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. Are Cameras With Built-in HDR the Future of Photography?

      Are Cameras With Built-in HDR the Future of Photography?

      Tutorial Beginner

      High Dynamic Range photography is one of two things: something that will be as commonplace as a built-in flash in ten years, or a silly fad that will soon...

    2. The Complete Guide to Your Hot Shoe Flash

      The Complete Guide to Your Hot Shoe Flash

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Adding a flash or two to your gear bag presents countless opportunities to further enhance your photographs. So, today we present the complete guide to the...

    3. Quick Tip: Capturing Movement in Water

      Quick Tip: Capturing Movement in Water

      Tutorial Beginner

      Water is essential - nothing could live without it, it surrounds us, it can be dangerous, it can be beautiful, and as photographers, it's a subject that we...

    4. Film Is Alive and Well: Tips, Cameras, and Beginners Advice

      Film Is Alive and Well: Tips, Cameras, and Beginners Advice

      Tutorial Beginner

      When I first got into photography almost 20 years ago, film was the de facto standard and, obviously, the only standard. For over a hundred years film was...

    5. Shooting an Amazing Product Photo That Tells a Story

      Shooting an Amazing Product Photo That Tells a Story

      Tutorial Advanced

      In the United States, around $400 billion is spent on advertising each year. That's "billion" with a "b." A slice of that goes to producing photos for those...

    6. Step by Step: Buying & Shooting With an Antique Camera

      Step by Step: Buying & Shooting With an Antique Camera

      Tutorial Advanced

      When most people are given an antique, it's thrown onto a shelf as a nice dust-collecting decoration. Not me. I took my vintage 1924 Brownie camera...

    7. How to Create a Beautiful Seascape in Thirty Seconds

      How to Create a Beautiful Seascape in Thirty Seconds

      Tutorial Intermediate

      You may have noticed that there's a trend at the moment for taking seascapes with long exposures. A quick search on Flickr reveals hundreds of beautiful...

    8. Step By Step: Shooting the Perfect Model Head Shot

      Step By Step: Shooting the Perfect Model Head Shot

      Tutorial Advanced

      Like making a perfect omelette, taking a perfect head shot for a modeling portfolio is a simple process. Yet, it's all the small details that go into the...

    9.  How To Diffuse Your Pop-Up Flash with a Fong Puffer

      How To Diffuse Your Pop-Up Flash with a Fong Puffer

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Don't you just hate that little pop-up flash on your camera? Harsh shadows, blown highlights, ugly photos; no fun at all! If only there were a way to turn...

    10. 12 Tips & Tricks for Shooting Great Textures (And a Free Texture Pack!)

      12 Tips & Tricks for Shooting Great Textures (And a Free Texture Pack!)

      Tutorial Intermediate

      In this tutorial, I am going to share twelve useful tips & tricks that will help you to shoot great textures. I have been photographing textures for...

    11. The "Oh So Famous" Cereal Box Snoot

      The "Oh So Famous" Cereal Box Snoot

      Tutorial Beginner

      In today's tutorial, we've been given permission to publish a really interesting chapter of a new photography book - Home Studio Photography. It will take...

    12. Achieving Better Focus and Sharpness in Your Images

      Achieving Better Focus and Sharpness in Your Images

      Tutorial Intermediate

      The most common complaints I hear from most photographers of any experience level are "My images aren't sharp" and "I can't get my focus to lock." Most want...