Photo Equipment

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

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  • 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
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    1. Mind the Gaps: Creating Convincing Crowd Scenes

      Mind the Gaps: Creating Convincing Crowd Scenes

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Shooting convincing crowd scenes is difficult when you only have a few actors. This tutorial shows how to create a the appearance of a huge crowd with a...

    2. Ergonomic Principles and Practice for Photographers

      Ergonomic Principles and Practice for Photographers

      Tutorial Beginner

      It’s easy to unintentionally hurt ourselves when photographing and it’s difficult to shoot when hurt. We can prevent injury by changing our posture and how...

    3. Macro Equipment: Getting Started With Close-Up Photography

      Macro Equipment: Getting Started With Close-Up Photography

      Tutorial Beginner

      An introduction to popular macro photography methods and choosing lenses for close up photography.

    4. Intermediate Flash Photography

      Intermediate Flash Photography

      Course Intermediate

      If you’re familiar with the basics of flash or have taken our Introduction to Flash Photography course, it’s time to take your skills to the next level. In...

    5. 4 Alternative Camera Strap Systems

      4 Alternative Camera Strap Systems

      Tutorial Beginner

      Aftermarket camera straps have been available for a long time, however, poor quality and unnecessary features have made market options difficult for users...

    6. 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...

    7. 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...

    8. 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...

    9. 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...

    10. 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...

    11. 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...

    12. 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...