In Part One of  the Light Painting Tutorial I went over how to do the photography part: equipment, camera settings, set up, lighting, potential pitfalls, and step by step instruction on how to do light painting shots.  In this article Part Two,...

In this second installment of my ‘Photography Bucket List’ series we’re going to cover arguably one of the most beautiful places on earth; the Cinque Terre region on Italy’s west coast. I had the opportunity to visit this region on my first...

A short while ago Sony got a good buzz about their soon to be introduced AKA-DM1 dog-mounted camera harness for the HDR-AS15. This particular harness is set to initially release in Japan and it not yet available in the US. Yet, Jenny Cisney, chief...

I’m presuming that this article will not apply to most of us… but after 3 conversations in the last week which revealed the same photography problems in 3 different people – I thought I’d better jot them down. Warning: none of this is rocket...

Last week I took the opportunity to photograph several amazing sights in Yosemite National Park ranging from night & astro landscapes, moonbows and blooming Dogwoods. The later is what captured my eye by day. This is the first time I’ve seen...

Devin Graham which some of you may know as Devin Supertramp from his youtube channel is one of those things that could never exist before the internet. What does he do? He makes videos. Awesome, wonderful, inspiring, breathtaking videos. Devin is...

My favorite photography comic What the Duck is back as a daily. If you’re unfamiliar with What the Duck it’s authored by Aaron Johnson, whom I interviewed several years ago when I was running my EXIF and Beyond podcast. While I’ve never met...

In my Lynda.com Macro and Close-up course, I cover the simple basics of reversing the lens you already have to turn it into a macro lens. This gives you an extremely easy way to start shooting macro, without having to invest in any special gear. If...

There are a lot of small things in the world, and many of them make great photographic subjects, provided you know how to shoot at a macro scale with your camera. In this course, you’ll see all the basics of macro shooting. If you don’t have a...

Ever since evangelizing the importance of social media to fellow photographers in 2006, I’ve long yearned for a tool to help balance photo/video editing time with the incredibly important task of marketing myself on social media. After years of...

Photographer Jesse David Mcgrady shares an awesome tip for creating hazy and mystical photos in camera using a simple ingrediant you probably have right next to you. Photographing someone or somewhere kinda boring or plain? Want to punch it up with...

Following the great demand, here are 49 Awesome Photography Hacks, Mods And DIY Projects. Tripods Photography Projects In this section tripod for macro photography, tripods for food photography, tripod for your bicycles. Did I say...

Fuji's X-E1 is a great mirrorless camera that really gives SLR a run for their money, in terms of image quality and usability. I've been shooting with one for about a month now. Here are some of my thoughts about it.

Rob Gipman submitted this great hack to our Flickr pool. It is a water resistant protective sleeve for the Canon 100-400L lens. What makes this lens ideal for sleeve protection (aside than the $1459 price tag) is the fact that this lens zooms by...

Win an eMotimo TB3 Black & Dynamic Perception Stage 0 Dolly System with a Quick Change 8 RPM & 21 RPM with MX2/AT2 Controller! I am happy to announce that I’ve teamed up with eMotimo and Dynamic Perception to giveaway the ultimate time-lapse...

Photographer Oriol Domingo sent in this tutorial which I find very interesting. It is a poor man's high-speed trigger for shooting balloons. It is one part cable, and two parts sewing needles, but no electronics or fancy laser activated triggers....

While this is not 100% related to DIY, it is something that I had given quite a lot of thought to over the years. I guess this is one of those "big" questions. How do we actually know that our internal feelings and perceptions match the feelings...

One of the more intriguing visual phenomenon is seeing a giant moon on the horizon. One might think that there is some physical explanation as to why the moon is larger when low on the horizon, but its actually a visual illusion where your brain is...

Learn the details of my new Lynda.com course "Foundations of Photography: Specialty Lenses"

I’m currently deep in the process of preparing a macro shooting course for Lynda.com As anyone who’s ever dabbled in macro knows, as you get closer, your depth of field gets more shallow. Sometimes unusably shallow. However, there are things you...