A lot of us don’t like the way we look in photos. Despite what it says about our collective self-esteem (not to mention an oversaturation of perfect body types and societal pressure to look a certain way), we are always striving to look better, healthier, and thinner in photos. That’s where Peter Hurley speaks right to […]
They say to always shoot for the moon—but in photography, when you fail, you don’t land amongst the stars. Your moon just looks like an overexposed lightbulb. If you want to up your moon game as a photographer, there’s no better tutorial than this one: Host Tony Northrup starts off with a Canon 18–135 lens and his […]
From the same daredevil company that brought you that ridiculous stratospheric freefall (that’s Red Bull, for those unaware) comes this 45-second behind-the-scenes glimpse at how skydivers snap perfectly composed shots, despite plummeting swiftly from an airplane toward certain death: Red Bull has teamed up with Wolfgang Lienbacher to create this seemingly simple three-step process to show amateurs how it’s done. Lienbacher starts […]
Have you ever wondered what the process is behind classic film? How does exposing light to a thin slice of coated silver bromide create replicas of what’s in front of the lens, and how did digital technology mimic that? For all those answers and a head-spinning amount more, check out this quick 10-minute video lecture on the […]
Ilko Alexandroff is a surreal fashion and travel photographer, born in Bulgaria but now living in Japan. His experiments with light—silhouettes, bokeh, patterns—have led him to step out in the rain every so often for a few creative self portraits. It takes a lot of prep to keep all his gear dry, but the results are pretty […]
In a stunning example of creative portrait photography, Leo Rosas has shot a single model 11 times, using 11 different post-processing techniques to depict more than 160 years of photography. The video is less than two minutes, and worth a look: For those curious about what each type is and what years they’re replicating, here are the images with […]
Flipping through old photo albums, you can see how much you’ve changed since you were a kid. Sometimes people even recreate old photos to relive past memories. But few create fully blown composites from self-portraits taken in 2005 and 2015: That’s exactly what Arjun Hair, a 21-year-old photographer from British Columbia, did—he grabbed a silly photo of himself […]
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 […]
Shooting with natural light can lead to beautiful landscapes and portraits, but controlling the sun is difficult—you need reflectors, the right positioning, and patience in case clouds change everything. Sometimes, you just need to overpower the sun—this video shows how: Cameras don’t have great dynamic range—they can’t keep everything perfectly exposed, even if it looks that way to us […]
Photoshop nerds, rejoice! Someone has created a Photoshop file that depicts, in real-time, how the edits you make are translated in Photoshop’s curve system. It’s difficult to explain, but this video shows it all: The video comes form Pratik Naik, who excitedly explains how the curve shows everything from multiple color properties to basic brightness/contrast adjustments. Casual photographers may […]
