Do-It-Yourself Scrim for Better Outdoor Portraits
Do-It-Yourself: Pole Aerial Photography
Recommended: Do-It-Yourself Tilt-Shift Lens
One More Cool Use for Diffusing Panels - Setting Custom White Balance
Sunglasses: Cheap Key to Polarizing Photo Effect
Recommended: Do-It-Yourself $10 Digital Camera
Recommended: Making a Digital Holga
Do-it-Yourself: Three Cheap Mods that Do More With Your Camera’s Built-in Flash
Do-It-Yourself - Ten-Second Flash Diffusion
Do-It Yourself - PVC Light Box
Recommended: Do-it-Yourself Bokeh
Deals»
Canon Shooters: Good Low-Light 50mm Lens for Cheap with Coupon (2)
Sorry for the rush of Canon-specific deals lately, but it just doesn’t seem like there are as many good savings out there for users of other systems at the moment.
We talked a while back about 50mm 1.8 lenses as being one of the first upgrades an SLR shooter should get. Optics at 50mm aren’t too [...]
Lighting»
Do-It-Yourself Scrim for Better Outdoor Portraits (1)
The do-it-yourself scrim lets you shoot outdoors in direct sunlight while softening the sun enough to produce sharp portraits. The best part? It can be produced for under $30.
Photo Dissections»
Photo Dissection: Florida Brushfire (0)
Before our long hiatus, we started a series of articles called “Photo Dissections” to show you how some of the coolest photography out there was conceived and shot. Today I’m going to go through the process of shooting one of my photos of a Florida wildfire last year. This picture ran in a few different Florida newspapers, and it’s one of my portfolio pieces I use when applying for photojournalism jobs.
Photo Equipment»
Face Detection on Digital Cameras: Empty Marketing or Must-Have Feature? (0)
With all the new models of digital camera releaased at Photokina this week, I’m noticing a trend in the consumer-level digital cameras: face detection on digital cameras seems like it’s here to stay. Designed to automatically recognizes faces in a frame, face detection adjusts the autofocus to keep them as sharp as possible and the [...]
Photo Tutorials»
Resizing and Resampling for the Web - How to Best Show Your Work Off Online (0)
There are plenty of good personal photography sites out there, and odds are that if you shoot a decent amount, you’ll want to start a Web site to show off your work as well. But so many personal photography Web sites are ruined by a few mistakes and missteps when editing photos for the Web.
Software»
Photocalc: On-Location Photo Assistance for iPhone Users (1)
If you have an iPhone, the flurry of recent development for the new Apps Store produced a nice, cheap photography tool for the novice- to intermediate-level photographer. Meet Photocalc, an app that gives you an easy way to calculate some of the more complicated variables involved in taking a photograph.
The app, which costs $2.99, comes [...]
Video Tutorials»
Recommended: Food Photography Video - The Art of Deception (1)
I’m sure you’ve noticed that the burger you see in a fast-food advertisement seldom resembles the greasy, congealed mess you get from the drive through. Guys like this have a lot to do with it. Check out this video on food photography:
News»
Interchangeable Lenses for the Masses? (0)
One of the biggest advantages of owning a digital SLR system is the vast variety of interchangeable lenses. With a point-and-shoot camera, you’re locked in to a jack-of-all-trades lens that may not be the best solution in every photographic situation. A digital SLR owner is able to specialize his system much more, buying [...]
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