Here are four ways to find your stolen photos online

If you are a good photographer and you upload your photos online, it’s inevitable that someone will steal them at some point. Although it’s in a way flattering that someone likes your photos, it’s by no means the way to express their liking. If you want to check whether someone has stolen your photos and […]

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Getting Creative with Unexpected Weather on Vacation

I recently took a trip to Raleigh, NC to visit friends. One of my goals, wherever I visit, is to see the local sights and spend a lot of time doing photography. During this trip, the first three days were gorgeous, sunny days. But the last two, we experienced unusual all-day rain in Raleigh. I…

This 3 step raw colour correction tip will fix your white balance woes

Even if you plan to alter or grade your footage afterwards, having an accurate and consistent starting point makes your life much easier. Getting perfect white balance without a grey card, Expodisc, ColorChecker or fancy colour meter can be tricky, though. But it’s not impossible. This video from Blake Rudis at f64 Academy walks us through […]

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How and why to use audio effects to make incredible videos

Although most of us are photo and video lovers, you have to admit – there’s no good video without good audio. You can watch a video with poor video quality, you’ll get through it. But it’s quite difficult and annoying to watch one with bad sound, with lots of muffling and crackling. Audio plays a […]

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Khloe Kardashian is being sued for posting a photo of herself to Instagram

I don’t normally care what the Kardashians do. This current suit being brought against Khloe Kardashian, however, highlights something rather important. It’s something often misunderstood by clients, celebrities, and the general public alike. Just because you appear in a photograph does not mean that you have the legal right to use it. According to The […]

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Australian hotel offers guests to pose for nude portraits [NSFW]

The Art Series Hotel Group from Australia offers their visitors quite a unique package. From May 1 to June 15, all the guests will be able to get nude, strike a pose and have a team of artists turn them into a masterpiece. The “No Robe package,” as they call it, allows guests to pose […]

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Google Research team experiments with low light night time landscapes that are surprisingly good

Google’s Gcam research team focuses on computational photography. They develop the algorithms that assist in shooting photos with smartphones and other small cameras. When one of the team’s then researchers, Florian Kainz, went out to shoot under a full moon with a high end DSLR. He got one photograph he was particularly proud of, so […]

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My camera died on a photo shoot, so I used my iPhone instead

So you turn up to a portrait shoot and meet your model. You’ve scoped out the location, organised outfits and the weather is perfect. Only thing is, you pick up your camera and it isn’t working. Something’s wrong with the lens. You’re a hobbyist, so you don’t have any spares. You should’ve checked before you […]

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NAB 2017 Instagram Recap

Thanks to everyone who followed along with me on Instagram this week at NAB 2017. For those of you who don’t follow Photography Bay yet on Instagram, take two seconds and follow me here on Instagram. For those not on Instgram, below is some of the daily stuff you missed. I don’t have the stories in […]

Photographer of the Day: Steve Lavelle

Category: Sports Photography Photograph: “Racing Car” by Steve Lavelle Dragging the shutter–slow shutter speed–and panning keeps the car in focus as the background appears to be racing by. Steve added a slight vignette to draw our attention on the race car. Originally shared with the Photofocus Flickr community right here. To learn how your work can be…