Category: Tutorials

Hugo shot a selfie every day for over eight and a half years

John Aldred

Stop motion and timelapse enthusiast, Hugo Cornellier reposts and updates his selfie timelapse every year or so, each time adding another 12 months’ worth of images onto the stack. This time around, he’s decided to ramp up the production value and stabilise all of the shots giving a much smoother and cleaner video, and he’s going […]

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How to colour correct and grade your video and stills with 3D LUTs

John Aldred

3D LUTs, or Look-up Tables, are nothing new.  They’ve been common in the digital film industry for a good while, but it seems only recently that they’re starting to be embraced by individual filmmakers and photographers. But what are 3D Luts?  Put simply, they’re a tonemap.  They take the hue, saturation and brightness (hence “3D”) values of […]

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How to choose the best lens for portraits and headshots

John Aldred

One question that I see coming up daily in various photography groups on Facebook is “What’s the best portrait lens?”, and the simple truth is that there isn’t one.  It depends on the camera system you’re using, the look you’re trying to achieve, and a bunch of other factors. In this video, Joe Edelman shares […]

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How to avoid flickering lights when shooting video

John Aldred

Anybody who’s ever shot video indoors will, at some point, have come across the issue of flickering lights and scanlines moving up and down your image while trying to record. Well, Jonas Stenstrom of Rob & Jonas’ Filmmaking Tips is here to help, explaining exactly what causes this and how to overcome it, even when your frame rate doesn’t […]

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Organization is key – 6 tools to keep your workflow in check

Clinton lofthouse

Benjamin Franklin once said “For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.” And no truer words have been spoken, well apart from “its finger licking good!”….but lets not get on to the colonel and his tasty chicken fillets. 😛 As photographers, most of us tend to have creative brains, which in my own experience, […]

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Faking the tilt-shift video look in Adobe Premiere Pro

John Aldred

Since the first tilt-shift timelapses started to appear online several years ago, it’s a look that’s been attempted, copied, and improved upon quite a bit.  Tilt-shift lenses, however, can be pretty expensive, and for something that you may only use occasionally, an expense you may not be able to justify. As a consequence, the tilt-shift […]

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How to add some extra stability to your long lens shots on tripods

John Aldred

Working with real big lenses is fun, but often troublesome.  Handholding with image stabilisation can help, but only until your arms get tired, which is where the trusty tripod steps in to give you a solid foundation on which to rest your lens. But even when working with tripods, the view can sometimes be a little unsteady.  In […]

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How to turn a bad snapshot into a great fine art black and white with Lightroom

John Aldred

I’ve never been a massive fan of the whole “Fix it in Photoshop” (or Lightroom, in this case) mentality, but it does undoubtedly offer its benefits, especially when the conditions under which you’re able to get the shot may be out of your control. In this video from Swiss landscape photographer and YouTuber, YuriFineart, we […]

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How to create “The Ring of Fire” effect in-camera

Sam Hurd

In late 2014 I was given a few pieces of piping. What you might call trash, but I call the ring of fire. It ended up being an incredibly useful tool in my photography. I quickly decided to add it to my (now literal) bag of tricks along with Prisming, Lens Chimping, my Broken Freelens, Anamorphics, etc). These […]

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