Do you have the habit of photographing plates? This doesn’t refer to food photography, but to the backgrounds you capture to give you more options when you get to the editing process. In this video, Jay P. Morgan shares some great advice why photographing plates is important and how they can be useful for your work. They can definitely save you sometimes and help you get the shot even when everything seems lost....
Do you like scary movies? If so, here’s a light painting tutorial for you just in time for Hallowe’en, by Jason Page. You might want to sleep with the lights on after watching this! Jason shows us a handmade mask (well really it’s kind of a severed head but we won’t go there) that was created especially for him by Annie Jones. It’s sort of terrifying, albeit not half as creepy as some of the others on her Instagram page....
For most stills photographers, the only measure of exposure that many of us see (besides the camera’s built-in reflective meter) is the histogram; essentially a graph which covers the amount of each of the different brightness levels in your image. Although many photographers making the move to video might feel more comfortable shooting with a live histogram, they’re not the only ways to judge exposure. Nor necessarily even the best. In this video, Casey Faris walks us through the three main scopes available in DaVinci Resolve....
If you are a parent with a passion for taking good photos of your kids, this guide will walk you through it and help to improve your skills. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments section below. Happy learning! Posed vs. Candid shots Posed vs. Candid shots The first thing you might be asking is; “What do you mean by ‘candid and how is that going to help me take better photos of the kids’?...
Reflector is most likely the second or the third thing most of us buy after the camera. If you are a portrait photographer, you probably use it a lot. But are you using it properly? In this video, Joe Edelman teaches you how to use the reflector properly and create flattering light for your subject when shooting outdoors. And the way to do it is actually very simple. The whole point of portraits is to make people look good and create flattering shots rather than make the subject look bad....
