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Seemingly one of the trickiest aspects of photography to get your head around is the aperture of your camera’s lens. Be it a highly expensive pro lens or the zoom on your point and shoot (most point and shoots control aperture for you), the aperture of the lens will control aspects of your photography in […]
As a child, photographer Thomas P. Peschak used to dream about the ocean—about sharks and sea turtles and reefs teeming with colorful fish and other interesting aquatic creatures. As he grew older and became a marine biologist, however, Peschak learned a terrible truth: as a result of overfishing and pollution, the ocean is no longer teeming with life except […]
Are you the type of landscape photographer who prefers soft, flowing long exposures? Do you use filters? Professional landscape photographer Brent Mail shoots the same scene using three different filters and compares the images. It all depends on your style and what you like, but the tips given in this video might help you figure which filters […]
There are a lot of tricks to proper portrait photography, and whenever I think I know them all (or close to that) I stumble upon one that I had no idea about. Moiré is a concept I always noticed, but never knew was a thing. Thankfully, this video from Adorama is here to explain to […]
It’s not every day that an 18 year-old’s school photography project makes headlines, but that’s exactly what happened to Shea Glover, a student at Chicago High School For the Arts. One of her courses required an independent project, so Glover decided to create a video montage of “things she found beautiful.” Watch Glover’s video below to see […]
There are a lot of photographers out there who will tell you that you need to use filters. Polarizing, ND, UV filters—they’re all said to have their uses, in some way improving photos, but have you ever put that theory to the test? Here, Tony Northrup not only urges photographers not to bother wasting money on […]
What makes a great photograph? Does the answer simply depend on technical composition or is there some other element that can infuse a technically-sound image deep meaning? Nature photographer Florian Schulz would say that the key to a truly moving photo is storytelling. A photographer may have mastered the technical aspects of the craft and create lovely images, but the most potent photographs […]
It’s been 38 years since Nasa’s Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched into space, beginning their mission to explore the Solar System and perhaps, one day, be found by intelligent beings in interstellar space. On board is a kind of time capsule—a Golden Record—intended to communicate the story of our world and our existence, to […]
I love optical effects in images, especially those that work time and time again. The following video is one of my favorite illusions; it involves a plain black and white image, and a simple trick that turns it into a color photo. The BBC posted this documentary segment showing the exact effect I’m talking about: […]
Ever wished your photo editing could be more efficient? Here are two quick keyboard shortcuts to use in Adobe Lightroom, guaranteed to speed up your post-processing to check for problems in highlights and shadows: Hosted by Arizona-based wedding photographer Trevor Dayley, this quick video introduces two hot keys—J and backslash (\). Hitting the letter J highlights blown-out […]
