I love photographing animals. It’s great fun and they often come with a lot of personality, especially dogs. And who doesn’t have a dog or know somebody with a dog you can play with? If you’ve never tried photographing dogs before, though, it can be a bit of a learning curve. But to make life easier, here’s photographer Phil Harris with 10 tips in 100 seconds to get your creative juices flowing.
5 surf & underwater photography hacks and tricks in under a minute
If you’ve ever taken a camera near water, whether it be a DSLR or a GoPro, you know it can be a hassle. Even when you’ve got all the underwater housings and other bits, it can still be a pain. In this video, surf photographer Dylan Brayshaw gives us 5 great tips for shooting in and around water.
This hack lets you shoot the Hyperlapse app at 1080p (+3 more hacks)
I love hyperlapses, and I was really into the Hyperlapse app for iOS when Instagram first released it. But, it always annoyed me that it would only shoot 720p footage. There aren’t exactly many options within the app itself besides the playback speed. Now, this is probably a hack that the rest of the world have known about for years already, but it’s new to me.
And along with this tip, photographer Matthew Rycroft brings along three more. One is a similar hack for Instagram’s Boomerang app which opens up some cool creative possibilities. There’s also a blacklight hack, and a 3D hologram thingy.
Three tips to never lose your lens caps again
Lens caps are probably the thing I used to lose the most often, until I quit bothering replacing them. If I have none to lose, then I can’t lose them, problem solved. Sometimes, though, having lens caps saves a lot of hassle. Lenses that I use often are regularly cleaned. But, for lenses that end up sitting on the shelf unused for several months, cleaning dust out of the front element can be a pain. So, I do still keep a few handy.
But if you want to stop losing your lens caps in the first place, what can you do? Well, this video from the guys at The Film Look on YouTube offers three tips to help make your lens caps more visible, organised, and easy to temporarily store while shooting without losing.
28 tips, tricks and hacks for Photoshop CC
Normally, tutorial videos cover one or two tips to work on, but in this video from YouTuber TutVid, we get a glimpse at 28 different Photoshop CC tips, tricks and hacks.
Considering there are 28 of them, there’s a good chance you know them. But even if you know a dozen, that leaves 14 tips available for you to pick up on.
8 DIY Smartphone Photography Hacks For More Creative Photos
Hacking is what we (and, indubitably, Anonymous) live for. So when photographer Richard Schabetsberger releases videos like this, we get all giddy with excitement. From aerial photography to creative selfies, Richard shares with us eight hacks to get better results and more creatively-dynamic images from your smartphone.
Old Nintendo Power Glove Modified To Control Stop Motion Photography Software Wirelessly
I have to admit, my heart skipped a beat when I first read about this hack and if I’m being completely candid, they had me Nintendo Power Glove. I mean, a camera controlling cyborg arm? Yes, please. Where do I sign up? And not only does this cyborg arm look awesome, it’s also a really useful, efficient way to tackle the tedious task of stop motion photography.
Dillon Markey, an animator for Robot Chicken and PES, had the genius notion to hack an old relic from his past to make his life as a stop motion photographer and animator a whole lot easier. Markey explained he was tired of having to lug a USB wired keyboard around with him while shooting just as much as he was frustrated by having to frequently walk back and forth between the set and his computer/camera setup just to take a single frame. After spending some time brainstorming a possible solution to the problem, he knew the Power Glove, and it’s futuristic aesthetic, was exactly what he wanted.
8 Hacks From A Travel Photographer To Help Lighten Your Load And Save You Money
Camera gear is expensive, sometimes heavy, and usually bulky. For the travel photographer who is working on a travel photographer’s budget, those three things can really get in the way of things. Luckily, these eight tips from professional travel photographer, Brendan van Son, will give you some options to help you workaround the roadblocks. As Brendan explains in the video, some of the hacks may not give you the finest results possible, but they are still solid alternatives that will save you money or at least help you travel a little lighter. And Brendan knows what he’s talking about. In about 5 years time, he’s photographed over 80 countries on 6 different continents and his work has been featured in many international publications.
$7 DIY Diffusion Hack And Bonus Color Grading Tutorial All In Less Than 10 Minutes
Film Riot is awesome. Where else can you go to learn how to make the world’s easiest DIY diffusion and get a free bonus lesson in color grading? We have them to thank for putting out this video clip that shows us how to save money by using a cheap shower curtain to diffuse lights for perfect lighting. And if that weren’t enough, they also let us join them for a walk through of their color grading workflow.
Quick DIY Hack To Help You Keep Your Cameras Safe And Sound In Precarious Shooting Conditions
Scared your camera mount is going to fail you in the midst of a photoshoot, sending it into a fatal introduction with the ground? Concerned about a fox relocating your GoPro to an undisclosed location? This quick and easy hack can give you an added level of assurance. You can make a nice tether for your GoPro (or any piece of gear) that you can use to quickly tie the camera down with, giving you an added level of assurance, by following the simple steps of this hack.
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