Photography “hacks” videos are great fun because they help you shoot unique, attention-getting photos using ordinary household items. In the below video from Jessica Kobeissi, her five hacks involve using something you see all the time: glass.
Adjusting the ISO depending on the level of light in scene is one of the first things you may have learned when using your digital camera. But what if there was a way for the camera to adjust the ISO on its own?
Black-and-white photography is still incredibly popular and with good reason. There’s just something about a classic, black-and-white image that catches the eye.
It would be easy to categorize Jordan Matter as a dance photographer—he has published three books of his dance images—or as a portrait photographer—it was what he did before turning to dance, and he still includes it in his repertoire.
A lost World War II-era photo album has finally made its way home thanks to some sleuthing by collector and archivist Christoph Traugott Coulter. The album contains photos of then Captain Clarence V. Ward during his time in occupied Japan after World War II.
It’s the age-old question that typically comes from non-photographers: does an expensive camera shoot better photos? As anyone who knows anything about photography will tell you: it’s the photographer, not the gear that’s the key to great photos!
It’s now widely appreciated that many great old lenses of the analog era can capture images that have that elusive quality known as character. Writers of the early 20th century tried to express these qualities by describing them as “rounded” “luminous” or “plastic” rendition, but later writers and scientists dismissed such terms as imprecise and speculative, turning to resolution and later MTF testing to quantify lens performance parameters.
If you know the basics of Photoshop, then you’re probably familiar with a rather remarkable feature called Content-Aware Fill. In short, this Adobe software tool lets you remove distracting objects from your photos – such as wires or telephone polls – and replace (fill) them with a seemingly natural background that blends in with the scene.
In the below video tutorial, the folks at COOPH team up with German photographer Philipp Reinhard to show you how to shoot and edit striking multiple exposure photos.
Here are two new compact cameras you might want to bring on your next safari vacation: the 35x zoom (24-840mm equivalent) Nikon Coolpix A1000 and 60x (24-1440mm) Nikon Coolpix B600 compact zoom cameras.