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. How to Process Flash Photography Images Using Lightroom Classic

      How to Process Flash Photography Images Using Lightroom Classic

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Learn editing techniques that will require you to spend only a small amount of time processing your images, while still making a BIG impact on your photos.

    2. How to Use a Three-Light Setup for Portrait Photos

      How to Use a Three-Light Setup for Portrait Photos

      Tutorial Intermediate

      In this studio portrait lighting tutorial you will learn about one of the most useful lighting setups ever: three-point lighting.

    3. How to Use the Freeform View in Premiere Pro

      How to Use the Freeform View in Premiere Pro

      Tutorial Beginner

      In this lesson from David Bode's FREE Ultimate Premiere FAQ course, you'll learn how to use the Freeform view to review, organise, and prepare media for your...

    4. How to Process Raw Photos With Filmulator (Free for Windows and Linux)

      How to Process Raw Photos With Filmulator (Free for Windows and Linux)

      Tutorial Beginner

      Filmulator is an open-source raw photo editor based around the filming developing process, with a library management feature to help you organise your...

    5. Prime Lenses for Photography: Why You Might Prefer to Zoom With Your Feet

      Prime Lenses for Photography: Why You Might Prefer to Zoom With Your Feet

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you're a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In...

    6. How to Use Focal Length to Compress Elements in a Photograph

      How to Use Focal Length to Compress Elements in a Photograph

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you're a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In...

    7. Choosing a Focal Length for Portrait Photography

      Choosing a Focal Length for Portrait Photography

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you're a photographer and you’d like to know more about lenses, then you’ll love our free course, What Every Photographer Should Know About Lenses. In...

    8. A Photographer's Guide to Brightness: How to Read Lighting Intensity

      A Photographer's Guide to Brightness: How to Read Lighting Intensity

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you'd like to know more about the essential role that light plays in photography, then you’ll love our course, A Photographer's Guide to Light. In this...

    9. A Photographer's Guide to Light: Noticing Diffuse Reflection

      A Photographer's Guide to Light: Noticing Diffuse Reflection

      Tutorial Beginner

      Learn about diffuse reflections and how they work, and then you can then apply that knowledge to create better images.

    10. How to Use Polarised Reflections: A Photographer's Guide to Light

      How to Use Polarised Reflections: A Photographer's Guide to Light

      Tutorial Beginner

      Photons have an electromagnetic field that fluctuates as it moves through space. In this lesson, you’ll find out why that matters to photographers.

    11. A Photographer's Guide to Transmission: Understanding How Light Filters Through

      A Photographer's Guide to Transmission: Understanding How Light Filters Through

      Tutorial Beginner

      In this video tutorial from A Photographer's Guide to Light, you will learn the basics of light transmission.

    12. 4 One-Light Setups: Split, Broad, Short, and Profile Lighting for Portrait Photos

      4 One-Light Setups: Split, Broad, Short, and Profile Lighting for Portrait Photos

      Tutorial Intermediate

      In this lesson, you will learn about split, broad, short and profile lighting. You will learn how to use each of these techniques to bring out the best in...