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If you've just started using a digital SLR or compact system camera and want to learn more about how to pick out the right lens to pair it with, the following how-to video tutorial is a good starting place. It's led by professional travel photographer Kerrick James and focuses on Pentax lenses but the information could...
We got a good response to last week's gear piece on a Victorian era pocket watch camera that looks anachronistic enough to be considered Steampunk, so here's a video in a similar vein. It's a behind-the-scenes clip from photographer David Honl on how to light and photograph portraits of models dressed up like Steampunk...
This photo essay is a few years old but it's a great how-to for anyone who has dreamed about having their own little darkroom right in their backyard.
Photographer Dave Miller didn't have a spare room in his house to convert into a darkroom so he decided to do "a garden makeover incorporating a shed."
At first, his...
One of the most challenging things with macro photography is getting a broad depth of field around your subject. Focus too closely on the foreground and the background is out of focus and vice versa.
A typical solution is to capture several images while moving the camera closer with each shot. You then combine all the...
Ottawa, Canada-based photographer Justin Van Leeuwen (right) has found success with a unique type of group photography he calls Extreme Families photo sessions. The technique involves compositing family members together into unique scenarios designed to reflect their true personalities and identities. As you can see from...
The new e-book "Wide-Angle Macro: The Essential Guide" is dedicated, detailed and delightful -- a far cry from your typical "how-to" photography book. The book is focused, pardon the pun, on just one thing: wide-angle, close-up shooting. Filled with solid technical information and lots of large illustrative photographs,...
We've seen GoPros put in many interesting places to shoot unique point-of-view footage, but this could be one of the best uses of these tough, portable cameras yet. Photographer Ben Horne (right) and his bride stashed a GoPro Hero2 inside her wedding bouquet, and captured fantastic, wide-angle HD footage of their big day...
Our friend Jeff Cable is featured in an interesting new educational video shot at the B&H Photo and Video Store in New York City. Jeff, who we know mainly as a sports photographer who wrote about how to pack a gear bag for the Olympics, discusses his passion for night photography in this seminar entitled: "Pixels After...
What's the best type of photography? Beer photography. Or at least that's how photographer Aaron Nace of Phlearn sees it in this photo tutorial on how to shoot a Heineken beer ad.
Though it may seem easy, Nace walks you through some of the tricky lighting set-ups you'll need to capture a thirst-enducing beer bottle...
It really was “a dark and a stormy night” as we drove through the English Midlands, in a cold, autumn rain. It was my first trip to the UK and I was loaded for photographs. However, with the morning, I could only stare at the BBC weather lady talking about at least a week of lousy weather.
My expectations for picture...
What separates great pictures from ordinary ones? It is the use of ambient light. Despite that, many people continue to shoot all their photos with their camera flashes blazing away.
Most of the time, that built-in flash in your phone or camera kills the natural light and is the ruin of otherwise decent photos. Certainly flash has its uses but it was never meant for every...
"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat." — Fran Lebowitz
Great photos are often found in unusual of places and that was the experience of Life magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt. For nearly 36 years, "Eisie" was for one of Life’s staff photographers. In 1938, he was sent to a West Virginia County Fair to...
I think the reasons we take travel photos are to remember where we were and to share those places with others. When we upload images to the web or make prints when we return home, we want our friends and families to see and enjoy the things we encountered.
However, just as there is a difference between tourists and travelers, the former flitting like bugs on the surface of...
Everyone loves taking pictures of their kids but, most of the time, child photos are pretty much the same types of snapshots again and again.
Have you ever wanted to be better at child photography and capture some cherished memories of your kids? While learning proper photo technique is part of the battle, much of it is just knowing when to shoot.
Of course, with everyone's...
Food makes us crazy and we love it. It even makes us crazier than photography.
The proof is that they are dozens of food channels and not one photography channel, not even on cable. If you carry a camera or a smartphone, when that plate of mouthwatering, super-sized food arrives in front of you, you are going to want to take a shot of it.
Thanks to the modern digital camera,...
What makes the difference between a so-so travel photo and a great image? Composition, that’s what.
Here are a few compositional tips to pump up your photography and help you to produce eye-popping scenic images and stunning travel shots.
Previously, I suggested four compositional tips about placing the horizon line in the frame to add interest to your photos. Choosing a...
We've shared photography tutorial videos with you recently on how to photograph a hamburger and how to shoot a steaming hot cup of coffee in the studio. Now, here's a how-to discussion on a completely different topic: The Basics of Nature Photography by National Geographic photographer Michael Melford.
In this seminar-style video, which was shot for the B&H Photo and Video...
On Friday, we shared a video on how to photograph a hot cup of coffee and now here are some great tips on how to photograph a hamburger courtesy of -- who else? -- McDonald's.
Though this video is more about food styling and Photoshopping than it is about photographic technique, it does give some good insight into what goes into making food more appetizing in photographs than...
If you visit any of the photo sharing sites such as Instagram or Flickr, you may find that eager photographers seem obsessed with one thing. No, not THAT thing; another more highly caffinated thing. Coffee, that is: blogging and tweeting about it and, above all, sharing photos of it.
Honestly, if we have to see one more close-up photo of the foam on top of a freshly brewed...
Rich Harrington and I discussed this the other day and I thought it would make a good post. There are many things that I learned about black & white photography back in the day when we used film: black-and-white film, that is. Some of them translate to digital and some don’t.
For those of you who want to work in black & white, here are a few tips.
1. Capture as much data as...
