Photographing

Master the fundamentals of photography, including exposure, composition, and working with light to capture great images.

Getting started with Photographing

  • How to Use Focal Length to Compress Elements in a Photograph

    How to Use Focal Length to Compress Elements in a Photograph

    Marie Gardiner
  • A Photographer's Guide to Light: Noticing Diffuse Reflection

    A Photographer's Guide to Light: Noticing Diffuse Reflection

    Marie Gardiner
  • How to Adjust the Shadows in Photos Using Lightroom Classic

    How to Adjust the Shadows in Photos Using Lightroom Classic

    Jamie Evan
  • All Photographing tutorials:

    1. Everyday Images: Making Ordinary Pictures into Extraordinary Photography

      Everyday Images: Making Ordinary Pictures into Extraordinary Photography

      Tutorial Beginner

      How often have you experienced the following? A friend excitedly invites you to view her latest set of photographs. You sit in front of the computer,...

    2. Getting Gorgeous Shots From Plane Windows

      Getting Gorgeous Shots From Plane Windows

      Tutorial Beginner

      They say that half the fun is getting there. What better time to start shooting photos of your holiday than on the airplane shuttling you to your adventure....

    3. Quick Tip: 5 Top Tips to Get Started with Street Photography

      Quick Tip: 5 Top Tips to Get Started with Street Photography

      Tutorial Beginner

      Street photography is a means of capturing society in the moment, a chance to document life as we know it, freezing human actions and reactions to the world...

    4. Shooting & Editing a High Speed Fruity Water Splash

      Shooting & Editing a High Speed Fruity Water Splash

      Tutorial Beginner

      Every two weeks, we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in December of...

    5. Travel Photography Mistakes to Avoid

      Travel Photography Mistakes to Avoid

      Tutorial Beginner

      Traveling to distant lands, or even around your own country, can be an exciting time many want to capture with a camera. But most of us know the dread that...

    6. More Than 60 Marvelous Medium-Format Photos

      More Than 60 Marvelous Medium-Format Photos

      Tutorial Beginner

      As the world around us turns digital, it's reassuring to know there are still plenty of people out there embracing film photography. With the surge in...

    7. Video for Photographers Part 1: Shot Types and Moving the Camera

      Video for Photographers Part 1: Shot Types and Moving the Camera

      Tutorial Beginner

      With the growing number of DSLRs that shoot video, we are launching a three-part series to help you adapt your photography skills to video production. Today,...

    8. 50 Super Surreal Photographs

      50 Super Surreal Photographs

      Tutorial Beginner

      Today, we look at some of the most biazarre and unreal photos ever taken. Surreal means have the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream. It is a very...

    9. 10 Tips on Creative Car Photography

      10 Tips on Creative Car Photography

      Tutorial Beginner

      If you've ever tried photographing a car, you'll know that it's often not as easy as first presumed. Although it can be simple enough to capture a clear and...

    10. Film Development with Coffee and Vitamin C - Lomography Tipster

      Film Development with Coffee and Vitamin C - Lomography Tipster

      Tutorial Beginner

      Once a month, we'll be bringing you a tipster from Lomography.com. Their ever-growing database of film knowledge offers trick, tips and techniques that often...

    11. The Ultimate Guide to Stunning Dance Photography

      The Ultimate Guide to Stunning Dance Photography

      Tutorial Intermediate

      Every two weeks, we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in October of...

    12. A Beginner's Guide to Film Photography

      A Beginner's Guide to Film Photography

      Tutorial Beginner

      It was only about 15 years ago that camera manufacturers brought us the dawn of digital photography. Rumors spread that film was dead. Although the majority...