The best gifts for the travel-obsessed photographer

Adorama Best Travel Drone DJI Mini SE Drone Check Price DJI’s smallest drone doesn’t require users to register with the FAA before flight—making it a great option for the aerial curious photographer or videographer. Best Camera Strap PeakDesign Slide Check Price An industry favorite, PeakDesign’s Slide strap has a secure anchor system that makes it… Continue reading The best gifts for the travel-obsessed photographer

How to Edit Video With LumaTouch for iPhone and iPad

LumaFusion is one of the most powerful NLEs for the iPhone and iPad available today. It’s packed with well-designed and thoughtful features that can turn your mobile into your editing powerhouse. That being said, it can be pretty overwhelming for new editors because of the high level of functionality. In this tutorial, we’ll cover some… Continue reading How to Edit Video With LumaTouch for iPhone and iPad

How to Get Started With Photivo

How to Get Started With Photivo What Is Photivo? Photivo is a free and open-source photo editor Photivo is a free and open-source photo editor that works across a variety of operating systems. Until quite recently, it hadn’t been updated for a good while, meaning newer camera formatted images were either not working, causing error… Continue reading How to Get Started With Photivo

On-Camera Audio Recording: Shotgun Microphones

If I had to choose one desert island microphone for video production, it would be a shotgun microphone. Is it the best at everything? No. But compared to a lavaliere, a pencil condenser, or a handheld microphone, it wins in many more situations. In this tutorial, you’ll find out why. What Is a Shotgun Microphone?… Continue reading On-Camera Audio Recording: Shotgun Microphones

How to Use Fisheye Lenses 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 fisheye lenses and see what they look like in action, as well as how to correct the curve if you prefer a straighter image. How… Continue reading How to Use Fisheye Lenses for Photography

Leica M11 sample photos: 60 megapixels sure looks good

Converted from DNG, vignetting reduced | ISO 64 | 1/500 sec | f/8. Jeff Keller The flagship Leica M11 rangefinder launched earlier this year boasting a host of upgrades, most notably, a higher-resolution sensor and a more powerful processor. And yet, the camera sports the same basic design as its ancestors, dating back to the… Continue reading Leica M11 sample photos: 60 megapixels sure looks good

Freeze! The week’s best reader-submitted still life photos

“A traditional still life of three pears exhibiting the interplay between light and shadow”. David Terao For this week’s reader challenge, we asked you to submit photos of the inanimate. And as always, you delivered. While some folks settled on more unusual subjects to photograph, the vast majority of you stuck with classic still life… Continue reading Freeze! The week’s best reader-submitted still life photos

Photography’s golden rules and when to break them

The fundamentals of photography composition are meant to be broken but first, you must grasp them. Stan Horaczek Photography has a lot of rules that are really just principles. Most of them are useful guidelines worth understanding, not edicts to be followed to the letter. In this photography fundamentals series, we’re going to look at… Continue reading Photography’s golden rules and when to break them