November 12, 2011

If you've never done studio portraits before, check out this uber-helpful video that quickly runs through five basic lighting techniques commonly used by photographers everywhere.

If you're looking for a creative way to display your photos (and decorate your home), papernstitch has a tutorial on how you can make circular picture frames using embroidery hoops. The photographs are printed onto PhotoFabric and then held taut between the hoop rings.

Here's a video in which interior photographer Roger Brooks walks through how he goes about lighting, photographing, and stitching residential interior photographs.

This behind-the-scenes video shows how fake rain inside a studio was used to shoot a series of action shots for Men's Health magazine.

We're starting to have quite a collection of photographs showing cameras -- both film and digital -- in different states of disassembly. This one shows a Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro DSLR.

This behind-the-scenes video shows Montreal-based photographer Von Wong doing a photo shoot with a tango dancing duo. The shoot was spontaneous, with none of the locations preplanned, which gave Wong the opportunity to explore the environment.