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With autumn in full bloom, now is the perfect time to go out and capture those fall colors. In this video, we see it’s possible to capture a diverse range of shots—in just 15 minutes: The video comes from Gavin Hoey, whose goal is to shoot exclusively with an Olympus OMD E-M5 Mark II and Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 […]
Ready to give your images an entirely new feel? For those of you who love working with textures in Photoshop, this tutorial walks through the new Texture Effects and the tools you need to rapidly speed up your workflow. For those of you who haven’t used textures with your images before, Texture Effects straightens the learning curve […]
If you live near Southern California, you might have seen a blazing flash of light on the night of Saturday, November 7. You would have been forgiven for thinking it was a UFO—in reality, it was a U.S. navy missile test, and it made certain photographers very lucky that night. For instance, this already-beautiful timelapse […]
When it comes to lighting, you’ve got to be creative. Sometimes a single light will be all you have, but you know there’s a better shot if you could only manipulate that light differently. In this video, Daniel Norton shows us how to turn a reflector into a main light source, completely changing the type of image […]
You may not think that speedlights are the most versatile when it comes to shooting portraits. There isn’t a lot that you can do with them, right? Wait until you see photographer Jeff Rojas create this dramatic hard-lit portrait using nothing more than two speedlights with two Rogue 3-in-1 Flash Grids: The trick is in […]
Have you ever looked closely at a mushroom? If you haven’t before, you will after seeing this remarkable album of brightly colored fungi: The sense of magical wonderment we get at seeing such vibrant colors in the middle of a forest are spectacular. For Training on Macro Photography: This guide covers everything you need to get started […]
To Sion Fullana, every passerby is a story waiting to be told. Equipped with a background in both filmmaking and journalism, Fullana routinely wanders the streets of New York in search of aesthetic strangers to photograph. However, while Fullana’s photography does sound similar to Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York project, there are two major […]
In this video tutorial, landscape photographer Robert Rodriguez speaks on the difficult art of composition. Composition is often considered the essence of a landscape photograph. But the problem really is in explaining what it is. Rodriguez draws analogies from another form of artistic expression—music—to attempt explaining composition. It’s an absorbing hour and a half of […]
An at-home photography studio is a fantastic supplement to support both aspiring and experienced photographers. However, there is a great deal of planning involved in designing a photo studio. Space, lighting, backdrops, props, and many more details need to be addressed before the studio is prepared to accept clients. Choosing to design a photography studio […]
You can associate a lot of things with the Beatles—the best rock band of all time, one of the very first bands to introduce psychedelia to rock and roll and maybe the first to experiment with diverse elements drawn from a wide genre of other musical fields—but photography? Believe it or not, there was one […]
