Environmental portraits are a fantastic chance to show off your creativity and to tell a compelling story about your subject. This fantastic video will give you lots of helpful tips to improve your environmental portraits.

Professional landscape photographers do a lot more than simply pack their bag and head out into the wilderness to find great shots. There is an impressive amount of careful planning that goes into most shoots that often leverages some very helpful modern tools. This excellent video will show you how to plan your own landscape shoot to give yourself the best chances of a successful outcome.

Beauty photography can be a great chance to balance careful, precise lighting and to work on really perfecting precise retouching. This fantastic video will show you the process behind lighting, shooting, and editing this fantastic editorial beauty photo.

Adobe Premiere Pro is a tremendously complicated program with a wide range of features, effects, and capabilities, and it can be a bit overwhelming when you are new to it and learning how to edit video. If you are struggling a bit, this excellent video will show you an eight-step process for editing a video from start to finish in Premiere Pro.

Esteemed filmmaker, Philip Bloom, has a good amount of experience using DJI drones in his work. Now he's hands-on with the new DJI Mavic Air 2.

With stills cameras encroaching more and more on dedicated video camera territory, the lines are becoming blurred, and the choices are no longer straightforward.

Tamron is in the process of completing its trio of fast zooms with a difference. The latest arrival to the party is the 70-180 f/2.8 Di III VXD. This excellent review puts it through its paces.

If you want a project at home that will improve your small studio photography as well as your Photoshop and compositing skills, look no further. This detailed tutorial takes you through the entire process of shooting Oreos falling into a glass of glue. I mean milk.

When stuck at home, a portrait shooter turns the lens back on themselves.

Lately, I've been in somewhat of a slump. For a couple of months, I haven't shot very much other than products in my office studio.

Whether you are an owner of another company or someone with a nine-to-five job, you may want to start your own business offering photography or video services. This article will give you advice about how you should and should not name it.

Filmmaking is a complicated thing, and it takes the confluence of a lot of factors to create a successful final product. If you are interested in filmmaking, this great video features a music video director discussing his experience in shooting his first short film.

The DJI Mavic Air 2 is here, and it brings with it a bevy of improvements and new features over its predecessor. This great video review takes a look at the new drone and what you can expect from it in practice.

I've used a lot of lenses over the years, some good, some bad, but the vast majority comfortably in between. This lens, however, doesn't fit in any of those three camps.

When you have control of all the lighting on a video shoot, dialing in your white balance is a relatively straightforward procedure. But when you do not have control of all the lighting or you are in a situation with mixed color temperatures, it can be difficult to get the right white balance. This excellent video will give you eight helpful tips to always dial in the proper white balance.

Depending on what you need, there's a DJI drone for everyone. For most, you'll find that drone somewhere in DJI's Mavic lineup, which is now bolstered with improvements to its mid-range offering as its new Mavic Air 2 takes to the skies with a number of improvements borrowed from its pro relatives.

Lots of us could use a smile right now. If you are looking for something to distract you or simply to pass the time, this great video details 10 uplifting movies that are worth a watch.

The Nikon Z 7 currently sits atop the company's mirrorless lineup, with some excellent capabilities that are sure to make it a preferred tool for lots of photographers. If you are thinking of adding the camera to your arsenal, this excellent video will show you what you can expect from it.

A ton of people have dark circles under their eyes, and if you shoot pretty much any genre with humans, knowing how to reduce them during retouching is a crucial skill. This excellent video will show you an easy and quick method for reducing dark eye circles using Photoshop.

Primes, zooms, telephoto, wide angle, zooms, macro, tilt-shift: the sheer variety of camera lenses is astounding, and when you are new to photography, it can be a bit difficult to know what you should be looking for for your own work. This excellent video will introduce you to the most common types of lenses, what they are useful for, and how you can take advantage of them in your own work.

Canon's RF mirrorless lenses have received lots of praise for pushing optical boundaries and for their great image quality. This great video review takes a look at one of those lenses, the RF 15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM.

Viral sensation, Jordi Koalitic, is back with some more unique photography concepts for you to try, and as always, they're pretty damn good.

Ok, so we can't take photographs in public at the moment. But after lockdown ends, the opportunity to go out and photograph will be overwhelmingly exciting! But what if you find yourself feeling shy taking photographs in public? Pierre T. Lambert has 5 great tips on how to overcome this fear — well worth a watch!

Last week, without any fanfare, Canon released a piece of software that could have far-reaching implications for the future of digital photography. Forget the EOS R5 news. This is bigger.

