How to become a better photographer through ‘visual exercise’
As photographers it’s very easy to fall down the deep, dark hole of gear lust; or to get lost in reams of techy info, thinking these things will make us better photographers. They may help you learn how to use the tools, but in the same way as owning a paint brush doesn’t make you an artist, becoming a great photographer is about so much more.
Godox V1: The Affordable Round-Head Flash
The Godox round head speedlight, first teased during Photokina 2018 is finally a real, finished, final product. Now it has an official name, too, the Godox V1. And it’s coming a month or two sooner than expected.
How To Find Out The Highest ISO You Can Use?
Do you know the limits of your camera’s ISO?
By limit, I mean the point at which, egads!, it’s just too much noise. If not, or if you’ve never bothered to figure out your camera’s limits, I have an easy experiment for you to try.
The Hidden Colors of The Moon Revealed with 150K Photos
Sacramento-based astrophotography enthusiast Andrew McCarthy extracted color data from 150,000 photos of the moon to create this enhanced photo showing all the different splashes of color on the surface left by impacts of different minerals.
Canon Unveils RAISE, An AI-Powered Photo Sharing Service
Canon USA has launched RAISE, its first online photo community. The platform offers photographers a destination for storing their images, which are organized using Canon’s artificial intelligence engine. Users have the option to create Collections for privately sharing images with others outside of the community, and they can browse other users’ images via a personalized feed.
How To Connect Canon T6i WiFi to Smartphone And Canon Connect App
Canon Camera Connect is a free application which enables users to transfer images shot with Canon digital cameras (see below for compatible models) to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch via Wi-Fi and share these images in simple steps.
How To Create Flying Food Photos
Ever wondered how to create levitation photography? Quickly learn how to make flying food photos and freeze time and space.
Food photographer Skyler Burt of We Eat Together made this 5.5-minute tutorial on one way to freeze time and space.
World first “CANIKON”autofocus adapter from KIPON
Want to use your Canon EF-mount lenses on a Nikon camera… with autofocus? That will soon be possible. KIPON has announced the world’s first “CANIKON” lens adapter.
While Canon-to-Nikon and Nikon-to-Canon lens adapters already exist, none of them allow you to use autofocus — in other words, any adapted lens is turned into a manual-focus-only lens.
How Self-Taught Photographer Gordon Parks Became a Master Storyteller
Gordon Parks was an American photographer best known for documenting African Americans, civil rights, and poverty in the mid-1900s. PBS NewsHour just aired this 6-minute segment that looks into how the self-taught photographer used his camera as a tool to help share people’s stories with the world.
“Parks came to an understanding before he ever picked up a camera that it could be a tool for him to use to be able to express his own feelings about his life,” says Philip Brookman, curator of the current exhibition “Gordon Parks: The New Tide” at the National Gallery of Art.
COMPOSITION – Most Important thing in PHOTOGRAPHY!
Composition is the main challenge in Photography. Composing an image means arranging elements within it in a way that suits the core idea of your work best.
A good composition can help make a masterpiece even out of the dullest objects and subjects in the plainest of environments. On the other hand, a bad composition can ruin a photograph completely, despite how interesting the subject may be.
This video will help you to understand composition and also how can you improve your composition to click better photographs. Initially it will be difficult to compose the photographs but gradually the process becomes easier and fun. Keep shooting and produce better photographs.
