Photographers will often tell you that the best time to take photos outside is before, during, or after a storm. The reasons are many: diffused light, cool clouds, saturated colors (after rain), etc. However, one thing you don’t normally see on the list is swans. But it just so happens that one photographer, who decided […]
Natan Dvir is a photojournalist and a documentary artist who has a vast range of photographic experience for Polaris Images and other leading magazines. Born and raised in Israel, Natan moved to New York to pursue a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. In this video he discusses various aspects […]
You don’t often hear about live photography events. There are photography shows where you can view an artist’s work or photography exhibits where you can scope out new equipment, but rarely do you hear of an event where someone is actually taking the photos in front of an audience. Well on May 7th, photographer Jordan […]
There’s nothing worse than getting home thinking you’ve bagged a world-beater, only to look at your new prize on the computer and find that it isn’t sharp. This new eBook isn’t going to transform every image you shoot into a razor-sharp wonder, but it will give you some tools to nail that world-beater more often […]
It sounds like such a basic task: photograph a gold watch. But if it sounds simple to you, then you’ve never done it the way Phillip McCordall does. Light can reflect off the gold, creating glares, flares, and major wash-outs of detail. So, how do you expose for a still life that’s throwing your studio […]
Google Street View’s massive database of images covers thousands of locations all over the world. Biking and walking routes have been added along with time estimations for both. But perhaps one of Google’s coolest additions is their latest. They have moved from taking images outside to taking them inside, and have just recently photographed the […]
The last few years have seen the rise of one name from unknown amateur to photography legend — Vivian Maier. Over the course of a lifetime that saw her documenting the world around her, at one point taking photos daily with a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera, she amassed a staggering 150,000 negatives. Most of these […]
High dynamic range (HDR) photography is a technique that allows a photographer to take the same image at different exposures and then blend them together to produce one image that features the best exposed parts from each of the images. For a virtual tour, this is particularly useful, as most virtual tours rely on a […]
Exposure stacking is the process of taking multiple photos with different types of lighting and exposure settings, then blending them together into one photograph. This technique is used frequently in night photography, when a photographer wants to capture an object in the foreground while also capturing the night sky. Because the lighting of the foreground […]
Not all photographers have used artificial lighting before. In fact, some people only even rent lighting equipment when certain events or situations call for it, otherwise they just make do with natural light. For one, it’s expensive. The other reason? They don’t know how to use it. Learning how to use lighting equipment properly takes […]
