The post Non-Photographic Activities To Improve Your Photography Without Leaving Home appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Ana Mireles. What makes a good photograph? Is it more about the form or the content? The great photographer Cartier Bresson once said, “to photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye, and the heart.” So, here are some suggested activities to improve your photography by exercising your mind. There are lots of things you can do to improve your photography without leaving home – from getting inspiration and exercising your analytical perception to gaining introspection to focus your mind. In this article, you’ll find some ideas to get you going. 1/6 sec....

We spend a lot of time discussing things like lighting, posing, editing, and the like, but one that perhaps does not get the amount of discussion it needs is the choice of backdrop. This fantastic video discusses a wide range of different backdrops and the pros and cons of each for different photographic applications. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

A good Milky Way photo can be absolutely stunning, and there are a number of fantastic ways to incorporate it into landscapes or even portraits. This fantastic video will show you lots of great tips for improving your Milky Way photos. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Alex Cooke

“Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, just outside of Denver, Colorado, is a remarkable place to photograph grassland species like bison, prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets, raptors, coyotes, meadowlarks and variety of songbirds,” photographer Emma Balunek observes. “I visited one morning after a fresh snow hoping to make wildlife images and found a group of bison roaming and sticking their heads through the foot of snow to reach the vegetation beneath. “As the bison began to take a rest, a black-billed magpie flew into the herd and started searching for insects on this bison’s face. The bird was quite chatty, squawking in the bison’s ear. The bison shook its head in an attempt to get the magpie off, but it always returned,...

Photo By Harry Lichtman Washington state is home to some of the most dramatic and accessible coastlines in the U.S. Second Beach, near the town of LaPush, is a gem of the National Park System and boasts sea stacks, arches, tidal pools and expansive areas of sandy Olympic coast. During a spring visit to Olympic National Park, Second Beach was high on my list due to such a concentration of natural features. Spruce trees growing atop rocky sea stacks were one of the most compelling attributes that enticed me to this beach. The spring sun sets in the direction of Quateata Arch, so the lighting possibilities were a bonus. The forested walk to the beach is a gentle 0.7 miles, which...

I recently picked up a Mint RF70, a fully manual camera designed to accept Fuji’s Instax Wide film. After capturing a few images with it over the past few days, I’m reminded of why I love instant film so much. Yes, it’s magical watching a print develop right in front of you, but that has nothing to do with why instant film is so exceptional. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Zac Henderson

Photo By Gary Fua Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Grandeur” by Gary Fua. Location: Yosemite National Park, California. “Vernal Falls thundering as snow melts during spring season,” describes Fua. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Gary Fua appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff

Do you struggle to take beautiful iPhone photos in the forest? Forest photography can be challenging. But with a few simple tips, you can capture incredible forest photos with amazing light. Watch this video from our new iPhone Landscape Mastery course… and discover how to shoot stunning forest photos with your iPhone. CLICK HERE to get the full iPhone Landscape Mastery course where you’ll discover more tips and techniques for taking stunning landscape photos with your iPhone. The post How To Shoot Stunning iPhone Forest Photos [Video Tutorial] appeared first on iPhone Photography School. Original linkOriginal author: Kate Wesson

The post Nikon Launching Two New Mirrorless Cameras in 2020 appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Jaymes Dempsey. While Canon’s soon-to-debut mirrorless offerings have dominated the news, we have a new Nikon rumor to report: The imaging company will release two mirrorless cameras before the year is out. While the details of these cameras are uncertain, previous rumors have indicated that a Nikon Z8 is currently under development; this will be a “pro” body à la the Nikon D850 series, one that features a 60 MP sensor, a rugged build, and dual card slots. And given that the Z8 has been given a suggested “late 2020” or “early 2021” release date, such a camera would certainly fit...

