This October, Martin Schoeller releases a new book spanning his career as a portrait photographer for some of the most... By Eugene Reznik | Published Sep 30, 2014 9:20 PM EDT SHARE Sean Comb

Dogs, breakfast and selfies still eat up a considerable amount of bandwidth in the Insta world. Tyson Wheatley Like it or not, there are 60 million new photos uploaded to Instagram every single day. If the iPhone changed digital photography when it was released in 2007—Instagram’s launch in 2010 rev

Newcomers to advanced lighting can be confounded by the way pros often describe strobe power settings. For instance, Ian Spanier, the New York-based portrait, advertising, and editorial photographer who shot this eye-catching portrait, says he set “the key light to f/10, the highlight to f/11, and t

The best images from our trek By Kevin Craft | Published Oct 6, 2013 8:00 AM EDT Visual Odyssey SHARE Reed Hoffmann Williams Photography OG Photo OG Photo David L. Amsler Reed Hoffmann

Motion can flummox even the most experienced still shooters. To get you started making great video with a DSLR or ILC, here are some essentials. Grasp them and you’ll soon film like a pro. Plan your shoot Making a video people want to watch starts before you pick up the camera. “Storybo

Brian Harkin is a full-time photojournalist who shoots for the likes of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His specialty, however is environmental portraiture. Dan: What exactly is an environmental portrait, how does it differ from a typical portrait? Brian: An environmental portrait, a

Glancing at this surreal landscape, you might think that it required hours of editing. But you would be wrong. Conjuring the magic of infrared imaging can be done with minimal assistance from a computer. Created in the camera during exposure, these special effects depend on capturing light waves tha

A renowned photographer with a 1.2‑million‑strong Instagram following shares his proven strategies for turning ordinary dog shots into memorable portraits. By Jeanette D. Moses | Published Oct 13, 2015 7:36 PM EDT We all know dogs bring joy into our lives, and they’re also natural models for photog

To see landscapes in a whole new light, shoot from a birds-eye view | Published Feb 19, 2015 10:34 AM EST Chad Copeland flew a FreeFly Cinestar Octocopter to shoot Emily Harrington climbing Moon Hill in Yangshuo, China. The camera was a Nikon Coolpix A;

Photographer Jason Bell shoots one of the UKs biggest celebrities in the woods By Stan Horaczek | Published Feb 19, 2015 10:34 PM EST SHARE Many behind-the-scenes videos end up completely dev

Ever wanted to take some high speed photos of flour flying through the air? By Tim Barribeau | Published Nov 11, 2013 9:01 PM EST SHARE PhotoExtremist has put together a very interesting tuto

How did you get started shooting mixed martial arts? I was big into Brazilian jiujitsu and muay thai, and I wanted to turn my camera onto what I loved. I started shooting portraits for fight posters and thought it would be fun to accompany one of my friends down to a fight in Mexico. I shot that fig

A classic set of portraits from a master of the craft By Stan Horaczek | Published Feb 25, 2015 12:19 AM EST SHARE It’s becoming a tradition for the talented Mark Seliger to do a pop-up portr

Lighting an athlete in the studio can be tricky By Peter Kolonia | Published Sep 4, 2014 9:55 AM EDT Quantz used a Nikon D700 and 24–70mm f/2.8G ED Nikkor lens, exposing for 1/160 sec at f/6.3, ISO 200 to capture this baseball player. Explore mor

If photography is writing with light, darkness is the punctuation. Darkness defines shapes, makes two dimensions look like three, and heightens drama. It can even be a subject in itself. Here are 10 ways to achieve dark victory. Nature photographer Marsel Van Oosten captured this wild brown bear at

Selling the gear in this video could easily buy you a small plane By Stan Horaczek | Published Nov 15, 2013 9:51 PM EST SHARE Little speedlites are awesome tools. They’re light, quick to set-

With the awe-inspiring grandeur of the Arenal Volcano ever-present, the Mentor SeriesCosta Rica Video Workshop offered participants a spectacular array of once-in-a-life-time experiences and the priceless opportunity to capture them in broadcast-quality videos with the latest Nikon HD-DSLRs. After a

Experts weigh in on how to perfect structural shooting By Dan Richards | Published Feb 27, 2015 9:18 PM EST Christopher Griffith captured this section of the Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower using his 4x5 Linhof Master Technika camera and a 90

Try analog special effects to give your images a look that digital cant equal By Laurence Chen | Published Nov 20, 2013 8:37 PM EST Sam Hurd SHARE In an age swimming in off-the-shelf digital s

Check out these posing tips from some of the country’s top portraitists By Peter Kolonia | Published Nov 21, 2013 1:46 AM EST SHARE Big family portraits are hard. Clothing and calendars need