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When you are out photographing landscapes, it's very easy to get a sense of scale. After all, you're there, taking it all in. How do you convey the grand scale to a person who will only see your two-dimensional representation of the scene?

Photographer Nigel Danson recommends trying to include a person in your...

 

 

There are times when I think an image will look really good when converted to black and white. In Anthony Morganti's newest video, he tries to address the topic. How can you know when an image will look better in black and white?

One of the more effective ways to identify a potentially good black and white image...

 

 

Armed with his Nikon D850 and array of Nikon zoom lenses, photographer Adam Gibbs headed to Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island for some rugged landscape photography.

The area is characterized by its small cascades, creeks and old growth forest. In typical form, Gibbs' video below also features some...

 

 

Adam Karnacz of First Man Photography was out for some photography when he was faced with a unique and spectacular moment. Sometimes when you're in the field, unexpected and wonderful things happen and you've got to forget your original plan and just do your best to capture the scene.

To help prepare yourself for...

 

 

When you see professional photographers doing portrait shoots with multiple lights, it can seem like it's all very complicated. If you're a beginner, it can be daunting. However, it doesn't have to be difficult to get a nice, effective lighting setup. In her latest video, Jessica Kobeissi is joined by photographer...

 

 

It can be very challenging to remove or change the background of an image, but it can definitely be done thanks to the power of Photoshop. In the video below, Aaron Nace of Phlearn offers a free excerpt from a paid tutorial focused on changing and removing backgrounds from difficult photos.

In the excerpt below,...

 

 

Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens is in Houston helping fellow photographer Melvyn McKiever build a home photo studio. Morgan immediately goes to work identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses of the room Melvyn wants to convert. If you're building your own home studio, you will want at least some of the walls...

 

 

This week's Firmware Friday roundup is a biggie, bringing news of firmware and software updates from no less than seven manufacturers in all. If you're shooting Canon, Fujifilm, Leica, Olympus, Panasonic, Ricoh or Sony gear, you'll want to read on for the full story below to find out what's new. Since there's...

 

 

Lensrentals founder Roger Cicala has been testing lenses for nearly a decade and his methodology has continually improved not only in efficiency, but more importantly, in accuracy. There are numerous ways to test lenses and there are advantages and disadvantages to different methods. More accuracy typically comes...

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Though the Panasonic Lumix G9 is most certainly a stills camera first, it nevertheless offers many video features that you won't often find on more touted hybrid cameras from the likes of Sony or Canon. So while cameras like the A7 III or the 5D Mark...

 

 

When shooting interiors in particular, you will regularly face the issue of mixed lighting. When you are shooting with mixed lighting sources, all with their own particular color temperatures, how can you fix the white balance of the shot? Blake Rudis of f64 Academy has a new video covering this topic and how you...

 

 

While the title of their latest Picture This! video, "Why your photos suck," is inflammatory, Tony and Chelsea Northrup have some great tips for how to improve your photos. The focus of the video is on 10 things you might be doing that make your photos worse and how you can easily and quickly improve.

The first...

 

 

As we saw earlier this week, travel photographer and educator Thomas Heaton is running a photography workshop in Iceland. Last time we joined him along the coast and today, we're along for the ride in the Icelandic highlands.

The location is particularly interesting because it's a place Heaton visited a year ago,...

 

 

Bird photographer Tim Boyer wants to help you improve your bird photography. To this end, he has created a new video highlighting five ways you can improve your bird shots.

While the tips are presented in the context of bird photography, they do apply to other genres of photography as well. His first tip is a...

 

 

Danish photographer Mads Peter Iversen spends a lot of time in Iceland during a recent visit to the famous church, Strandarkirkja, Iversen had planned to create a minimalist image. How do you approach minimalist landscape photography and what are some of Iversen's tips and tricks?

When trying to compose a simple...

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We knew it was coming, and now it's finally here: say hello to the Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 G Master lens. The next member of Sony's top-tier G Master full-frame mirrorless lens family, this professional-class supertelephoto is a critical optic for the Sony...

 

 

Continuing his four-part series on basic lighting, photographer Mark Wallace's latest video for Exploring Photography is about low-key lighting for portraiture. Specifically, the video is about creating a low-key portrait using a single off-camera light.

To achieve the desired effect, Wallace shows how to...

 

 

You typically shoot with your lens attached to your camera, right? What happens when you shoot through a lens detached from the camera? In the latest episode of Two Minute Tips with David Bergman, he explores the topic of "freelensing."

Using a Canon 5D Mark IV with a Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens, Bergman tries using...

 

 

There are lenses which are traditionally considered to be "portrait lenses," such as fast 50mm, 85mm and 105mm primes. There are, of course, many other lenses you can use to capture nice portraits, such as 24-70mm and 70-200mm f/2.8 zooms. Tony and Chelsea Northrup decided to do a portrait shoot with a very...