Tutorials
How-to: Fast focus stacking for food and drink photography
Oct 25, 2021
Alex Baker
When you’re shooting close-ups or macro you often find yourself at f/16 and still not getting enough depth of field. So that’s when focus stacking…
How to shoot action portraits on location using a wide angle lens
Oct 21, 2021
John Aldred
I love using wide-angle lenses on location (although I don’t do it anywhere nearly as often as I should). They’re fantastic for showing your subjects…
How to use Photoshop’s Channel Mixer to colour grade your images
Oct 20, 2021
Jake Hicks
There are a lot of ways to colour tone and grade your photos in Photoshop and although I primarily use Curves to colour tone my…
These 5 lighting tips from Peter Hurley will help you to shoot perfect headshots
Oct 20, 2021
Alex Baker
If there’s one photographer synonymous with the headshot genre it’s probably Peter Hurley. In this video, Peter walks us through 5 tips that he says…
How to take professional looking photographs of your own iris
Oct 19, 2021
Alex Baker
In this video, macro photographer Jens from Another Perspective walks us through how to take these intriguing ultra-close ups of your own or somebody else’s…
This simple camera strap trick helps you get steadier handheld photos and video
Oct 17, 2021
John Aldred
DIYP’s own resident travel photographer Dave Williams has taken to the road, travelling (for now) the UK for some off-grid living in a van to…
Three beginner off-camera flash mistakes you really need to avoid
Oct 17, 2021
John Aldred
When you’re first starting out photographing people with flash, it can be a bit overwhelming. Even if you’re used to shooting with natural light, the…
Here’s when, why and how to use flash for outdoor portraits in bright daylight
Oct 12, 2021
John Aldred
Have you been wondering why anybody would use flash outdoors during the daytime? After all, it’s daytime. It’s pretty bright already, isn’t it? So, you’re…
How to create Tiny Planets in Photoshop with a regular DSLR or mirrorless camera
Oct 11, 2021
John Aldred
Creating tiny planets has become really popular ever since consumer 360° cameras started becoming a thing about five or six years ago. So popular that…
5 ways to hack your wide angle landscape photos
Oct 7, 2021
Alex Baker
Shooting with wide very angle lenses can often produce some unique issues that you don’t encounter with other focal lengths. In this video, Toma Bonciu…