What if the most interesting subjects to photograph aren’t subjects at all - or, at least, not ones you can recognize easily? I’m referring to abstract photography, the “grand unifying genre” of photography, relevant to everything from landscapes to portraiture. Sometimes, taking an abstract photo is the best way to...
Photography Techniques Category Archive - Page 8
Guide to Motion Blur and Panning in Photography
In photography, conveying motion is one of the most challenging tasks due to the very nature of a stills photograph. You are essentially freezing a specific moment in time rather than capturing the whole of the sequence from which this moment originates. When set to fast shutter speeds, our cameras...
Photography Case Studies
In this article, we will present you a list of different case studies that our readers and our team have submitted over the years. Through these case studies, we hope that our readers will have a chance to learn how to deal with specific issues related to camera gear, post-processing...
How to Take Better Photos at Night
How does one take better photos at night? Creating technically excellent images at night can be a challenge, especially for novice photographers who may rely on automatic camera settings to get the shot. During the day, there is usually an abundance of light which makes it easy to take a...
How to Increase the Resolution of an Image
Photographers love chasing after image quality, including maximum sharpness, detail, and resolution. Most likely, you’ve wondered at some point how to take higher-resolution photos, or increase the resolution of images you already have (whether photographs or digital illustrations). This article explains step-by-step how to increase resolution quickly and easily in...
Visual Storytelling in Portraiture
If you feel that your portraits lack the "wow" factor or that your viewers don’t feel the excitement you felt while making the image, then you might be just showing a situation rather than telling a story. Showing something that happened might do the job for a news photographer. But...
Going Lightweight for Photography Expeditions
It’s the middle of the night and still bright outside. I’m in Iceland a few weeks after the summer solstice, and I just finished the longest hike of my life - a nine-day version of the Laugavegur. I'll have several photos and articles to publish now that it's done, including...
11 Cityscape Photography Tips for Beginners
Roughly 80% of people in the United States live in metropolitan areas. This means that cityscape photography is one of the most accessible genres of photography. The shapes and intricate details seen in city skylines are attractive to humans because our brains recognize and think in terms of patterns. However,...
Five Advanced Landscape Photography Tips
Often, landscape photography tips are meant for people who are just starting out and trying to get the hang of things. That's great in many ways, but it does carry a problem - it says to advanced photographers that there is nothing new to discover. But landscape photography is incredibly complex,...
Kolari Vision 550nm Infrared Filter Review
When Ilija, owner of Kolari Vision, emailed me regarding his introduction of the 550nm infrared filter this past winter and shared some of the initial images taken with it, I was intrigued. I had used various models of Nikon DSLRs converted for infrared photography since 2007, relying primarily on the...