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
    1. How to Perfectly Capture a Plate of Food With Spot Lighting

      How to Perfectly Capture a Plate of Food With Spot Lighting

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Since one of the most important aspects of photography is how to control your lighting, today I'll be explaining how to perfectly light a scene for a warm,...

    2. How, When, and Why to Use a Polarizing Filter

      How, When, and Why to Use a Polarizing Filter

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Polarization filters are specially adapted glass that, when turned at an angle to a light source, will reduce glare from reflected surfaces. The most...

    3. Quick Tip: Never Trust Your Hard Drive!

      Quick Tip: Never Trust Your Hard Drive!

      Tutorial Beginner

      Whether or not you've already learned this lesson the hard way, appreciating that your hard drive isn't going to last forever is an important thing to...

    4. 13 Steps for Shooting the Perfect Water Droplet

      13 Steps for Shooting the Perfect Water Droplet

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Photos of water droplets aren't hard to come by. Flickr is littered with them and although some might look impressive, they all seem to have very similar...

    5. Quick Tip: Look Out for Simple Gadgets

      Quick Tip: Look Out for Simple Gadgets

      Tutorial Beginner

      We're starting a new regular feature today - Quick Tips. These will be posted twice a week, and will give you a quick piece of photography advice,...

    6. How to Perfectly Capture the Rise of a Full Moon

      How to Perfectly Capture the Rise of a Full Moon

      Tutorial Beginner

      The full moon. Steeped in legend and myth, a full, orange moon rising from the horizon has sparked the imagination of humans for millennia. For...

    7. Achieve Beautiful Landscape Photos with a Neutral Density Filter

      Achieve Beautiful Landscape Photos with a Neutral Density Filter

      Tutorial Beginner

      One of the most useful pieces of kit that you can own is a set of Neutral Density Graduated Filters. They can rescue a landscape image which would otherwise...

    8. The Ultimate Guide to Create Your Own 35mm Pinhole Camera

      The Ultimate Guide to Create Your Own 35mm Pinhole Camera

      Tutorial Beginner

      Why spend $3,000 on the newest and greatest camera when you can make one at home and at the same time participate in a centuries old tradition of image...

    9. Recreating a Professional Studio Lighting Effect

      Recreating a Professional Studio Lighting Effect

      Tutorial Beginner

      There is little doubt that studio photography is very popular - it's just a shame that it is such an expensive hobby! Despite the high costs of a full studio...

    10. Getting Phenomenal Nature Shots With a Wide Angle Lens

      Getting Phenomenal Nature Shots With a Wide Angle Lens

      Tutorial Beginner

      Wide-angle lenses do a number of things very well - one of them is the ability to keep near and far objects in focus, and present the landscape in a striking...

    11. A Beginner's Guide to Lumen Printing

      A Beginner's Guide to Lumen Printing

      Tutorial Beginner

      In this tutorial, I will be introducing an unconventional way of printing known as "lumen printing". "Lumen" is understood as the projection of light...

    12. Taking Amazing Studio Portraits On a Tight Budget

      Taking Amazing Studio Portraits On a Tight Budget

      Tutorial Beginner

      So there I was in my socks, standing on a milk crate with a beautiful half-naked woman lying motionless on a painter's tarp in the middle of by bedroom...