant. The guys from YouTube channel Amazing Timelapse exposed a plastic Konica film camera to harsh acetone fumes. It turns out, the camera cant survive […]

The post Watch acetone fumes make this camera melt... more

These 19 images will get you started on the road to this week’s photography challenge to shoot some cars.

By Darlene Hildebrandt

Weekly Photography Challenge – Cars

This one shouldn’t be too hard to find a subject. There are cars pretty much everywhere. You may be thinking... more

When you carry a camera and take photos, awkward moments are inevitable from time to time. Whether youre a hobbyist or a pro, the camera seems to simply attract all kinds of weird situations. But, some of them repeat themselves more often than the others. Ive been into photography for about ten years, and these […]

The post The awkward moments of a photographers life appeared first on... more

It’s insane to think that hard drive space has gone from around $500,000 to as low as $0.03 per gigabyte in the last 36 years. It has, though. But that drop in price is slowing down. It has to. Even as recently as 8 years ago, drives were hitting under $0.10 per GB. Backblaze recently […]

The post Storage price per GB keeps dropping – unless you use 6TB... more

Shiny objects syndrome – we’re all guilty of it. Oh, look – squirrel!

But realshiny objects can be tricky to photograph, so let’s see what these photographers did with actual shiny things – cars and automobiles! I’ll even start by sharing a couple of my own images of cars:

By Darlene Hildebrandt

... more

Bob Holmes is one of the world’s most prolific travel photographers. With a career spanning more than 35 years, he’s shot for National Geographic, Life, Time and hundred of other major magazines and international companies. So, it’s safe to say he probably knows what he’s talking about when it comes to making photographs. Marc Silber […]

The post Why knowing your... more

Even though I’m not really a landscape guy, I love waterfalls. For me, they regularly serve as the backdrop to a portrait session. The big problem with waterfalls, though, is that they can often turn out quite blue. There’s a number of reasons why this can happen. Sometimes it’s white balance issues. Personally, I find […]

The post How to fix blue waterfalls in your... more

Pages