Last week, I took some macro photos and videos at Pelican Island Wildlife Refuge in Florida, one of my favorite places in the world for close-up photography. In the video I filmed, I’ve explained in detail how to master lighting in macro photography.
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Nikon Z 24mm f/1.8 S Review
Introduction Nikon introduced the wide-angle NIKKOR Z 24mm f/1.8 S in September of 2019 for its mirrorless Z mount. At the time of the announcement, it was the widest professional-grade prime lens for the system, although Nikon followed up with the Z 20mm f/1.8 S announcement just five months later....
Nikon Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Review
The word "superzoom" doesn't always conjure pleasant images in a photographer's mind. Historically, a lot of superzooms are low-end lenses with bad image quality and even worse construction. The $900 Nikon Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR aims to change that impression. Does it succeed? It's complicated. While the Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3...
15 Tips to Improve Your Photography
For this week’s video, I’ve compiled several of my favorite tips to help photographers take better pictures. I made sure to focus on the basics, but there’s plenty of good information here regardless of your skill level.
Attempting Realistic Tabletop Landscape Photography
This is one of the more unusual videos I’ve made so far, but I might just be happier with it than any other I’ve done. My goal was pretty simple: to take a realistic “landscape” photo on my kitchen table.
A System to Pick the Right Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO
In this week’s video, I’m covering a topic I’ve wanted to write about for a while, but couldn’t find a good way to put to paper. Ultimately, I think it works much better as a demonstration format instead.
Photographing the 10 Elements of Composition
For this week’s video, which I published a couple days ago on Youtube, I went to Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado in an attempt to photograph the ten elements of composition in 24 hours.
Understanding Shutter Speed
For today’s video, I’m revisiting one of the most critical camera settings out there: shutter speed. So much of photography builds off shutter speed (and exposure generally) that I wanted to publish this one before diving into deeper topics.
Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S Announcement
Amid a series of announcements late last night, Nikon just officially announced the 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S for its Nikon Z cameras. The new lens is expected to start shipping in February.
New Year, New Youtube Videos
I’m happy to kick off the 2020s at Photography Life by announcing a new weekly series of Youtube videos, including one I’ve published today. This video covers a bunch of ways to take better photos with any camera.