Types of Photography

Learn about the different types of photography, from studio to portrait and from still life to street photography. Follow tutorials in a range of genres.

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How to Photograph Historic Churches, Mosques, Temples, and Holy Buildings

Tutorial • Beginner

Every town and city has a rich and eventful past that helps define its character. Evidence of this local flavour of life—that particular way of living—is in...

Simon Bray • 17 Jul 2017
Street

Autofocus is Overrated: How to Hyperfocal Focus

Tutorial • Advanced

Just because your camera can focus for you doesn't mean you should let it do everything. When you want to maximise depth of field, you need to know how to...

Harry Guinness • 6 Jul 2017
Types of Photography

A Quick History of Color Photography (for Photographers)

Tutorial • Beginner

A practical process was available for color photography by the 1930s, but it took decades for color images to be fully accepted by newspapers and the fine...

Amy Touchette • 8 Jun 2017
Social Media

How to Create a Short How-to Video Tutorial for Instagram

Tutorial • Beginner

Share your passions with Instagram Stories and learn how to make creative tutorials for your followers.

Melody Nieves • 30 May 2017
Drones & Rigs

5 Camera Settings for the Best Drone Video Footage

Tutorial • Beginner

In this lesson we are going to learn about the best settings for your aerial drone camera. We will also look at how you can avoid common problems with aerial...

Charles Yeager • 29 May 2017
Types of Photography

Berlin Modern: Yva's Leading Creativity

Tutorial • Beginner

In the 1920s and 1930s, Yva ran a flourishing studio in Berlin with several trainee employees, among them Helmut Newton. Her photographs were published in...

Jackson Couse • 8 Mar 2017
History of Photography

Women in Photography: a Story Still Being Written

Tutorial • Beginner

The story of women in photography is still a work in progress. It’s not a fairy tale but it’s also not a tragedy. In celebration of International Women’s...

Dawn Oosterhoff • 8 Mar 2017
Types of Photography

Myriam Abdelaziz: Passion, Presence, and Creative Adaptation

Tutorial • Beginner

Photographer Myriam Abdelaziz is a cultural chameleon, shaped by living in different places, able to slip between worlds and identities as the situation...

Dawn Oosterhoff • 8 Mar 2017
Street

It's About People! Tina Modotti's Socially Engaged Photography

Tutorial • Beginner

On many levels, Tina Modotti was a photographer of substance. She also, obviously, had a great style!

Jackson Couse • 7 Mar 2017
Smartphones

Top 5 Tools for Smartphone Video Journalism

Tutorial • Beginner

Smartphones are the Swiss Army knives of mobile journalism. But they're limited when it comes to capturing video. Here are 5 tools every mobile journalist...

Cindy Burgess • 22 Feb 2017
Portrait Retouching

Historical Context, Contemporary Value: Old Photos as Cultural Documents

Tutorial • Beginner

Why does knowing something about your archive photograph matter? Here we'll look at some of the reasons and how you can find out about your own archive images.

Marie Gardiner • 28 Jan 2017
Portrait Retouching

Why Do We Restore Old Photographs?

Tutorial • Beginner

In a broader context, we usually see photographs that have been preserved and restored from important moments in history. Hindsight's a wonderful thing, and...

Marie Gardiner • 24 Jan 2017