This is a very interesting tutorial video done by Jay P. Morgan: he is going to show you how to change sunlight into moonlight for stills or video. This is not a post-process; it’s an in-camera technique using two different color temperatures in the same image. Color balance can become another tool you can use to create mood and interest in your images. This will show you a creative way to shift the color balance of sunlight and...

Check out this interesting behind-the-scene video of a photoshoot. The video is about light modifiers for the light source you are currently looking at: your screen. Believe it or not, it provides enough light for charming portraits and bodyscapes. Download the light shapes from the LINK, put them into your favorite picture viewer and activate the full screen mode. Then just do what I do in the video. Your new light source will be fun to...

Giving that I’m no longer on Facebook for personal connection and social media, I particularly like this interview of Guy Kawasaki on Chase Jarvis Live. Guy Kawasaki is a venture capitalist and an Apple Fellow wrote a few best selling books like What the Plus! and Enchantment. In this interview, Guy talks about how to get more followers on social networks, and especially on Google+. I really like way he thinks as a VC and...

If you’re a headshot photographer who’s on a budget, but you want to create some nice portraits that look somewhat like Peter Hurley‘s work, maybe these videos might help. Pennsylvania-based photographer Joe Edelman builds his studio equipment with simple florescent, from strip lights to power banks. Obviously, when using florescent lights for photography, you’ll run into the problem of flickering from the...

This video just gave me a nerdgasm. Photographer/Director Chase Jarvis shares his bombproof workflow and backup for every image he shoots, stills and video alike. This in-depth look includes all the steps from capture to archive and gives you a method to ensure that you’ll never lose a single image. I work for a small publishing company in Stockton, California, and my company’s backup system isn’t even close to what Chase...

In this Slanted Lens lighting tutorial, Jay shows us how to use smoke as a creative tool for a photoshoot. Smoke is quite a genius tool to get you out of trouble if you have a background that needs to be covered up because it is too busy, boring or the wrong time period. It helps you separate a person from a dark night sky or dark building. Smoke adds atmosphere and texture to the image which brings it to life. This atmosphere and texture...

Being a photographer, I know that at least for some of us, it all began out as as hobby. You started shooting your friends, your family, and acquaintance for free or a very low price. You soon then realized that this was going to become a very expensive hobby, and somebody’s got to pay for all the gear and the bills. So, you wanted to charge people, but the business conversations with your friends and family didn’t come very...

After doing a lookbook photoshoot earlier with my buddy Michael from fittedlife.com, I came home and couldn’t turn off my photographer mode. I ended up spending an hour watching these behind-the-scene videos done by the guys on fstoppers.com. I’ve actually seen most of these, but it’s always a great inspiration to watch this type videos. My all-time favorite video is still the first one that they shot in a penthouse in Las...

I very much enjoy Jay P. Morgan and his educational lighting videos. We all have seen his videos on how to balance strobes with daylight, how to combine artificial lights and evening sky, or tips on softboxes here and here. In this tutorial, Jay shares with us the process of combining natural light and strobes on location, as it’s difficult to shoot video and stills on the same set-up unless you plan for it. I’ve already...

Man I need to get myself this Lensbaby Edge 80 soon. Put one of these in front of your camera, and you’ve got yourself a tilt-shift lens on the cheap. Lately, I’ve developed a passion for time-lapse photography. I can only imagine how great my videos would be if I had this bad boy. Granted, this lens will not be the only you’ll need to make it all work. You’ll also need to grab the composer that fits your camera...