Photo Equipment

Discover the best photography equipment to achieve better results. Read our guides to the best cameras, lenses, lighting, tripods, filters, and more.

Getting started with Equipment

  • How to Use the BMPCC: Complete Guide to Setup, Filming, and Post-Production

    How to Use the BMPCC: Complete Guide to Setup, Filming, and Post-Production

    Marie Gardiner
  • All Equipment tutorials:

    1. Create a Surreal Miniature Portrait: The Shoot

      Create a Surreal Miniature Portrait: The Shoot

      Tutorial Advanced

      In this tutorial, you will be learning how to create a surrealistic portrait with extreme proportions. I'll run you through how to setup and capture the...

    2. 10 Things You Didn't Know About Your Camera

      10 Things You Didn't Know About Your Camera

      Tutorial Beginner

      As digital SLR cameras become more and more popular, features that used to reserved for professionals are now available to everyone. More and more technology...

    3. Making Photos That Look Like They Were Shot at Night

      Making Photos That Look Like They Were Shot at Night

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Creating a photo that looks like it was shot at night can be difficult. In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look a creating some images that appear as...

    4. A Quick Start Guide to 6 Specialty Lenses

      A Quick Start Guide to 6 Specialty Lenses

      Tutorial Beginner

      Often, lenses in the photography community are similar in design. Each brand has similar focal length ranges and speeds for their popular lenses (all major...

    5. Using Flashes to Create Light That Looks Natural

      Using Flashes to Create Light That Looks Natural

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Back in college, I was taught there were two ways to light a subject with strobes or flashes. You can make the light part of the story of the image, showing...

    6. Smoke and Mirrors: Boosting Your Strobe Count on the Cheap

      Smoke and Mirrors: Boosting Your Strobe Count on the Cheap

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Not all that long ago, I was in the unenviable position of having only a camera, lens and flash. While the popularity of one-light tutorials and DVDs...

    7. Quick Tip: Choosing Ambient Lighting for Your Workspaces

      Quick Tip: Choosing Ambient Lighting for Your Workspaces

      Tutorial Beginner

      Lighting is important for actual image making itself, but what about the rest of the process? For the final images to look right, all the pieces of the...

    8. 3 Great Ways to Utilize a Light Cube

      3 Great Ways to Utilize a Light Cube

      Tutorial Intermediate

      It’s common to think of a light cube (also known as a light tent or photo cube), as simply a tool for shooting products to sell for eBay. Many light cubes...

    9. How to Sell Your Used Photography Equipment

      How to Sell Your Used Photography Equipment

      Tutorial Beginner

      It's called "Gear Acquisition Syndrome," and photographers all over the world are being diagnosed with it. It's a disease, that effects us all at one point...

    10. Three Shots, Three Lights: Bare Bulbs Edition

      Three Shots, Three Lights: Bare Bulbs Edition

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Time for another round of three shots, three lights! This time, I'm not just looking at three lights in general, but specifically what's achievable with only...

    11. How to Safely Clean Your Camera and Lenses

      How to Safely Clean Your Camera and Lenses

      Tutorial Intermediate

      In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to effectively and safely clean your camera, lenses and sensor. We are going to break down all the needed...

    12. Quick Tip: Like the Beauty Dish Look? Try This Softbox Trick!

      Quick Tip: Like the Beauty Dish Look? Try This Softbox Trick!

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you're wondering about stepping your portraiture game up with a beauty dish, but not sure if the investment is worth it to you yet, I've come up with a...