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If you’re into portrait photography you know that shooting indoors and outdoors requires slightly different approaches. If you’ve been shooting indoors mostly, you may have struggled initially when making the transition to an outdoor setup. The trick is in knowing what to expose for, using the ambient lighting to good effect, and using an external light to complement […]
With so many cameras adding in features for timelapse photography, it’s no surprise that many people assume it’s an easy skill to just pick up and shoot. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Like many forms of photography, shooting timelapse requires enormous amounts of patience. For instance, the timelapse movie Patience was captured by professional timelapse photographer […]
Here’s something mouth-watering for all of you folks who love photographing automobiles: Joe McNally inside the garage of the Domenick European Car Repair Company with his Nikon D810. This is a family owned business that specializes in restoring vintage beauties. Here’s how McNally arranged, lit, and shot the images: As you can imagine, a garage isn’t […]
Not all photos are just one shot. Digital overlaying is an editing technique that involves blending multiple shots together to create one finished photo. Brazilian photographer and artist Vitor Schietti does just that using light painting and Photoshop: Schietti and his assistant start out by creating their own light paintings, and then they blend individual […]
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A new original series by VSCO kicks off with a break down of how to photograph people. Lesson 1 talks about the basics—the general rules to keep in mind when pointing your camera in the direction of your subject, whether that person is a friend, a family member, or a stranger on the street: There are two main […]
Most of us know that the golden hour is one of the best times for outdoor photography, but what happens when the light fades just a little too much? Do we call it a day? Not according to Jay P. Morgan. Just bring along a Speedlite or two and a Pocket Wizard, and you’ll find your window […]
One of the wonderful aspects about taking photos is the vast amount of creative control you have. In this video, landscape photographer Joshua Cripps reminds us how to use shutter speed, aperture, and ISO to balance and perfect an image’s exposure to achieve captivating photography results: Remember, it doesn’t matter what you use: a stop is a […]
When shooting without flash, you try to use the light in your environment that works best. When shooting with flash, you often shoot inside and focus on altering the lights pointed at your subject. But often we forget that you can use the environment to help create a natural look with artificial light. In this […]
As photographers, we want to show ordinary things from an extraordinary angle. And what best way to do this but to zoom in and magnify parts and bring the smallest objects into literally larger than life sizes. Getting the perfect macro shot of a subject is definitely a photographer’s ultimate dream. But macro lenses can […]
