A lot of photographers make the mistake of not having a photography website, and only use social media platforms (like Instagram) or image portfolio platforms (like Flickr) to display their work and their services. This is a mistake because having a website gives you a lot of opportunities to market your services in a much…
In this video we will be learning about the importance of using flash in photography when compared to using ambient or natural light. The learning will also partially make you understand why to use flash instead of continuous light. Because what you will see is that using a flash enables us to expose both the…
In this video we will be learning how the three settings in the exposure triangle, i.e, Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO work together. We will be doing an exercise to understand this. Learning how the exposure triangle works is the key to understanding how to shoot in the manual mode of a DSLR or a…
In this video you will be learning how to clone yourself in Photoshop by creating a composite from multiple images. This type of photography is called as Clone or Cloning Photography, where you take multiple shots of the same subject at varying positions and then edit all the photos together to form a single image…
In this video we will be learning how to improve our portraits by using a Prime Lens and a Lens Hood. A Prime Lens allows you to use a wider aperture, thereby resulting in a shallow depth of field, which is great for achieving a blurred background. The use of a lens hood increases the…
In this video we will be learning when to use exposure compensation in photography. We will also be understanding how the different metering modes work and we will also be looking at the setting of Auto ISO. Here’s the video: This video is from our Photography for Beginners course, which has 45 videos and 7…
In this video we will be learning how to remove glare in our product shots. Glare is usually caused by reflections generated by the source of light that you are using. It often materializes in the form of bad looking shiny specular highlights. You will learn that we can diffuse these highlights by making the…
In this video we will be learning how and when to use the High Speed Sync function when it comes to doing outdoor off-camera flash photography for shooting portraits. You will learn that in situations where the ambient light is a lot and you still want to use a shallow depth of field, the High…
In this video we will be learning about the concept of Hyperfocal Distance in photography, and specifically in landscape photography. Even though the term sounds technical, what you will learn is that the concept basically talks about focusing on that point in your landscape shot which gives a good balance between the foreground, middle ground…
In this video we will be learning how to use the PRO mode of a cheap Android mobile phone to do light painting using a slow shutter speed and a tripod (long exposure photography). Here’s the video: This video is from our Mobile Photography Course, which has 40 videos and 6 hours of content. Use…