Travel Photography How To

When it's so hot that fire hydrants hold signs that read, "Dogs Welcome!" or so cold that you have to chew your vodka shooter, photographers must take special precautions to maintain focus. Here are the products that are alleged to protect you from everything except arachibutyrophobia (the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth).

Summer or early fall is when many of us go on vacation, whether it's a quick weekend jaunt to the beach, a flight across the country, or a carefully planned international destination. So buckle up and spend the next nine minutes learning how to commemorate your trip with beautiful photographs rather than mere snapshots that quickly fade from memory.

Canon compiled ultimate gear lists for five categories of content creators, and they make a compelling 3-minute read. While Canon calls them "kits," they're actually detailed recommendations with logical rationale for each ingredient.

Some styles of photography cry out for specific types of lenses (although we're strong proponents of experimenting beyond common conventions). Wide focal lengths, for example, are the primary choice of landscape shooters, while very few experienced wildlife photographers would venture out in the field without a long telephoto of 400mm or more.

Everyone loves sunny, cloudless days with bright blue skies when travelling or spending a day at the beach. But when it comes to creating compelling landscape photographs, well, not so much.

One foolproof method for transforming a dull landscape photo into an attention-grabbing winner is to embellish the shot with natural-looking light rays. This video from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel demonstrates a very effective Lightroom process for getting the job done to perfection.

If you're struggling with flat colors in landscape, travel, and street photography the culprit is likely an incorrect White Balance setting that don't match the task at hand. Today's quick tutorial from Nifty Photographers demonstrates how to configure your camera properly and employ custom White Balance to capture vibrant images in various conditions.