Photography is quite easy to learn and extremely hard to master. One can read photography books, take photography classes -- anything to improve their art. But is also great to listen to professional photographers, like the video above, which gives a lot of tips and guidelines for photographers. For instance, one mistake many make, including ...

Usually folks clean their DSLR lenses with a napkin, maybe a little spit on the way, but that's not how the pros do it. In this video tutorial, it teaches you how to properly clean that expensive lens you just bought. You start off by blowing off any dust that might be on the glass, ...

Retouching is these days done by almost every portrait photographer, either they do it themselves or they have professional Photoshop wizzards do it. Especially the high end magazines and publications employ heavy usage of Photoshopping, to make sure their famous models appear as close to perfect as possible. Sometimes, a bit too perfect. But it's ...

We've always been amazed how an external flash can perfectly synchronize with the camera shutter, and in the video above, photographer Paul Duncan explains how it all works. He also explains the focal plane shutters and shutter curtains, and how they work -- something we didn't know.

Usually, in order to create fluid slow motion, you need to shoot video at a high frame rate, then play back at normal frame rate, other wise it'll look choppy. While most don't have cameras that can do such things, there is a possibility in Adobe After Effects to create slow motion video... from photos ...

So in perhaps the ultimate proof that municipalities put in red light cameras for fast cash as opposed to any sense of "protecting the citizens", Jefferson Parish is looking at a huge slug of cash as a result of its installation of the cameras.  But they've got just two hurdles to cross before they can ...

CNET just busted my eyes open by presenting a really, REALLY unpleasant hypothesis, one that shakes a camera reviewer like myself to his very core.  Check this out from one of CNET's biggies in review, Joshua Goldman: Unfortunately, after testing many snapshot cameras available in a single color as well as those offered in several colors, ...

There are a lot of things you can do with busted devices and it is quite amazing at what they can produce. Like in the case of mobile phone users who want to get better quality for their built-in cameras, who would have thought that old focusing lenses from DVD players would return great results. Give ...

With the turn of the digital imaging age, old-style cameras such as Polaroids have since been slowly disappearing. In fact, Polaroid had already announced in 2008 that they will be ceasing production for instant film and cameras. But thanks to the initiative by The Impossible Project, we may yet see their return by 2010. But ...

It looks like video contests are growing rampant these days and the latest tries to cover the TampaBay area. This time, TampaBay.com announces its first online video contest. The contest is Sean Daly's Big Show Off where participants are invited to showcase their talent and submit them via video. The winning entry will be awarded ...