What are the Luxli Viola LED Panels? Can they help your photography or videography? About Luxli Viola lights Luxli Lights has two generations of lightweight yet effective lights. While the photos here are of the original Luxli Viola, the Luxli Viola² has similar features. About the Viola The original Viola
High-quality LED light painting flashlights are challenging to find at any price. Can you find one for under $30? I tried to find out. Six features I wanted for a light painting flashlight I wanted a lot out of a flashlight for light painting but without laying out a lot
It can be overwhelming to arrive at a beautiful landscape to make pictures, or to a portrait shoot and be faced with making great pictures on demand. When I make portraits for a client, I have to deliver or there’s no food on the table — how’s that for pressure?
Around this time of year, we always see so many articles about how to photograph fireworks. What if you don’t like fireworks or they’re rained out, or possibly canceled? What else can you do to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday photographically? Flowers always work Next grocery store run, pick
We don’t get a lot of snow here in Sedona, AZ. When it falls with accumulation, it’s an event. My having made mistakes in the past can help you in the future. To use a couple Disney characters, keep your snow from turning into “Drizella” and make it “Snow White.”
(Editor’s note: Thanks to our partner, Rocky Nook, for this chapter on “dramatize with black and white” from “The Enthusiast’s Guide to Composition.” This title and many and more how-to educational books for photographers are right here.) While it’s clear that the use of color can be a powerful compositional
I feel like this topic is one that can be debated from here to eternity. It’s a fun discussion where everyone is right. Which has more emotion, black and white photographs or color photographs? I wanted to bring this up because while testing ColouriseSG for a video (below) I chose
(Editor’s note: This is a guest post by photographer and educator, Tim Grey.) There are many situations where the color in our photographs can be particularly challenging to get right. When a scene features a variety of different light sources, the different colors of light can combine to create colors
Category: Sports Photograph: Ian Lewry “The Red Arrows” Seeing planes soar through the sky can be a special experience — the red, white and blue trails coming off the planes give a certain pride in the photograph. But coupled with the rainbow behind, and you get something truly unique. The
When it comes to reflectors, I prefer large oval shaped tools and the Impact Collapsible Oval Reflector Disc is a good one. In this video, I show you the things I like about it. The unit I show has a reflective white side and a soft gold side. I like
This post started with an email from a friend, Carole, who I hadn’t heard from in… well, decades. She wondered if I still had the negatives from a shoot we did together in December of 1977. Of course I had them. The challenge was how to easily see them digitally.
Black and white photographs can be very impactful, but there’s so much more to making great black and whites than simply removing the color. In this episode, Adobe’s Bryan O’Neil Hughes is back to help us demonstrate all the great tools Lightroom has for helping us make the most of
