A soft focus lens is a great tool for portrait photographers. Soft focus lenses produce results that are reminiscent of the soft focus pictorialist photography style that was prevalent in the early 20th century. Buying such a lens, however, can be pricey. Luckily, you can build one at home. Randy Snook shows us how: Building […]
If you’ve always shot with a smaller format camera, like an APS-C, you might have spent a lot of time daydreaming about shooting with a full-frame camera; and for obvious reasons. But full-frame cameras aren’t the last word in photography. Medium format cameras are what many professional photographers crave. In this video, photographer Karl Taylor clears […]
“There’s no such thing as bad lighting.” Does this statement from an accomplished American cinematographer Michael Goi surprise you? Well, it all depends on the purpose or emotional message you want to convey. Joel Dryer uses a pretty horrific lighting setup to demonstrate that statement. And he explains that this sort of lighting can be perfect […]
When you’re starting out with any new skill, you’re bound to make plenty of mistakes. Photography is no exception. This video points out three common mistakes that most beginner photographers make. But the tutorial goes beyond pointing out mistakes and provides simple techniques to overcome them: 1. Blowing out highlights Many new photographers expose for the shadows […]
Jessica Kobeissi, Ruby James, and Irene Rudynk are three photographers who use similar equipment. Here, they’re challenged to photograph the same model under the same lighting conditions. With so much in common you’d think they might come up with similar looking shots. Not quite: Kobeissi used a Canon 5D Mark III paired with a 50mm […]
If you think winters are just for cuddling in front of fire sipping hot chocolate, think again. Some photographers spend hours in the cold making images—and not just of the dull, colorless landscape. Sometimes they indulge in a bit of self-portraiture. For Bella Kotak, a RAW frame is just a license to go wild. Here’s […]
What you’re going to learn in this video is one of the most important aspects of photography. This video sums up what is known as the inverse square law. It’s one of the fundamental laws used in not only photography but in a variety of other areas of physics as well. Daniel Norton demonstrates how, using this law, […]
Shafts of light streaming down from the sky our through a window makes for wonderfully dramatic lighting in photography. These shafts of light, especially when you create an atmosphere using smoke or fog, can really make your images pop. The setup may appear complicated when you first try it out, but it’s not so bad once you […]
If your studio has large windows with directional light, white curtains or sheers work well to give you soft, diffused light. Sometimes when they’re working in studio environments, photographers go a little overboard with lights and contraptions when all they really need is there already. This tutorial from photographers Joe McNally and Daniel Norton is a lesson […]
To create fire rain you need some steel wool, a whisk, long chains to secure the burning steel wool as you spin it, and the usual long exposure tools. You’ll also need a brave model to stand under the fire rain. Untamed Science’s Rob Nelson and Jonas Stenstom take us through the paces to create […]
