Forget buying a professional rain cover or carting a shower cap with you, if you want to protect your camera from rain and snow on the cheap, this creative quick-and-easy DIY solution will cost you less than $1.
Getting into fashion or beauty photography doesn't have to involve getting lots of expensive gear right away. As New York City-based photographer Jeff Rojas shows you in this short tutorial, you can capture three totally different looks with a very small footprint and just a couple of lights.
If you’re like me, you might have a hard time staying inspired in your photography. Here are 7 tips that have personally helped me.
If you're looking for a simple lighting setup for dramatic portraits, look no further. Photographer Aaron Anderson has put together a lighting tutorial that will show you how he uses one light, a black flag, and a white card to capture beautiful, dramatic headshots.
I really love the combination of street photography and rain, since rain changes the mood and the city completely. As a result, the most mundane things turn into drama, mystery, and poetry. Here are 3 lessons I've learned about shooting in the rain.
Recently I got a message from a person who said that they liked my pictures, but unfortunately they don’t have a "photographic eye." This inspired me to write the following article about basic aesthetics and their relationship to photography.
After showing you how to make a tripod using a piece of string, I’m going to go a little more surreal this time by explaining how an old frying pan can be used to get dramatic low angle images.
It's your job as the photographer to make your subjects look their best, and one of the first steps to making this happen consistently is knowing how to find a person's "good side" for portraits. It is possible, and photographer Joe Edelman explains how in this short video.
I attended the Palm Springs Photo Festival last week for the first time. I have heard for years what a great event it is but never could get my schedule to work so that I could participate. Well, this year worked out and I was so happy that it did.
It's summertime and everyone is on the move all across the globe. One thing we want to hang on to is our vacation photos. They're what we share with all our friends on social media and the one thing we hold on to for the rest of our lives. Here is how I took a boring vacation photo and turned it into a unique and memorable image.
For street photography, the choice of cameras and lenses is, simply put, huge. So where do we start? What IS the best lens for street photography?
I was delighted this week to see that one of my photographs from a recent wedding was selected as an ‘award winner’ in the ‘All About the Light’ category ISPWP’s quarterly competition. Even more so that the founder, Joe Milton, had selected it as his ‘photo of the day’ yesterday! Here is how I made this image.
There are a ton of tutorials online that will walk you through properly capturing or creating black and white photos, but this short video by photographer Jeff Rojas focuses on something different. He points out 3 things you may not have considered (but should) when editing any black and white file.
You don't need a ton of lighting gear to capture great portraits—a single strobe or speedlight will do. Don't believe us? Check out this simple and informative tutorial by Joe Edelman.
What is the best camera for street photography? What do you recommend? That is the question I get asked most.
I’ve seen a lot of threads and questions online regarding how to increase an Instagram following and get more traffic. But while there are plenty of great articles out there explaining various techniques (i.e. posting times, consistency, engagement, etc.) I haven’t seen a lesson on hashtags.
When I was a little boy my mother taught me the first and most important rule of photography: always keep your back turned to the sun. It’s a funny thing I’d grow up to develop a romantic relationship with backlight. These are the confessions of a backlight lover, and how you can start your own amorous episode with it.
Although my work ranges from dangling people off the edge of rooftops, to tying them down in underwater shipwrecks, to lighting them on fire—I recently discovered four steps in the process that have remained consistent year after year.
Traveling and photography go hand-in-hand, but without the right gear it can also be a pain. Fortunately, there's some great affordable travel photography accessories out there that will make traveling with a camera a joy.
Many prime lens lovers will tell you they don't need no stinkin' zoom lenses, just "zoom with your feet" as they say. But there is a point to zoom lenses, and it's not just the versatility of having multiple focal lengths—it's the ability to tell different stories with the same lens.
"If you can't fix it with gaff tape, it probably does not deserve to be fixed."
Truer words may never have been spoken, but gaffer's tape isn't just for fixing stuff. Here are 50 different ways to put gaff tape to work for you.
Thomas Heaton is quickly becoming an industry-favorite landscape photographer thanks, in large part, to the informative videos he's been creating, and his latest video is no exception. In it, he shows you how he's planning, packing, and otherwise preparing for a major landscape photography trip to the Alps.
World-renowned photographer Chase Jarvis has a major piece of advice to share, something he's calling "the dirtiest secret in photography." It goes like this: find inspiration outside of the photography world.
There are only a few people alive as qualified to give photography and composition advice as Huntington Witherill. A former "artist of the year," he studied under the great Ansel Adams and in this video he describes his approach to composing eye-catching images.
Portrait photographer James Allen Stewart wants to show you how to break the old rules of composition... with some new rules. In a recent video, he introduces two of his own rules that have helped him compose more interesting, dynamic images.
In a world filled with tutorials and workshops and webinars and so much free educational content it could make your head spin, the mentor-mentee relationship is too-often relegated to the "unnecessary" bin. But getting a photography mentor can be one of the most important steps you ever take in your career.
You may swear by natural light, but sometimes available light just doesn't cooperate. So for those times when you're faced with an overcast sky but need a sunset, or the ambient light is harsh and direct, these tips from photographer Adam Angelides will help you capture natural looking images by combining ambient light with flash.
If you've thought about selling your prints but struggled with all of the minute details of putting together a print run—paper type, sizes, pricing, etc.—this quick video by Thomas Heaton may help you figure a few of those details out.
I have always been interested in protest and civil disobedience. What first caught my eye was an episode of Whale Wars on Discovery Channel some years ago where activists were going to Antarctica and using direct action techniques to intervene in illegal whaling. Several series on, and last year I decided to go and photograph a protest against Japan’s hunting of whales and dolphins.
Get to know people, forget the rules, don't read books on composition, embrace imperfection, print your photos, and more... Here are 43 amateurish tips for capturing better images.