Requests for free work come in more ways than one. Would you agree to work for free? The visual art industry—including photography—is split into two with people on either side arguing vehemently on the virtues of whether or not we should ever do spec work. One way to think about it is to imagine the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This three-and-a-half-minute video of an ugly spat between a unicorn and a clown photographer on the subway was recorded by Mike Furlender. Let me rephrase that, because the clown was entirely at the receiving end of the verbal abuse. It was Halloween and the clown was photographing subway passengers in costumes. The usual, you might […]
You might think you need an abundance of expensive lighting gear in order to create a high key lighting setup for commercial quality images like those seen in hair and make-up ads. But that’s not true. Sure you need at least two or three lights, but you could work with a set of inexpensive speedlights and […]
If you’re into wedding photography, you know that one image that you must have is the ring shot. As simple as the shot my seem, it’s often frustrating when you have to deal with a bad background or poor lighting. In this video Paul Keppel demonstrates an easy to use technique to make that ring […]
Professional photography equipment isn’t the easiest of things to carry around. Cameras, lenses, and lights can easily weigh 8–10 pounds each. Lugging such heavy gear for extended sessions, a photographer is prone to muscle fatigue and is always at risk of injury. In this light-hearted video, Fiona of Image Studios shows how a photographer can […]
Mark Wallace has been traveling around the globe for several months now, and every now and then he comes up with an amazing tip or tutorial for photographers. In this video he shares an interesting photo technique which he has named “False Double Exposure.” When shooting through glass, especially shop display windows, there is always […]
When you see a picture of a cold beer in an advertisement, you probably don’t realize the attention to detail that went into it. Here, Lee Morris from Fstoppers gives you a step by step demonstration on how to set up lighting for illuminating a product shot in studio. It’s no easy task: Backlight The […]
