A Great Graphic for Understanding How ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed Work
Check out this awesome exposure triangle graphic found in this Exposure Guide tutorial on the fundamentals of exposure:
Check out this awesome exposure triangle graphic found in this Exposure Guide tutorial on the fundamentals of exposure:
Want a better understanding of how the metering and AE-lock features in your DSLR camera work? YouTube photography tutorial …
Looking for free lessons on how to get started with using Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to post-process your photographs? Look no further than the official YouTube channel of New York City camera shop B&H Photo Video. The store often invites well-known professional photographers to hold lectures on subjects they're knowledgable in and passionate about. The collection of videos aren't as shared as other shorter tutorial videos you'll find online due to their great lengths -- they run up to two hours each -- but they're fantastic resources for learning the ins and outs of photography.
In the video above, photographer Tim Grey offers an overview of using Photoshop CS6 for optimizing your photos. His topics include adjustment layers, image cleanup tools, cropping, rotating, correcting perspective, and applying local adjustments.
If the photograph was a living person, what would his Facebook timeline look like? Photo aggregation service Pixable decided to answer this question, creating a giant infographic on the history of the photograph with the layout of a Facebook timeline. It all starts at the very bottom of the timeline, with the photograph's birth at around 1000 AD. Over the years, we see the marriage he has with Kodak, the Kodachrome process born to the couple a few decades later, and a subsequent relationship she has with Digital Camera.
On of the neat things about working at Google is the fact that the company loves letting its employees hear from the world's best minds through the AtGoogleTalks. Through the series of lectures, Google invites well-known individuals to share on their area of expertise for 40-70 minutes. In addition to the thousands of politicians, musicians, and entertainers who have shared so far, there have also been a number of photographers invited for Photographers@Google presentations.
The video above shows a lecture given by HDR landscape photographer Trey Ratcliff last year.
Photography instructor Mike Browne of PhotographyCourses.Biz has a clever way of teaching the basic principles of flash photography. He uses water from an ordinary garden hose as an analogy for light, showing different ways you can go about soaking your portrait subject.
We've shared this same topic here a couple of times before, but Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens created this video lesson showing some examples of how profound of an impact your focal length choice can make.
If you’re interested in the subject of lighting, check out Guess The Lighting.
Want to learn more about your Canon DSLR without leaving the comfort of its LCD screen? Canon has a …
Beginners: Ever wonder why your photos don’t look ‘professional?’ Amateurs: ever wonder why you lack consistency? Pros: Ever wonder why you lose your edge or drive? Wonder no longer. This article deals with some of the most common oversights by photographers of all kinds, and how to avoid them.
Ever wonder how much you’re paying to keep your rechargeable camera batteries juiced? The answer: probably around a buck …
Video game developers have learned over the years that socially-shared achievements are a great way to encourage beginners to learn new tasks. Taking a page from their book, Adobe has a neat new game called LevelUp that encourages Photoshop learning using the same tricks. Available for CS5 and above, the extension encourages exploration and assigns missions to introduce features and tools that player might never have seen before. Tasks include removing redeye, whitening teeth, and replacing the colors in a photo.
Is your browser color managed? If not, the photographs you are looking at are distorted versions of what their creators intended them to be. Is the car above rendered in school bus yellow, or in a jarring purple?
One tip that instructors often pass onto the beginning photographers is to use their …
Here's your interesting piece of photo trivia 'o the day: John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, was the first president to have his photograph taken (the earliest photo still in existence, at least). The daguerreotype was shot in 1843, a good number of years after Adams left office in 1829.
Here’s another video featuring SF photo shop Photobooth and its tintype …
Have you ever wondered how Leica chooses its pricing for its high-end cameras? J Shin has written up …
Here’s a 10 minute photography lesson by Karl Taylor on the four main …
Digital camera sensors come in two flavors, charge couple device (CCD) sensors and …
High definition video recording is a standard feature on digital cameras these days. If you’ve never really understood the …
Matthew Gore of Light & Matter created this beginner-friendly video tutorial on the …
It’s been a while since I wrote a history article and two or three people seemed to like them. I’ve pretty much covered the development of early cameras and lenses so it’s time to consider the way we recorded those images so other people could see them. No, I’m not talking about Facebook. I’m talking about film. Actually, I’m talking about even before film, mostly, but I really wanted to work that ‘development of film’ bit into the title. Pretty great, isn’t it? OK, maybe not.
Photographer Shane Murphy has written up an …
When German image sensor scientist Joachim Linkemann gave a talk called “Advanced Camera and Image Sensor Technology” at Automate …
In 9th grade, photographer Joe Edelman was given the assignment of creating 5 …
Here’s a video in which photographer Ryan Schude walks through how he went …
Even if you have a good command of using f-stop numbers and properly exposing photographs, you might not understand …
Here's a tutorial by skateboarding photographer Michael Burnett in which he discusses various composition tips and techniques. His area of expertise is in shooting skateboarders, but the tips are very applicable for other types of photography as well.
Vimeo has partnered up with Nikon for a new educational video series titled …
Here's a tutorial by photographer Joe Edelman that teaches how you can build a studio lighting setup with fluorescent lights for under $200. You can find a detailed parts list over in the description of the video on YouTube.
The digital photography course offered by Stanford (CS 178, which we …
Here's what Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism, said about his concept of "The Decisive Moment" in an interview with The Washington Post in 1957.
Here’s a helpful video that shows how you can optimize your Canon DSLR for video recording based on …
Bart Zoni of Leica Boss made this short video explaining the main differences …
PBS art series Off Book created this short video that presents a brief history of the animated GIF.
Ever wonder how photographs were made back in the days of the Civil War? This video by the George …
KEH has published a helpful primer on memory cards that describes the different …
Photographers used to spend lifetimes building up their portfolios and networks before their work became widely known to a global audience, but with the advent of the Internet, the fact that anything can "go viral" is completely changing the equation for success.