$4000 in prizes to be won this World Photography Day

Hey Photographers! This one’s for you. No matter where you live or what your skill set is you’ll have a chance to win one of seven amazing prizes this World Photography Day (or month as we’re calling it). Starting today and running until September 17, you can submit your photos to “Around the World in… Continue reading $4000 in prizes to be won this World Photography Day

How to Use After Effects for Advanced Motion Tracking

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we are going to pick up right where we left off in the last tutorial talking about basic motion tracking. Today, you’ll learn how to apply that motion tracking data to an object. You’ll learn how to attach some text to the object we worked with in the… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Advanced Motion Tracking

How to score an awesome garage sale camera

Not quite sure what I was thinking when I pulled the trigger on this beauty. Stan Horaczek This post on garage sale cameras has been updated. It was originally published on May 17, 2016. As you walk through a local garage sale, your eyes bounce from a pile of ugly jackets to a bin full… Continue reading How to score an awesome garage sale camera

Hubble’s latest: colorful cloudscapes of the Orion Nebula

The image is one of 520 that make up a larger composite photo of the entire nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally; Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç With all the hubbub surrounding the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) it’s easy to forget about NASA’s other eye in the sky, Hubble, which is still capable of producing… Continue reading Hubble’s latest: colorful cloudscapes of the Orion Nebula

How to manage your creative budget

Late last year, a survey from Upwork revealed that 59 million Americans performed freelance work in 2021, with more than half (56%) of non-freelancers saying that they’re likely to do so in the future. For creative professionals like photographers, freelancing offers its fair share of perks: you get to be your own boss, set your… Continue reading How to manage your creative budget