Histograms are common in digital images and photo edition applications, but very few actually know how to use one and what a histogram really is. This video explains in detail what a histogram is and how to read and use them. Histograms show the saturation and color data in images, and how the images is ...
Depth of field is something every photographer should know, at least, he or she should know the basics of depth of field -- what is shallow/deep, what kind of lens gets the deepest/shallowest depth of field, how it affects lighting and so on. The video above has a very detailed explanation on depth of field, ...
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 ...
Time lapse videos are easy to make and easy to do decently. But to do great time-lapse videos is an art form, and requires lots of practice and hard work. Luckily, the video above, showcasing cities at night as time-lapse, belong in the latter category. Photographer and videographer Dominic Boudreault visited a number of cities, including ...
The video above shows an aperture on the Canon 18-55 mm moving when a photo is taken -- recorded with at 120 frames per second, and yet, the aperture is still too fast to see exactly how it works. The video is almost hypnotic. If you want to see a slower version, at 240 frames ...
Every once in a while, some interesting film shows up on Hulu, like Exit Through the Gift Shop. I thought Naked States, which you can watch above, might be of an interest to photographers. Naked States is about a photographer named Spencer Tunick who goes to every state in order to snap ...
Rangefinder cameras are thought of being difficult to use, with especially the focusing part which can become quite tricky. But it's not that difficult, as the video above shows. In order to focus a rangefinder camera, all you need to do is align to images in order to get the focus right. In the video ...
Digital cameras are everywhere these days, from phones, to point and shoot cameras, to DSLRs, to tablets and iPods, to very expensive cine cameras. Yes, the digital camera has taken over the world, and you can thank Steven Sasson for that. He worked at Kodak, where he in 1975 invented the fist digital camera, which ...
The Nikon vs Canon debate and war goes way back, decades before any of the new tech wars, like Microsoft vs Apple, PlayStation vs Nintendo. The Nikon vs Canon debate has been going on since the 1940s and 1950s, and it's still going strong in the digital era today. What we in the video above ...
Noted videographer Philip Bloom, who knows a thing or two about DSLR video, and his recent trip shows that. Bloom took with him a Canon 5D Mark II, Canon Rebel T2i, Canon Rebel T3i and Panasonic GH2, and used all cameras to film this impressive time lapse video of Seattle and its famous Space Needle. ...