This is another one of the questions asked during our Lightroom Conference (which we’ll get to below), and it brought up another question: If you were to create a preset that applied an Auto Adjustment, would it apply the same Auto Adjustment to every image (moving the sliders to the same exact locations for every image), or would it analyze each image separately as it imports them, so each image would be Auto corrected individually, even if they were imported as a group of images? Note: If you’re wincing at the thought of using Auto at all, I will tell you that today it’s vastly better than its ever been. It’s actually now quite useable as a starting place to being...

The definition of travel is “to go on a journey, often of some length which typically occurs abroad.” That being said, people travel to work, the store and the mall, so travel needn’t be restricted by a designated number of miles or a definite time duration. There’s neither a minimum on the number of hours, days or weeks nor a minimum number of miles one must travel from home to meet the definition. The reason I make a big point of this is that many photographers restrict their photography to the times they travel great distances. Large gaps of time go on between vacations and the photo gears get rusty if photography is solely restricted to when you “travel.” Especially during...

ISO and digital noise are often a cause for concern with photographers. In this video, I look at how much noise is acceptable in an image and how that varies depending on the application of the photograph. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Scott Choucino

Netflix’s "Extraction" has just become the most watched Netflix original film, with 90 million viewers over its first four-week period, which means director Sam Hargrave’s efforts paid off. In this newly released video, we see footage of how Hargrave straped himself to a car in order to film an epic one-take car chase scene. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Jack Alexander

Last month, Fujifilm quietly revealed that it would be opening up the API around its lens autofocus to allow other manufacturers to start making lenses. Following on from the well-received and affordable 85mm f/1.8, Viltrox has created a 33mm f/1.4 — in effect, a nifty fifty — and the early reviews are starting to appear. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Andy Day

Photo By Theresa Ditson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Courthouse Butte Wildflowers” by Theresa Ditson. Location: Sedona, Arizona. “Late-evening light brings a prominent rock formation in Sedona to life while a carpet of purple owl’s clover wildflowers decorates the foreground,” describes Ditson. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Theresa Ditson appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff

The post Lightroom Preset Compatibility: XMP or LRTemplate Confusion? appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Adam Welch. Over the last couple of years, Adobe has made some enormous changes to its flagship post-processing software. In short, some of these changes can be slightly…confusing. As someone who uses Adobe Lightroom a lot (and I do mean A LOT), perhaps one of the most confusing changes to Lightroom to come down the pike was Adobe’s choice to change the format of its develop presets from .lrtemplate to .xmp. This has led to quite a bit of head-scratching from hobbyists and professional photogs alike over Lightroom preset compatibility. Today, once and for all (until Adobe changes things), we’re going to...

I am not a food photographer and never will be, but I still enjoyed giving myself the challenge to shoot what I had left of my lockdown food shop. Whatever type of photography you specialize in, shooting food can be a fun way to put your own unique spin on it. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Anete Lusina

Photo By Tanner Thibert Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Pacific Northwest Forrest Road” by Tanner Thibert. Location: Greenwater, Washington. Shot with a GoPro HERO6 Black, Thibert describes the image as, “An aerial photo showing a mountain forest road curving through the tree line in Greenwater, Washington.” See more of Tanner Thibert’s photography at www.tannerthibert.com. Photo of the Day is chosen from various OP galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and the OP Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the OP website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To get your photos in the running, all you have to do is submit them. The post Photo Of The Day By Tanner Thibert appeared first on Outdoor Photographer. Original linkOriginal author: Staff

We all know that lockdown is a great time to learn a new skill, so here's a half an hour guide to get your started with creating videos using Da Vinci Resolve 16. [ Read More ]Original linkOriginal author: Robert K Baggs

The post How to Setup For Doing Live Streaming and YouTube Videos at Home appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Caz Nowaczyk. Since many of us are spending most of our time at home at the moment, I thought I’d share this great video from the dPS founder, Darren Rowse, on how to do live streaming and YouTube videos from your own home as a way to reach your audience and promote your photography. He shares his complete live streaming setup, which I have listed below so that you can see if you have some of this gear already. Of course, you can replace some of this gear with the equipment you already have too. Most DSLR...