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Photographer’s Guide to Light: Noticing Direct Reflections

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson, you will learn about direct reflections and see how they work in lighting and photography. Direct Reflections Direct reflection — also known as specular reflection — is the… Continue reading Photographer’s Guide to Light: Noticing Direct Reflections

Manual Exposure: How to Use Aperture, Shutter, and ISO to Make a Studio Photo

Welcome back to our Introduction to Flash Photography series. Before we launch into talking about flash, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page when it comes to exposure. All of our instructions about studio photography in this series are based on the understanding that your camera will be in manual mode, where you… Continue reading Manual Exposure: How to Use Aperture, Shutter, and ISO to Make a Studio Photo

How to Easily Mask Out a Video Without Greenscreens Using RunwayML, in Your Browser

If I asked most video editors to rotoscope a clip that wasn’t filmed on a green/blue screen they could do it, but not without being reluctant. That’s because, even with the recent updates to After Effects’ rotoscoping tool, it can be pretty tedious (plus not all of us use Adobe to edit). In this tutorial… Continue reading How to Easily Mask Out a Video Without Greenscreens Using RunwayML, in Your Browser

How to Make Colour Keys for Animation Scenes and Projects

Colour Keys are used in animation to help establish the look and feel of the background as well as the overall colour of the scene. Essentially they are background paintings that lighting, layout and other departments in the studio use as reference during production. Colour key artists help set the mood of the scene by… Continue reading How to Make Colour Keys for Animation Scenes and Projects

A Photographer’s Guide to Contrast — How to See Light and Shadow

If you’d like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer’s Guide to Light. In this lesson, you’ll find out what exactly contrast is, and how it works. A Photographer’s Guide to Light: Contrast The world looks a lot different on a clear, sunny day… Continue reading A Photographer’s Guide to Contrast — How to See Light and Shadow

Is Sony REALLY #1 in Cameras? Yes, it matters.

Sony recently announced that they were the #1 camera manufacturer, above Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Olympus, and Panasonic in several important segments… But their data tells only part of the story. Tony Northrup digs into WHY this is very important (something photographers using Pentax can totally relate to). He then analyzes several data sources, including BCN,… Continue reading Is Sony REALLY #1 in Cameras? Yes, it matters.