How Super Zoom Lenses Work and How to Choose One for Photography

If you’re a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In this lesson, you’ll learn about super zooms and find out what you need to know about using one. What Is a Super Zoom? Long lens / Envato Elements If you… Continue reading How Super Zoom Lenses Work and How to Choose One for Photography

Fancy Photo Lenses: Do You Really Need Stabilisation, Coatings, and Focusing Motors?

If you’re a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In this lesson, you’ll learn all about ultra-fast focusing motors, fancy lens coatings, and image stabilisation—and whether you really need them! Fancy Photo Lenses: Do You Really Need Stabilisation, Coatings, and… Continue reading Fancy Photo Lenses: Do You Really Need Stabilisation, Coatings, and Focusing Motors?

Using the magic of reflections to elevate your photography

In Namibia, Marsel van Oosten captures the mirror image of a springbok, pausing to drink at a watering hole in the afternoon light. On a snowy morning on Lake Kawaguchiko, Loic Lagarde captures the perfect reflection of Mount Fuji in the still water. And at Germany’s Rakotzbrücke Devil’s Bridge, Kilian Schonberger photographs a fairytale setting… Continue reading Using the magic of reflections to elevate your photography

See the tempestuous finalists of the Weather Photographer of the Year Awards

“Inside a cumulonimbus cloud, particles of rain, snow or ice move up and down, colliding and causing an imbalance in the electrical charge. Cloud-to-ground lightning, as seen in this image, happens when a channel of negative charge zigzags downward in a ‘forked pattern’. This is usually invisible to the human eye and travels to the… Continue reading See the tempestuous finalists of the Weather Photographer of the Year Awards

Photojournalist Susan Meiselas: How to be in the right place at the right time

“Tentful of Marks.” USA. Tunbridge, Vermont. 1974. (CARNIVAL STRIPPERS, page 82). ©Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos In June, Susan Meiselas received the PHotoEspaña 2022 Award for her career as a documentary photographer covering cultural hotspots including Nicaragua and Kurdistan. As part of the Per Amor l’Art Collection, her series Carnival Strippers commands its own room at Círculo… Continue reading Photojournalist Susan Meiselas: How to be in the right place at the right time

New England Guide: Best Things to Do in Cape Cod & Martha’s Vineyard

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”― Jo Walton New England Guide Relax your shoulders, close your eyes and fill your lungs with that refreshing, salty sea air… the Cape in Massachusetts is home to some of the country’s best beaches and is a… Continue reading New England Guide: Best Things to Do in Cape Cod & Martha’s Vineyard

How to Use After Effects for Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text

What You’ll Be Creating In this lesson you’re going to learn how to do some basic motion tracking to add text to a shot.  To follow along with this lesson, make sure to open up the motion tracking.aep file which you can download here. You’re also going to need the video file below, which you… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Basic Motion Tracking, Camera Tracking, and Text

How to Build a Basic Photo Post-Processing Workflow With Adobe Camera Raw

Photographing in RAW format gives you the best options for your post-processing as it’s retaining all the information from when you took the image. Due to that, though, RAW files have a large file size and look a little flat, so they might require a little more ‘post-shoot’ thought than some other formats. Here, we’ll… Continue reading How to Build a Basic Photo Post-Processing Workflow With Adobe Camera Raw

OBS Quick Start: How to Create Live Video for Free With Open Broadcaster Software Studio

Open Broadcaster Software Studio (OBS Studio, or often just OBS) is an open-source program that is a fast way to get into live video streaming. Plus OBS Studio is free.  Streaming Software When you live stream, you need either a software or hardware encoder to convert your audio and video into a format that can… Continue reading OBS Quick Start: How to Create Live Video for Free With Open Broadcaster Software Studio