Tutorials

    Lighting setup: Combining hard and soft light
    Dec 9, 2021 Jake Hicks

    Trigger Warning: Yes these shots are of a young lady in her underwear and no that is certainly not necessary for this setup to work….

    Try these DIY portrait backgrounds to improve your holiday portraits
    Dec 7, 2021 Joe Edelman

    It’s the holiday season and I have a few cool tips to help you upgrade your portraits of family and friends this year. I am…

    How to create 30 different interview and portrait lighting setups in less than 15 minutes
    Dec 6, 2021 John Aldred

    While understanding how light actually works is a much more reliable way to figure out how you’re going to light your subject, when you’re just…

    13 iPhone camera settings photographers need to know
    Dec 6, 2021 Jefferson Graham

    Common sense says you pick up the iPhone, open the camera app and just start shooting. That’ll work, but there happens to be so many…

    A Free Guide to Mobile Journalism Part 7 – Best mobile editing apps for smartphones
    Dec 2, 2021 Ivo Burum

    Synonymous with smartphone editing is a growing tendency to worship new apps and post on social media about the new features as quickly as possible….

    A Free Guide to Mobile Journalism Part 6 – Using smartphone audio to tell a story
    Dec 2, 2021 Ivo Burum

    In the TV business, we have a saying “waiting on sound” and no truer words have ever been spoken. Soundos are always doing something like…

    A Free Guide to Mobile Journalism Part 5 – Recording audio with smartphones
    Dec 2, 2021 Ivo Burum

    First and foremost, story rules and a story focus should always dictate the relevant technology and approach — mojo, or hybrid. Having said this, once…

    A Free Guide to Mobile Journalism Part 4 – Developing Mojo Stories
    Dec 2, 2021 Ivo Burum

    In 1993, while working in television, I taught select groups from our audiences to use small digital video (DV) cameras to tell their own personal…

    A Free Guide to Mobile Journalism Part 3 – The best sound and apps for a mobile workflow
    Dec 2, 2021 Ivo Burum

    Once you have decided whether your phone is mojo-friendly — enough speed, power, and memory — you might consider the following mojo tools.

    A Free Guide to Mobile Journalism Part 2 – New Smartphone or Old?
    Dec 2, 2021 Ivo Burum

    One of the first questions I’m asked during my training workshops is, “Can I do mojo on my phone?” “Not if you don’t have memory!”…