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. Getting Started With Your New Monolight Kit

      Getting Started With Your New Monolight Kit

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Monolight is a fancy name for a common type of studio flash unit. If you're interested in taking your lighting work to the next level, monolights are where...

    2. How to Achieve Simple, Dramatic Portrait Lighting

      How to Achieve Simple, Dramatic Portrait Lighting

      Tutorial Intermediate

      There are a million ways to light a portrait and the way you light it will convey something about your style and your subject. In this article, we'll focus...

    3. 9 Essential Tips to Shoot Classic Theater

      9 Essential Tips to Shoot Classic Theater

      Tutorial Beginner

      Photographing theater is a challenge. You'll face low light, prohibitions against flash, moving actors and unevenly lit stages. Here are some tips for you to...

    4. How to Photograph Jewelry

      How to Photograph Jewelry

      Tutorial Beginner

      You might not be invited to shoot jewelry for Christie’s catalogs, but taking pictures of your own jewelry can be a of fun, and a lesson about the way light...

    5. Light Painting Text and Images with a Tablet or Smartphone

      Light Painting Text and Images with a Tablet or Smartphone

      Tutorial Advanced

      In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a custom text or image light paintings using Adobe After Effects and your smartphone or tablet. You...

    6. Tethering a DSLR Camera to a Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet With a USB Cable

      Tethering a DSLR Camera to a Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet With a USB Cable

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Photographers have a lot of complaints when you ask them what they think about tablets. Most tablets lack the tools that photographers need to preview and...

    7. A Beginner's Guide to Lens Whacking

      A Beginner's Guide to Lens Whacking

      Tutorial Beginner

      In this tutorial, we'll take that lens off the camera and do some freelensing, also known as lens whacking. By unmounting the lens, you can create tilt-shift...

    8. Shooting a Bounty Hunter-Inspired Fashion Portrait

      Shooting a Bounty Hunter-Inspired Fashion Portrait

      Tutorial Advanced

      The American film, Domino starring Keira Knightley, was about a female bounty hunter whose good looks took a backseat to her martial arts skills and the...

    9. The Definitive Guide to Pinhole Photography: Part 2

      The Definitive Guide to Pinhole Photography: Part 2

      Tutorial Beginner

      Welcome to the second installment of designing and building your own pinhole camera! In this part, we'll be looking at alternative camera shapes and how to...

    10. The Definitive Guide to Pinhole Photography: Part 1

      The Definitive Guide to Pinhole Photography: Part 1

      Tutorial Beginner

      We all love digital and its versatility, speed and convenience. However, if you're like me, sometimes you yearn to go back to something more pure and simple....

    11. Photographing a Band for Their Album Cover

      Photographing a Band for Their Album Cover

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Photographing a band or artist can be a tricky process. There are often lots of people involved in creative decisions. As a result, it can end up being a...

    12. How to Shoot Colored Light and Water

      How to Shoot Colored Light and Water

      Tutorial Intermediate

      The challenge was simple: photograph colored light and water for an awesome shot. A good excuse to try something I had been thinking about for quite some...