Category: Shoot

Photograph a lightning

During the warmest days of the Northern hemisphere, it is more pleasant to go and photograph the stars or even the storm coming at the end of a day too hot. The PhotoArgus web site will tell you all about it: Lightning, a photography primer.

BBC wildlife photo masterclasses, for free

You could do much worse than learning from the best wildlife photographers. Actually, the BBC Wildlife Magazine is now providing an impressive list of compact training courses for wildlife photography. There are titles like: Wild Places Mammal Portraits Plant Portraits From Dusk to Dawn Underwater Photography Invertebrate Portraits Birds in Flight Animals in their Environment…

Laser reticle for your SLR

If you are as found of action movies and action video games as you love photography, you may appreciate the looks of this small hot-shoe accessory which will help you align your camera with your subject. Four separate reticles (Point, Circle Point, Circle Cross, Cross), two colors (green, red), and three laser strengths define this…

Remote control with LiveView display

The best of all worlds, the miracle combination. But, most of all, a great little trick of engineering: a radio remote control for your photo camera which communicates with a small gadget fixed in the flash shoe of your SLR camera and transmitting the image right from the SLR direct AV connector. Really smart thingy.…

The art of camera tossing

Camera tossing is all about sending a photo camera up in the air while in long exposure settings to record the whirling moves of the camera into a somewhat different picture. This is an obviously dangerous photo technique (How many times can you strike such a move without letting the camera fall on the floor?)…

Underwater photography

Underwater photography is a technique specifically difficult to master. As in all other photography genres, there are some parameters to take into account in order to create a nice picture (even if a good technician is not enough to produce great photos). More than in any other photography types, you have to adapt to a…

3 demonstrations of flash/studio photo

Studio photography is clearly a real specialty and I don’t hide my admiration for those photographers able to master its difficult techniques. I recently found three demonstrations of what may be a beautiful studio lighting, along with dense explanations and welcome details. Anatomy of a photo: Balvenie Scotch Professional Studio Lighting – Playing with Mirrors…

Bursting the bubble

Here is an exceptional photo. Nothing was Photoshopped, its author, Richard Heeks, only reinforced a little the colors to make them a little more vibrant. This a soap bubble popping in front of the camera. Try and do the same.