Simple lighting setups to help with your portraits

Ever wonder how those looks were achieved and wanted to do them for yourself. Well the people over at Digital Camera World came out with the diagram below showing some great setups for your next portrait session.

How and why to use a polarizing filter

Ever wonder what a polarizing filter was for or have used one, but had no clue what it was really doing. I didn't really understand a polarizing filter or how many functions it really had. Short video gives you a few different uses for one.…

Research hyperlapse sending love to Paris

Researching some hyperlapse techniques and landed on this pretty video of Paris. Here is a good tutorial I found to make some quick and easy hyperlapse videos without too much equipment and super non intrusive approach. All of this is…

Fun 360 music video put on the VR goggles or use your mouse

Fun way to shoot a music video that was probably shot with the gopro 360 rig. So much to look at and absorb, but also reminds me of those cheesy VR things or point and shoot games from the 90s. Either way it is becoming easier to produce…

Applying the theories of classical art to photography

In my free time I love attending galleries of all sorts and observing the different styles that various artists have created. We also through a pop up art auction locally to celebrate local artists and there innovations. Every artist will…

Breakfast with Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan gives us a look into how he made his film Following. It is nice to hear that he came from working in commercials and interview videos which kind of paved the way for him into creating his feature every weekend piece by…

Is This Art Photography Any Good?

Is This Art Photography Any Good? - Take it or Leave it with Bruce Gilden If you like someone critiquing other people's work you will definitely like this. Bruce Gilden presents some great points and give lots of his own incites from over…

Camera technology then and now with Jean-Claude Van Damme

As you can see not a lot of the technology has really changed other than it becoming more affordable and smaller. Maybe we do things a little differently, but still most of the tech that they used to shoot that is pretty much the same. Either…

The art of close-ups in film

Close-ups can be terrible or amazing depending on where are using them. I see it used numerous times in TV and movies, but they are used so literally that the context is completely lost. The best use that I have seen so far in TV is the…