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Understanding Metering, Part Two: What To Use, When By Ming Thein
This is part two of Ming Thein‘s series on Understanding Metering. In part one we examined why metering is important, and how the basics of…
The Three Rules Of Creating Great Bokeh
Bokeh, as you must know by now if you are a regular reader is a Japanese word that means blur. In photography the quality of…
Use Lego To Keep Your Lens Cap Safe
If someone made a survey and checked to see what is the one piece of equipment you loose most, I am willing to place dollars…
Pictures Of Water Drops Doing Their Thing
If you ever thought that water drops are polite beings, just waiting for us to set up a strobe and take their picture, you could…
A Portable DIY Travel Jib / Shoulder Rig
When I get asked what’s the first thing an HD shooter should get to boost production value, I usually say a slider. But things are…
How To Build A Spherical Panoramic (360) Head
With software like PTgui and Adobe’s built in CS6 photomerge stitching of almost any sequence of semi-overlapping photos into a panorama is a no brainer….
Fitting A Modern Camera With An Old-School Flashbulb
Swedish photographer Sven Hedin was not happy with the flash his the Nikon 1 V1. specifically the proprietary hotshoe mount (and he is not the…
Landscapes V3 Is One Heck Of An Epic Timelapse
This blog has seen its share of time lapse movies. But this time lapse caught us completely unprepared. Dustin Farrell skipped his work here and…
How To Create A Wall Of Fire
When Barry Elder first approached me with this tutorial I have to admit that I was kinda scared to put it online. I mean, it…
Beautiful Time Lapse Of Blooming Flowers
Photographer Katka Pruskova spent countless hours (over 730) to piece together an amazing timelapse showing how flowers bloom. The movie features a variety of flowers…






































