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Getting a handle on using your camera’s various settings and tools can sometimes make you want to pull your hair out—and the histogram is one of the trickiest to understand. Looking more like something to measure earthquakes than camera data, the histogram often has beginning photographers scratching their heads. But professional photographer Joshua Cripps breaks […]
Quality multi-light setups can be quite expensive, yet without them it can be challenging to get the highlights and fill we’re looking for in a quality studio shot. In the video below, photographer Pyre Jirsa demonstrates how to get a great the multi-light look with just a few light modifiers and an on-camera flash: The […]
Perhaps you’ve seen a photo of a river, waterfall, or ocean waves where the moving water looks like silky, flowing ribbons of mist and wondered how the photographer created that effect. Well, it’s not as hard as it seems, and it’s one of the many special effects that can be achieved with long exposure photography. […]
Over the last nearly 200 years, war photography has been used to communicate both truth and propaganda about conflicts around the world. War photographers and journalists put their lives on the line to capture the realities of war—but in addition to the risk, danger, and courage involved, these photographers play another important, often overlooked role: they […]
There’s always been a race between Photoshop and Lightroom when it comes to fine-tuning pictures. Just when I settle down for one of the programs and start using it regularly, I see something that makes me turn back to the other: Today’s “switch back to Photoshop” reason: restoring shadows and highlights in a JPEG image. […]
Are you in the market for a new camera but not quite sure what to buy? Fashion photographer Lindsay Adler explains the difference between the many types of cameras and what they’re used for, and gives advice on how to spend money on the right camera for you: Before you set out to buy a new […]
If there’s one thing everyone – photographer or not – should know about wild animals, it’s “keep your distance”. This rule goes double when the animal is eating, and triple when their young are nearby. These are the most vulnerable times for an animal, and they will fiercely defend themselves and their food/babies from any […]
If you’ve spent time shooting people or products inside a studio then, chances are, you’ve shot a white background before. In this video, photographer Mark Wallace discusses a common pitfall of shooting subjects against a white background — lighting the background insufficiently so it appears gray instead of white. He offers a couple of solutions, […]
You’ve likely seen Dorothea Lange’s most well-known portrait, “The Migrant Mother.” It has become a visual symbol of America’s Great Depression and the plight of farmers-turned-migrant workers fleeing the devastating drought conditions—known as the Dust Bowl—in the country’s Great Plains region. It’s a photograph that almost never came to be. Lange was driving alone in rural […]
Cats and the Internet go together like… well, LOLcats and cheezburgers. We of the online era love pictures of our feline friends (often accompanied by a charmingly misspelled caption). But is it really possible that someone has finally found the “Cutest Kitten in the World”? Apparently so, and that man is Ben Torode. Based in […]
