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Drones are expensive, but balloons are cheap. That’s the moral of this video by BBC Earth Unplugged: if you don’t have a professional-grade drone, all you need are some balloons, a helium tank, some fishing wire, and a wide-open field: The camera itself—a smartphone—is strapped into the cut-off top of a two-liter plastic bottle. That way, if the […]
If you’re a hobbyist, they want to help you take better images, and really capture the important things in your life. This is probably the most important type of photography that can be created right now. Be stoked. If you’re a pro, they want to help you create a successful business that makes you happy. There […]
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 […]
Buildings and structures are more than just the materials of which they are made. They serve a purpose, whether industrial, ornamental, or pedestrian. Frankly, they are great subjects to photograph. Iconic structures can be a monument to an important event or even become a landmark and symbol of an entire city or country like the […]
With autumn in full bloom, now is the perfect time to go out and capture those fall colors. In this video, we see it’s possible to capture a diverse range of shots—in just 15 minutes: The video comes from Gavin Hoey, whose goal is to shoot exclusively with an Olympus OMD E-M5 Mark II and Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 […]
Ready to give your images an entirely new feel? For those of you who love working with textures in Photoshop, this tutorial walks through the new Texture Effects and the tools you need to rapidly speed up your workflow. For those of you who haven’t used textures with your images before, Texture Effects straightens the learning curve […]
If you live near Southern California, you might have seen a blazing flash of light on the night of Saturday, November 7. You would have been forgiven for thinking it was a UFO—in reality, it was a U.S. navy missile test, and it made certain photographers very lucky that night. For instance, this already-beautiful timelapse […]
When it comes to lighting, you’ve got to be creative. Sometimes a single light will be all you have, but you know there’s a better shot if you could only manipulate that light differently. In this video, Daniel Norton shows us how to turn a reflector into a main light source, completely changing the type of image […]
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 […]
Have you ever looked closely at a mushroom? If you haven’t before, you will after seeing this remarkable album of brightly colored fungi: The sense of magical wonderment we get at seeing such vibrant colors in the middle of a forest are spectacular. For Training on Macro Photography: This guide covers everything you need to get started […]
