By Marius Waldal on February 28, 2010
DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone takes remote controlling your camera to a whole new dimension! Read my review of this cool iPhone app here.
Posted in Featured, Software | Tagged app, iphone, remote
By jcoterhals on February 26, 2010
Here’s the second part of the guest post to get you started with flash. Enjoy!
Posted in Featured, Tips | Tagged camera mode, flash, Tips
By jcoterhals on February 18, 2010
Avoiding flash because you’re not understanding exactly how and when to use it? Think that flash always results in harsh light and heavy unflattering shadows? We beg to differ! Get tips and tricks in this two-part series on flash photography!
Posted in Featured, Tips | Tagged camera mode, flash, Tips
By Marius Waldal on February 14, 2010
As a former Olympic luge athlete, I had to write this post. Sorry for the off-topic…
Posted in Featured, Off-topic | Tagged accident, death, luge, Nodar Kumaritashvili, olympics, vancouver, whistler
By Marius Waldal on February 2, 2010
Learning how to achieve a “correct” exposure is essential. In this first article on photography basics, I will cover one of the three corners on the exposure triangle: aperture.
Posted in Basics, Featured | Tagged aperture, Basics, bokeh, depth-of-field, DOF, exposure, f-numbers, f-stop, fast lens, technical, triangle
By Christian Mohn on January 22, 2010
In this interesting guest post, Christian Mohn shares his experiences in completing a 365 Days project on Flickr. Have a look and see if you’re inspired yourself!
Posted in Featured, Inspiration | Tagged 365 days, flickr, project, Tips
By Marius Waldal on January 20, 2010
Hopefully, you’ve read my introductory article on digital black & white photography. Here are 20 photos to boost your inspiration!
Posted in Featured, Portraiture, Software, Tips | Tagged b&w, black & white, Inspiration, monochrome, portraits
By Marius Waldal on January 15, 2010
Doing self-portraits is fun and instructive. You may have tried it or you may have done it often. But how about doing it every week for a whole year?
Posted in Featured, Portraiture | Tagged 52 weeks, flickr, self-portraits, Tips
By Marius Waldal on January 11, 2010
Following up the color theory article, this article discusses how different light sources affect color in photography. Learn the characteristics of various light sources and how you might deal with their peculiarities.
Posted in Featured, Reference | Tagged color, Composition, fluorescent, incandescent, light, light sources, mercury, sodium, street lights
By Marius Waldal on December 19, 2009
The world of (or rather IN) black & white is wonderful and exciting. In this introductory article you will learn some of the basics of digital black & white photography, and hopefully be inspired to learn more!
Posted in Featured, Reference | Tagged b&w, black & white, introduction, monochrome
By Marius Waldal on December 11, 2009
As the holidays are moving closer, I have gathered a few tips that can help improve your Christmas photos. So merry Christmas, and merry shooting!
Posted in Featured, Tips | Tagged bokeh, christmas, Composition, Creative vision, Tips
By Marius Waldal on December 9, 2009
In this tutorial I will show you how to cross-process a photo digitally, and also go beyond that and make the photo look like it was shot using a LOMO camera.
Posted in Featured, Post-processing | Tagged cross-processing, howto, lomo, photoshop, Post-processing, tutorial
By Marius Waldal on December 4, 2009
Since you’re a decent photographer, your friends have asked you to take pictures in their wedding. Or maybe you haven’t been asked, but you still want to! Learn how to make those “documentation” photos more interesting.
Posted in Featured, Tips | Tagged Creative vision, wedding
By Marius Waldal on November 26, 2009
Selective colors can offer a nice twist on certain black & white photos. They can be beautiful to look at and fun to make! Learn how in this article.
Posted in Featured, Post-processing | Tagged howto, photography, photoshop, Post-processing, selective color, tutorial
By Marius Waldal on October 30, 2009
Being able to see interesting, beautiful or extraordinary scenes is an ability that can and should be developed as a skill in its own right. In this article I give you some tips on how you can improve your awareness.
Posted in Creative vision, Featured | Tagged awareness, Composition, Creative vision, design
By Marius Waldal on October 30, 2009
Bokeh can be an important subordinate part of a photo, or even the actual subject of a photo. Using it consciously will enable you to enhance the overall look of your scenes.
Get a few tips in this article!
Posted in Composition | Tagged bokeh, Composition, photography
By Marius Waldal on October 30, 2009
If you want to use colors successfully in your photos, you should learn some basic color theory. Colors can be a fantastic compositional tool. But without any knowledge of how colors affect us, you risk taking visually unpleasing photos because of bad color combinations.
Posted in Featured, Reference | Tagged brightness, color, Composition, hue, photography, primer, saturation
By Marius Waldal on October 28, 2009
Sometimes, there are elements in your scene that will somehow affect the way viewers perceive a photo. Sometimes it will even reduce the quality of that photo. Often, this can be avoided with a little arranging before shooting.
Posted in Composition | Tagged Composition
By Marius Waldal on October 28, 2009
Panning is a great way of incurring a sense of speed and motion in your photos. In this article you will learn what panning is, and get a few tips on when and how to do it.
Posted in Composition | Tagged motion blur, panning