Guess what the Vibe Israel Tour brought forth on the streets of Jerusalem this time? Photographer Benjamin Von Wong. On an invitation to shoot pictures in the old city, Von Wong shot extreme stunts against the backdrop of Israel’s thousand year old architectural icons: No photo shoot is over without challenges. Every now and then […]
In this video Chelsea and Tony Northrup head out to the Ocean Beach Car Show. While enjoying an afternoon out, taking pictures of stunning automobiles, they share some interesting insights on how to take eye-catching photos of classic cars: If you are an automobile freak it is easy to lose focus in the midst such […]
In this hilarious video, DigitalRev highlights some of the most common mistakes that newbie (and sometimes not so newbie) photographers tend to make. While learning, we’ve all been there, making some of the most atrocious mistakes that can be made with a camera and a lens (and sometimes without either of them!): 1. Flashing from […]
Portrait photographers have always craved the know-how to create soft directional light for their work. Wait a minute! Soft directional light? Sounds kind of like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Yes, it does. And in this video, photographer Joe McNally shows exactly how to create it: You’d think that directional light would be harsh, more edgy, […]
Are you perplexed by the tiny numbers marked on your camera lens? Do you wonder what they are or what they do? They’re called f-stops and they refer to the opening of the lens, known as the aperture, which allows light to enter the camera. Each number indicates a measurement of the size of the […]
In this video, photographer Joe McNally explains how you can use a speedlight to mimic actual ambient lighting, which in this case would be the warm yellow-orange light produced by prayer candles inside a church in Mexico: The Problem Although the lighting was simple to set up, there were a few things to note. The […]
A ring light is like the king of portrait lights. It creates a beautiful, uniform light that illuminates the subject’s face. But what makes it truly ideal for portraiture is that it allows the photographer to shoot with a shallow depth of field. In this video, photographer Dani Diamond shows us how easy it is […]
In this video, Manni shows us how to apply a Nashville effect using Photoshop. Basically, the effect gives a bit of a faded, burnt out or retro effect to your images. If you’re an Instagram junkie you may have already used it using one of the preset tools. Manni’s method gives you a bit more […]
It’s painful to write something about Robin Williams in the past tense. Arguably the best stand-up comedian that our generation has seen, Williams passed away in his home on August 11, 2014, leaving behind a legacy that will be hard to surpass. While fans mourn, obituaries get published, and movies which bear the stamp of […]
In this world of two-minute passport photos, eye-fi memory cards, and wireless image transfers, it’s hard to imagine a bunch of people engaged in doing something that seems like a pursuit from the last century. For us digital photographers, film photography is well and truly dead (or so we are inclined to think). For the […]
