Make your own wearable RGB Light
I think by now we are all familiar with the term practical light. But have ever wanted to have a light in frame attached to your model in your creative
I think by now we are all familiar with the term practical light. But have ever wanted to have a light in frame attached to your model in your creative
Is your white light actually white? Or does it have a green tint? So imagine this: You got your first LED light…. or third… it’s a nice one, it has
Continue reading…Easy way to check for color shifting in your lights
I never had a lens with a focusing tab and I wanted to give it a try. Today, out of curiosity, I designed and 3D-printed a focusing tab for my
Continue reading…IS THE FOCUSING TAB A SECRET OF LEICA SHOOTERS?
This article is not just for my fellow Nikon DSLR users but for all the lens nerds out there! I know there aren’t many DSLR users left around but let’s
Continue reading…If your Helios doesn’t have swirly bokeh, this might be the cause.
It has been a bit over a year since my first article about film grain. And I thought that that was it and that I’d dug more in-depth than most
Continue reading…The rabbit hole of adding grain to digital photos gets even deeper (part 2)
There is a huge difference between saving all your settings when you are done with an image and carefully crafting a preset that will be useful for others. Our shooting
This article strives to be the ultimate design guide on modifying your spherical lens to produce the type of anamorphic boke you can see in the movies. And because I’m
Continue reading…Craft stunning Anamorphic Bokeh with Custom Lens Inserts.
I’ll start this article by saying, I love shooting vintage glass for the character it can imprint on my images. I love the swirly bokeh, the bloom, and the flares
Continue reading…If you use vintage lenses you have to try this
I will preface this by saying that I am not an Adobe fanboy and if this is not clear, I am not paid to praise the Lightroom Classic team in
Continue reading…Hot to use masks to take Lightroom Grain to the next level
As a passionate photographer, I started my journey years ago by transforming my bedroom into a DIY studio. With nothing but a bucket of paint and a wall, I created
Continue reading…LEDs are THE WAY. I don’t want to use Flash anymore