Tutorials

    Understanding Metering, Part One: Introduction by Ming Thein
    Jan 3, 2013 Udi Tirosh

    This is part one of Ming Thein‘s series on Understanding Metering. An image from my recent Introduction to Wildlife workshop, and a very tricky metering…

    Creatively Using A Snow Globe In Time Lapse
    Dec 26, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    Photographer Colin Mika was hired to shoot a sequence of time lapses for McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Instead of going the usual route of shooting different…

    Aspect Ratios And Compositional Theory by Ming Thein’s
    Dec 24, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    This post details Ming Thein‘s thoughts on aspect ratios and composition. Round plate in a square frame. The composition is ostensibly balanced, but a little…

    Mixing Continuous And Strobe Lights For Portraits
    Dec 18, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    For me, I’ve always used studio strobes as strobes, but Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz over at AurumLight reminds us that if you have access to a studio…

    How to Build A Clever iPhone Ring Light
    Dec 13, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    As a professional photographer & author of photography education site, I’m a self confessed lighting freak…my favourite light is called a ring light which give…

    Cross Section Light Painting is to Light Painting What Holograms Are To Photographs
    Dec 6, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    a while back we shared a light painting image created using a video that un-slices a human body. While light painting a cadaver is fun,…

    Build A Mega 50MP+ Wide Angle Digital Pinhole Lens
    Dec 5, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    I thought I’ve seen it all with pinholes. From getting them in walnuts to making a run on three 35mm films. David O’Sullivan proved me…

    A Portable Golf Cart On-Location Studio
    Dec 3, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    If you go out on location alone you know that one of the more frustrating things are the walks back and from the car hauling…

    How To Trigger And Waterproof Strobes Under Water
    Dec 2, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    Now, shooting underwater has a whole set of built-in challenges that we earth photographers don’t really have to deal with on regular terms. The lack…

    How To Create A Steel Wool Light Painting Vortex
    Nov 29, 2012 Udi Tirosh

    Our How I Took It Contest got an impressive number of steel wool light painting tutorials. I wanted to share this one from Mike Mikkelson…