Foster Jerod – Spend Time Learning The Craft: Shooting for Improvement

I’m going to echo a lot of folks in the industry and say that this really is one of the best times to be a photographer or getting into photography. We’re offered so many opportunities to shoot, publish (for pay or not), and build communities around the subject, and the technology is more available than [...]

Matthias Hombauer: Best of concert photography 2011!

This will be my last article of my concert photography series and I want to say a big thank you to the team of Manfrotto (especially Silvia and Marco) for giving me the opportunity to share my knowledge in this awesome environment. I think the Manfrotto School Of Xcellence is an important contribution to the [...]

Michael Freeman: Ordinary Objects

When there’s something special – spectacular scenery from a great viewpoint, or a palace, or a costumed festival – it acts as a magnet for cameras. Indeed, photography of the special, the beautiful, the grandest, becomes something of a purpose. When the question is ‘what shall we go and photograph’, pride of place in the [...]

Michael Freeman: A Day in the Life

Most of what I’ve been writing about this year has involved techniques of one kind or another. For me, as you’ll know by now, the word ‘technique’ embraces more that technical ways of doing things, and goes wider than ƒstops, software procedures and working the camera controls. Technique embraces composition, framing, planning, all the real-world [...]

IPhoneography: reflections on the photographic means and language.

It’s been a bit since the first mobile phone allowed everyone to take a picture and since then, as for many things, technology has advanced and the photographic means have reached characteristics unimaginable till a few years ago. The big brands of the photographic sector announced the birth of the smaller “mirrorless” cameras; mobile phone [...]

Michael Freeman: Rain on

It’s become almost a cliché of photography advice. ‘When it rains, don’t put your camera away; there are great shots to be had.’ I’ve said it myself. But there’s a caveat, and that is there are only some good opportunities, maybe really just a few. Do not expect that when it’s raining all over your [...]

Michael Freeman: Tilt, Disjoint, Confuse!

Wonky horizons are not generally considered to be the height of professionalism. But, and it’s a big but, if they’re obviously deliberately skewed, then it’s a different matter. Tilting the camera is a time-honored device for being different and dynamic — at least, that’s what its supporters say. We’re not talking just about horizon lines, [...]

John Dominick: 48 hours on the Jurassic Coast

I live about two hours drive from a designated World Heritage Site known as the “Jurassic Coast”. The geologists amongst you will know that I speak of a near 100 mile stretch of coastline running from Dorset to Devon in the UK that offers easy access to rocks and cliffs spanning 180 million years of [...]

Matthias Hombauer: Big gear for big venues

In the last tutorials we were talking about how to get into the concert photography business, which equipment you need as a newbie and how to get a photo pass. Since you are now ready to get into big rockstardom you need also proper equipment for your job: Ok, this is the deal. Bigger Venues [...]

Adam Barker: Magic Hour Shooting – Part I

“Magic Hour”—sounds like the next great soon-to-be-has-been tween punk band. Buuut, it’s actually much more than that. The magic hour is your most valuable cohort in creating imagery that earns keeper status, and stays out of the trash bin. Interestingly enough, this elusive “magic hour” can be more like a magic minute at times, or [...]

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