This is not a negative piece on Canon, nor am I complaining about what Canon is or isn't doing. Now that I have that out of the way, let's get realistic about Canon cameras for a moment.

So a court recently decided that anyone can use your public Instagram images for free without having to notify you, much less pay you. Lots of photographers out there are outraged, but should you care?

For some people, the magnitude of this pandemic doesn't seem all too real. Unfortunately, these photos prove otherwise.

There is a bit of trend toward heavy post-processing in landscape photography these days, with advanced techniques like luminosity masks and focus stacking prevailing in lots of images. And while there is certainly nothing inherently wrong with those techniques, sometimes, it is satisfying to use simple, straightforward techniques to finish a photo. This great video will show you a range of simple methods in Lightroom for creating compelling landscape images.

Photography can be a really slow pursuit that takes serious commitment to progress in, often occurring in disjointed steps rather than steady, continuous growth. This excellent video features a photographer discussing some of those pivotal moments in his own growth, and they make great lessons for lots of us.

A wide angle, wide aperture prime lens is a versatile optic that can jump into a lot of situations competently, ranging from events work to astrophotography. This excellent video review takes a look at just such a lens, the Sony FE 20mm f/1.8 G.

The moment I first shot with my Sigma 105mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens, it became my go-to portrait lens thanks to its fantastic image quality, great bokeh, and snappy performance. And while I paid full price for mine, today only, you can take $430 off your own copy.

Luminar 4 brings with it lots of interesting capabilities, including some fantastic AI tools. This great video examines what you can accomplish with it when working on landscape images.

You can have the best visuals in the world, but if your video has poor or distracting audio, it will be difficult for your viewers to enjoy it as you intended. If you notice your video has excess background noise, this helpful video will show you how to remove it.

Many of us are struggling to come up with ideas for photos while stuck in the house, so any suggestions are warmly welcomed!

When you are new to photography, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to learn all the technical parameters, their relationships, and their consequences on your photos. This excellent video will get you on your way to better understanding them and taking more control of your images.

Though Fujifilm's most powerful cameras generally get the majority of the attention, the company has a vast array of more affordable bodies that still have a lot of the capabilities of their more expensive cousins. One such example is the X-T200, and this great video takes a look at what you can expect from it in video work.

Landscape photographers often prize resolution and dynamic range in a camera above pretty much all other features and specs. This great video takes a look at one such camera, the Nikon Z 7, and how it holds up in practice for landscape photographers.

The lockdown has left a lot of us itching for something to shoot as we are unable to travel or meet with clients. If you are one of those people, you should consider the world waiting to be unlocked by simply photographing the flowers around your yard. This great video discusses the joy of the process and the great images you can create.

As creatives, we all love opportunities to work out creativity muscles and test how far we can push it. This was how the shoot “Inception” came about for photographer Astrid Obert.

As a photographer with a decent following on both YouTube and Instagram, you start to see certain patterns in the comments and direct messages. One question I see repeatedly is about camera settings. “What is the EXIF data of X or Y photo?”. I always wonder why people want that information.

When it comes to composition rules, we often use the rule of thirds to build up a composition. It is an easy way to bring a little bit of order in chaos. Another good habit is the use of lines. It can be used to strengthen your composition.

If you're thinking of using your new-found free time to start a YouTube channel, or if you just to put some different type content out there, having a good basic lighting setup helps you to stand out from the crowd. This video goes through the basics of video lighting with gear that doesn't break the bank.

A photographer was fortunate enough to have his gear on hand when he spotted two penguins comforting each other as they looked out towards the skyline from St. Kilda pier in Melbourne, Australia.

To help you pass the time during this period of social isolation, Kodak has come up with an idea: a jigsaw puzzle containing more than 50,000 pieces that's as long as a bus — yours for just $599.95.

In a recent interview with CNN, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the platform will begin banning content that promotes any unproven or fake treatments for coronavirus. In addition, the platform will seek to block any content that "goes against" WHO guidelines on the pandemic.

Large format film is an entirely different experience from 35mm or even medium format, and it can be a really fun and intriguing process to try out. If you are interested in large format work, this great video will show you three different ways to develop your own film at home.

This is a bit of a taboo subject among photographers, but in this video, I look back at my work and how much I charged and what validated that rate at any given point in my career through to today.

The Desert Island albums question is a favorite for many podcasts, with the premise altered slightly for the industry in question. So let's see what the answer is for our readers.

Canon recently announced its newest cinema camera, the C300 Mark III, which features a variety of improvements over the Mark II. This excellent video takes a first look at the new camera and what sort of footage and experience you can expect from it in practice.