Category: Tutorials

6 essential tips to get the best sound and comfort out of a boom pole microphone

John Aldred

If you shoot video for long enough, and you’re interested in getting quality sound (you should be), then at some point you’re going to use a boomed shotgun mic. They’re not as easy to work with as you might first think, though. Bad technique can lead to the microphone picking up vibration and handling noise. […]

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Up your game on Instagram with these street lifestyle photography tips

John Aldred

Images on Instagram generally tend to fall into three categories. Food & Drink, travel & lifestyle, and then everything else. Even when just photographing friends for an Instagram post, the lifestyle kind of images tend to perform well. But creating a pleasing lifestyle image isn’t really as straightforward as just pointing your phone at your […]

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Easy product photography setup you can use at home

Dunja Djudjic

Product photography requires you to really make the subject really pop. You want to make the customer buy a certain product, and for this, you need a perfect photo. You may need that super-expensive gear and a studio are a must to create appealing product photos. But, photographer Tom Watts shows you a simple product […]

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A guide on how to approach dodge and burn, what are you trying to fix?

Joseph Parry

Dodging and Burning images is something that I see every day in photography and it seems to have two purposes: Artistic character and removing luminosity based distractions. Today I’m going to be talking about the latter, removing luminosity based distractions. I’m going to assume you already know how to do dodge and burn (and if […]

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How To Create Completely Fake Yet Totally Authentic Ski Chalet Fire Light Photos

JP Danko

We recently spent some time skiing at Mont Tremblant in Quebec Canada. One of the highlights of skiing is, of course, the apres ski. For me that means sitting by the fire with a good book / coffee / scotch. In this post, I will share all of the details (technical and aesthetic) that went […]

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Improve your aerial footage by learning your drone’s intelligent flight modes

John Aldred

Shooting quality aerial video is the main reason that most people get a drone like the DJI Phantom 4 Pro. So, when your footage doesn’t look that great, it’s a bit of a disappointment. Often, though, the problem is simply down to not understanding how your drone works, and the different flight modes it offers. […]

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Quick Tip: Macbook photoshop running slow? Check your downloads folder

Udi Tirosh

Here is a quick tip we got from photographer and soundman extraordinaire Matthew Monroe. If Photoshop on your Mac is running slow, or worse, giving you the “scratch disks are full” message, there are things you can do. Let’s talk about scratch disks for a second: scratch disk is where Photoshop stores information which is too […]

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How to use an old photography technique to create surreal digital images

Yuga Kurita

I re-invented a new photographing technique. The technique is new in the digital domain but, in fact, the phenomenon itself was known since the early era of digital photography. I don’t remember the name of the camera but I heard that digital cameras could not capture colours before the Bayer filter was invented so you […]

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