Working with off-camera lighting is a lot easier than most people think. But one thing that many people don't understand is a very simple concept about lighting: when shooting portraits, it's often best to make your subject face the light source to deliver a flattering image. Why?
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It looked like just another photo backpack when I took it out of its packaging. It had the finishing quality we're used to seeing from Manfrotto's products. But how did the Street Slim backpack hold up during a walk around the streets of old Dubai? thephoblographer.com »
2022-01-11 14:00
Last week, photographer Brendan Barry created a timely tutorial on how to turn your bedroom into a giant camera, and use it to take actual pictures. But what if you don’t have any photographic chemicals around for developing and fixing those images? Barry’s got you covered. petapixel.com »
2020-03-30 21:00
Planning to give wet plate photography a go but realized you're missing a 5x7 plate holder and haven't been able to find one? To the rescue comes Robert Bieber who recently shared on the r/Collodion subreddit his design for such holder. Now, all you need to do is get access to a 3D printer. thephoblographer.com »
2019-06-21 13:00
Make your photos come to life with this exciting levitation tutorial!
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There comes a point where the living for the weekend becomes such an obsession that it’s time to build a life around the driving passion. Life isn’t supposed to be lived in two day chunks followed by 5 days of monotony and anticipation. petapixel.com »
2016-10-07 19:06
There are no unbreakable rules when it comes to how you should compose your photographs After all, who likes rules except for your old school principal or heads of H.R. departments? There are however, several guidelines you can use to help improve the composition of your photos. boredpanda.com »
2016-09-19 16:59
Ever since embarking on a cross-country move last August I’ve been meaning to display some of my cameras and, at last, spurred by a recent PetaPixel post, I finally did. While I was inspired by the HANGIE cameras mounts, their $21 to $25 per-mount price tag and my tight budget required a cheaper, DIY alternative. […] petapixel.com »
2016-09-03 21:55
The late American fashion photographer David Seidner (1957-1999) was influential in his life, but his work has, sadly, gone underappreciated in the decades since his passing.
Being a freelance photographer is not easy. Chasing invoices, dealing with late payments, the list goes on, but very few have ever missed out on a payment of $8 million that was rightfully theirs. [Read More]
Photographer Larry Fink, best known for his black-and-white photographs documenting American society, passed away at his home in Pennsylvania over the weekend at age 82. [Read More]
There's a great trend going around right now involving an undoing of all the things that photographers have been telling you to do in the first place. It's got to do with the sharpness in a portrait.
If you're a huge fan of using the electronic shutter on your camera, know that you're probably not getting the best images that you can. Canon, as well as many other camera companies, tend to cut down on the depth with electronic shutter modes.
There's that hot trend going around the web all about the Blurry Photos aesthetic. Gen Z has gotten really into buying old digital cameras that deliver those blurry shots. The reason why they're so blurry though is partially because of the pixel density and how the autofocus worked back then.
A photographer has given free funeral portraits to nearly 3,000 elderly people in China's rural areas.
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