Photography Tutorials

This article is written to pin point three basic mistakes that you should avoid when shooting a model, in particular a female model.

Exposure stacking is the process of taking multiple photos with different types of lighting and exposure settings, then blending them together into one photograph. This technique is used frequently in night photography, when a photographer wants to capture an object in the foreground while also capturing the night sky.

Zack Arias is perhaps one of the most well-known photographers because of his web presence. Not only is Zack an amazing photographer, but he is a wealth of knowledge, and he doesn’t shy away from sharing his ideas and experiences online.

Finally, to light up the ornate doorway behind his subject, McNally adds one more warm-gelled flash and places it on the floor. He cleverly balances it on a Manfrotto 175F1 Spring Grip Justin Clamp with a cold shoe and sets it right on the ground, pointing upwards. Symmetry is fundamental, and framing his subject right between the doorway works to create a look of real heroism.

Professional snowmobiler and X-Games Gold Medalist, Justin Hoyer, teamed up with photographer Andy Kawa to create a freestyle snowmobile action sequence using high speed strobes and a Nikon D300.

Those new to the idea can be taken by surprise and even feel a little uncomfortable at the prospect of running a photography business. Their photography is now a product that needs to be sold. However, no one can run a successful photography studio in the long term if they persist with the idea of being primarily a photographer, while ignoring the necessary business aspects.

This tutorial video demonstrates how to create an image shooting overhead.

Photographers and other artists often have to manage and convert a huge chunk of images. If you want to convert a bunch of images to another file format, you will be happy to hear that there are tools that can do this job with a lot of images at once. In this tutorial we will learn to use a free tool called IrfanView, to make the image conversation process as easy as possible.

It appears as though some expecting parents are wanting to branch out in terms of their maternity photographs, giving photographers the chance to excessive their creative side. In this behind the scenes look, photographer Simeon Quarrie chose to work around the theme “A Day In The Life of a Pregnant Couple.” The parents-to-be brought a few props of their own to the studio and, by the looks of it, had a lot fun creating a series of non-traditional portraits.

You’re going to practice creating light trails by photographing passing vehicles. You will need a tripod for this technique (or some other way to stabilize your camera) as you will be opening up your shutter for a few seconds or more at a time, and you need your camera to stay perfectly still.