Tutorials

It’s not a triangle: it’s the exposure quadrangle

Oct 8, 2018 Edward Crim

The Exposure Triangle; you’ve heard of it, I’m sure. It’s fabled in story and song and celebrated by photo instructors everywhere. We can even buy…



Continuous LED lights vs Strobes – what’s best for your photography?

Oct 8, 2018 John Aldred

The whole “continuous vs strobes” choice is pretty easy if you shoot video. But for photographers, it can be a little more challenging. New lights…



Check out these 9 male model posts in only 90 seconds

Oct 3, 2018 John Aldred

Posing and directing men can be a difficult challenge for a lot of us. I know it is for me. Most of my non-animal subjects…



How to turn a small home studio into a concert stage

Oct 2, 2018 John Aldred

If we’re shooting in a small home studio, it can be a challenge to make images that look new and interesting. You often shoot the…



How to light two interview subjects with only three lights using cross key lighting

Sep 27, 2018 John Aldred

Interviews can be a fun lighting challenge, especially when you need to go back and forth between two subjects; The interviewer and the interviewee. There…



Use these 10 camera tricks to tell better stories in your videos

Sep 22, 2018 John Aldred

Shooting video usually isn’t as simple as just pointing a camera at something and hitting record. Sure, sometimes it is, but if you want to…



Very nice…how much??! – a breakdown of day rates in commercial photography

Sep 21, 2018 Shariq Siddiqui

It’s standard practice for commercial photography clients to ask photographers their ‘day rate’. Most estimates that photographers provide start with a day rate before going…



Light modifiers compared: when to use beauty dish, softbox or umbrella

Sep 18, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

There are different ways to modify studio lights and adapt them to your shooting needs. In this video, Manny Ortiz compares three popular modifiers: a…



Why you might want to use red or other coloured filters with your digital camera

Sep 17, 2018 John Aldred

Coloured filters have been popular amongst black & white film photographers for decades. Typically, these are blue, red, orange, yellow and green. They help to…



This in-depth beginners guide shows everything you need to know about manual exposure

Sep 17, 2018 John Aldred

Manual exposure. It’s probably the scariest term out there for new camera owners. Stepping out of automatic or semi-automatic exposure modes for the first time…