If you’re consistently struggling with poor auto-focus performance and want to know how you can improve, this video from Steve Perry is a treasure-trove of ideas that you can use. A camera’s auto-focusing performance depends on a number of aspects and any one of them can throw it haywire: 1. The Lens Needs to Be […]
This amazing shot of the Sutherland Falls was captured by William Patino, a New Zealand based landscape photographer. It captures the breathtaking beauty of the waterfalls right at the crack of dawn with the first rays of sun breaking across the top of the mountain: With a height of 580 meters, Sutherland Falls is the […]
Overcast days are great for shooting photos in the woods. You can experiment with photographing streams, waterfalls, trees, mushrooms and so on. However, shooting on overcast days and in dimly lit environments requires some planning and a meticulous approach. The following tips from Ross Hoddinot of NatureTTL will help: Don’t Include the Sky If you’re […]
Photography is a constantly evolving visual art form. And like all evolving art forms, new and more creative techniques keep revealing themselves. Though this technique isn’t new, it is new to many photographers. The technique is known as free lensing, and it involves a peculiar way of using your camera lens. Doug McKinlay from Adorama […]
There are certain camera functions we use all the time but that take up lots of our time without us realizing it. Steve Perry shares seven Nikon camera shortcuts that can significantly ease your workload: 1. Quickly Zoom to 100% Photographers often zoom in to check focus. Instead of pressing the + or – keys, press down […]
Photographing a majestic animal in golden light is a dream come true for any wildlife photographer. But not many get an opportunity to fulfill this dream in their lifetime. For photographer Thomas Bakke, however, things happened quite by chance. He was camping up in the mountains of Western Norway with his wife and two wolfdogs when he […]
When the weather outside isn’t exactly delightful, you can still produce some useful images. With a lightbox, you can use it to work on creating more interesting compositions. The objective is to keep your photographic muscles flexing. Doug McKinlay explains: Gear for Lightbox Photography McKinlay uses a 5D Mark III, a 24–70mm lens, and a 100mm […]
If you thought the thumbnail for today’s photo had an unmistakable Blade Runner vibe, you wouldn’t be the first one to think so. This image by Albert Dros is both creepy and ethereal at the same time: Dros shot this image with a Sony a7R III paired with a 100–400 lens zoomed out all the way […]
Have you ever worked through an entire shoot never realizing that you had the ISO set to 3200? Or have you made the mistake of not changing back after having taken a group shot with a shutter timer delay? If you, like most photographers, are guilty of such mistakes, here is a valuable checklist to help […]
You can associate a lot of things with Dubai: shopping, great food, breathtaking skyscrapers, and desert safaris. But one thing you’ll rarely hear tourists (more specifically photographers) say is, “Dubai is a great place to shoot Milky Way photos.” I mean, no way, not with all that light pollution! If you’ve seen NASA’s images of Dubai […]
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