Outdoor Photography How To

Now that the days are getting longer and summer is barely two weeks away photographers are spending more time outdoors, often shooting under less than ideal light. In the video below portrait photographer Manny Ortiz demonstrates how to take amazing portraits in high-contrast situations when the sun is high in the sky.

Most experienced landscape photographers consider a bombproof tripod absolutely essential. But when you combine the considerable weight of this accessory with the heft of a full pack, you end up with a heavy and cumbersome load for a full day of shooting in the field.

David Bergman is a NY-based photographer well known for his sports, celebrity, and concert images, and in the video below he’ll teach you how to harness the power of panoramic photography in less than three minutes.

If you're looking for an easy way to transform ordinary photos into breathtaking HDR images in Lightroom, we've got you covered with today's instructional video from the popular Adobe Live YouTube channel. This fast and effective workflow takes barely five minutes to explain and is perfect for inexperienced Lightroom users.

It’s not often one has an opportunity to glean expert advice from three of the top photographers in their field. But that’s what you’ll find in the following video, in which Marc Silber of Advancing Your Photography interviews a trio of the best travel shooters on the planet.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in Photoshop or Lightroom is to overedit your photos, right? You know what we're talking about: it's when you or a photographer you know (who shall remain nameless) makes so many software tweaks to an image that it starts to look garish and fake.

Tripods tend to be standard equipment for wildlife photographers striving for optimum sharpness. But when photographing birds, these three-legged camera supports can often be an encumbrance— especially when shooting birds in flight.