This pro shares her experience and insights on the night By Peter Kolonia | Published Aug 20, 2015 9:52 AM EDT SHARE Because night scenes are often mono-chromatic by nature, a spot of color c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_lJ_wH4pMM// I love when photographers use really elaborate or wacky lighting scenarios, so when I heard about a photographer shooting a plane with a collection of 30 strobes, I was immediately sold already. The photographers name is Dan Vojtěch and he was shooting a

Idaho’s Sun Valley shines during the winter months By Jeff Wignall | Published Jan 6, 2014 6:46 AM EST Tory Taglio shot this night view of Ketchum, ID, Sun Valleys hub, with a tripod-mounted Nikon D700 and 24–70mm f/2.8 Nikkor zoom at 2.5 sec, f/10 and ISO 250. SHARE

A photo series that captures the essence of summer By Jeanette D. Moses | Published Jul 24, 2014 5:30 PM EDT SHARE summerslide Photo: Krista Long Nothing says summer quite like

Ramble its byways, camera in hand By Jeff Wignall | Published Jul 22, 2014 7:50 PM EDT Kurt Budliger shot this classic Vermont barn near Montpelier, with the setting sun illuminating mammatus clouds beyond, using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and 16–35m

An old doorway at Hotel Santa Clara, Cartagena, Colombia © Christopher Testani A serving of shrimp © Christopher Testani A scene on the beach in Cartagena © Christopher Testani A serving of lobster at Islas de Rosarios © Christopher Testani For Christopher Testani, the road to success in travel phot

Photograph light in a unique way By Peter Kolonia | Published Jan 8, 2014 9:11 PM EST Leonardo Misuraca used his iPhone 4s program mode and spotmeter to capture this shot at 1/125 sec at f/2.8, ISO 100. SHARE Last Augu

S.I. Dixon, an Australian school teacher by day and part-time portraitist most other times, is drawn to “less-than-mainstream subjects,” he says. Burlesque dancers, roller derby skaters, and, as in the portrait here, ink aficionados are his typical quarry. To document them, he uses a lighting style

In Aschaffenburg, Germany, a Bavarian town 30 minutes outside of Frankfurt, snow doesn’t fall all that often. So when he saw the white stuff coming down a few years ago, pro photographer Alex Heinrichs grabbed his camera, location lights, and his favorite model, and dashed outdoors to shoot. He had

For more than six decades, photographer Rich Clarkson has been the definitive visual chronicler of college basketball’s biggest tournament, the NCAA Final Four. As the official NCAA photographer since the 1950s, Clarkson has spent his career behind the camera, documenting the drama of March Madness

For two solid weeks in 2012, Taka Kawachi, a product specialist who works out of a studio in Nyack, NY, shot nothing but glassware for a major department store chain. Juice, highball, and shot glasses, tumblers, stemware of every size and shape, and, yes, pilsner glasses and beer mugs. If he wasn’t

You dont need underwater housing gear to capture the creatures of the sea. By Peter Kolonia | Published Feb 13, 2013 11:47 PM EST The images that comprise this composite were all exposed for 1/60 sec at f/6.8 on Kodak Portra 400, metered at ISO 2

Treat yo’self by educating yo’self. By Harry Guinness | Updated Oct 4, 2021 5:45 AM EDT Put your glasses on—its learning time. GaudiLab via Depositphotos SHARE There’s a lot wrong with the int

Where would you travel with your camera given time and budget? By Stan Horaczek | Updated Oct 4, 2021 5:51 AM EDT SHARE This is not my dream photography location. This is New Jersey. This tim

Selfies don’t have to suck. Priscilla Du Preez via Unsplash Selfies show up everywhere on social media. After all, why snap a scenic view, major landmark, or gang of friends if you can’t feature your face alongside them? Sometimes you’re recording a precious moment for posterity; sometimes you just

Top pet shooter on how to capture the amazing expressiveness of the canine world By Peter Kolonia | Updated Nov 13, 2021 3:02 PM EST For a national ad, Parker placed Piggy, an English bulldog model, on her back; the pup held the pose for several

With just a standard inkjet printer, and a few common extras, you can put your images onto wood By Tim Barribeau | Updated Dec 8, 2021 10:43 AM EST SHARE Printing photographs onto wood is har

In the age of AI-powered smartphone cameras and editing software, whos really in control of composition, the algorithm or the photographer? Our third Smarter Image column has answers. By Jeff Carlson | Updated Jan 27, 2022 2:56 AM EST AI cant phy

Taking photos of your home that you’re proud of enough to share on Instagram can be a daunting task. Making an indoor scene look dreamily drool-worthy takes a special balance of focal length, composition, and exposure. Oakland, California-based photographer Vivian Johnson has some tips gleaned from

Ten wedding pros share their tips and techniques for capturing the holy grail of wedding photography: raw human emotion. By Peter Kolonia | Updated May 24, 2022 9:49 AM EDT Getty Images SHARE