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

    Marie Gardiner
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    1. 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...

    2. 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...

    3. 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...

    4. 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...

    5. 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...

    6. Shooting Portraits for the Web and Why it's Different

      Shooting Portraits for the Web and Why it's Different

      Tutorial Intermediate

      If you have a website, use a lot of social media, or write articles for print, you need a simple portrait thumbnail that will support the content you are...

    7. Shooting Portraiture at Night: A Practical Tale

      Shooting Portraiture at Night: A Practical Tale

      Tutorial Intermediate

      I love night shooting and night photography. I think it's the ambience that comes from a dark blue environment dotted with yellow-orange lighting. It's like...

    8. Freezing Action With an Einstein Monolight

      Freezing Action With an Einstein Monolight

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Introduced in 2010, the Paul C. Buff Einstein has been rapidly growing in popularity as tales of its capabilities spread via the popular photography blogs....

    9. The Versatility of the Humble Beauty Dish

      The Versatility of the Humble Beauty Dish

      Tutorial Beginner

      Unless you're very new to modifiers, you've likely heard of a beauty dish, but do you know what it is, what it does, and how it can help your portraiture? In...

    10. Three Different Portraits Shot with Three Lights

      Three Different Portraits Shot with Three Lights

      Tutorial Advanced

      Wondering why you should add more lights when you like the images you get with one or two? Are you trying to figure out if you can justify the expense of...

    11. Shooting a Red Hot Chili Pepper: Flaming Food Photography

      Shooting a Red Hot Chili Pepper: Flaming Food Photography

      Tutorial Advanced

      In this tutorial, I'll show you how to do some commercial food photography and set it on fire! I'm going to take you through a step-by-step process of food...

    12. Shooting a Surprise Proposal

      Shooting a Surprise Proposal

      Tutorial Intermediate

      A few weeks ago I was called upon by an old friend to shoot him proposing to his girlfriend at an out-of-town location I had never been to before. It was a...