Photo How To

When it comes to camera bragging rights, what makes you most proud? My guess: pixel count. In a world where mobile phones can make shots good enough for billboards, nothing seems to make you feel better about yourself than to flog your camera’s megapixel horsepower.

Lightroom plugins are valuable software add-ons that expand creativity during the editing process with easy to use features for a variety of effects. They're readily available, some for free and other at a nominal cost, and they can add impact to images while speeding up your workflow.

Sometimes you take a photograph and while the main subject looks great, the background is really weak. The solution is to simply place your subject against a more interesting background, right? Well, not so fast.

If you’ve read our choices for the 10 Best Vintage SLR Lenses for Your DSLR, you’re also going to want to read our simple guide below with tips on how to mount those lovely, classic pieces of glass on your modern digital SLR.

One of the key starting points for capturing great images is exposing a scene properly. And that holds true whether you’re photographing portraits, outdoor sports events, landscapes, indoor concerts, or other types of photos.

It happens every year, and we're not referring to the onset of spring for all you baseball fans. Rather, the tutorial below  from the Park Cameras YouTube channel, addresses how to capture great landscape images during the bleak days of winter.

The below video from Red Bull Illume just might take your breath away. The short, hair-raising clip documents how photographer (and skydiver) Wolfgang Lienbacher created a series of stunningly beautiful images of the Red Bull Skydive team in action while in a freefall himself.