Hot Photography How-Tos — Page 12 of 13 « Photography

How To: Take a nude portrait

The human body is art, and a nude portrait is a great way to capture its details and nuances.

How To: Do photo studio lighting yourself

Create a larger, more sophisticated studio photography lighting setup but still use simple materials

How To: Equip your photo studio

This is a practical introduction to the photo equipment used in professional photography studios. Part 1 of 2 - How to Equip your photo studio.

How To: Take in the professional photographer's grip kit

What do professionals take on a photo shoot besides photo equipment? Find out by watching this video.

How To: Understand camera meters and histograms

Get better exposures by understanding how your camera's light meter sees a scene, and how this relates to histograms.

How To: Set up a photo studio for product lighting

Use inexpensive materials to create your own photographic studio equipment for product photography. The DIY set up is simple and useful.

How To: Light tabletop glass in studio photography

This video presents tips for basic studio photography lighting for glass objects.

How To: Convert a juice box into a pinhole camera

Make your own pinhole camera from a juice box! A juice box, yes, that's right. Guaranteed to outlast any digital camera! Unless you sit on it, of course.

How To: Make a cheap 35mm style pinhole camera

This is one of my favorite projects, a wide format pinhole camera that uses 35mm film and is made from $10 in crafts store items.

How To: Use three point lighting for photography

Learn how to light a subject for photography, filming, or animation.

How To: Load 600 film into a Polaroid SX-70 camera

Loading 600 film into a Polaroid SX-70 polaroid camera.

How To: Create time lapse photography

There are several ways to do time lapse photography, my favorite involves using a digital still camera and a controller. Once the photos are taken, I demonstrate how to to stitch the photos together into a finished movie. You could also use a digital video camera with controlling software to do time lapse.

How To: Shoot commercial photography

Learn the best kept secrets of photography professionals so you can take your own great commercial pictures.

How To: Shoot wedding photography

Lean the best kept secrets of professional photographers.

How To: Shoot fashion photography

Learn the best kept secrets of professional photographers.

How To: Make 2D Pics Look Like 3D Objects Using This Optical Illusion Camera Trick

How do you make a plastic bottle sit on top of a Rubik's Cube without a Rubik's Cube? It may seem like a brain teaser, but it's more like something you would see in an Escher drawing. An optical illusion. A three-dimensional world trapped in a two-dimensional image, which is exactly what's going on in this Rubik's Cube illusion.

How To: Take perfect sunsets with your camera

Check out these tips on how to take perfect sunsets with your camera.

How To: Blur backgrounds on portraits

Learn how to use your camera (including how to choose an aperture setting) for blurring the background of portraits.

How To: Blur water for a dreamy effect

Want to enhance your photography? Check out how to blur water for a dreamy effect in your photographs.

How To: Make a polaroid pinhole camera

Interested in making a pinhole camera out of an old polaroid packfilm camera? This will give you instant pinhole photos rather than waiting for a lab to process the film.

How To: Convert a Super Wide Polaroid camera into a pinhole

Watch this video and learn how to convert a Super Wide Polaroid camera into a pinhole camera. This conversion will also work for super shooter and colorpack cameras. Strip down the camera, "chop" the body and prep to recap for a super wide angle pinhole camera. This project works for cameras that accept 3.25 x 4.25 polaroid and fujifilm instant pack films.

How To: Take pictures in bright sunlight

Transform bright light from a foe to a friend with a simple polarizing filter.

How To: Digitally handcolor or tint a black and white photo

Hand coloring black and white photographs was a common process prior to the advent of color photography and created a unique visual aesthetic. This video demonstrates how to digitally create this style for digital black and white photography.

How To: Make a Polaroid transfer

Photography 101 podcast discusses alternative processes and demonstrates how to do Polaroid transfers onto watercolor paper.

How To: Do infrared photography

Watch this Photo 101 podcast on how to do infrared photography.

How To: Make a Physiogram & photograph it

The Photo 101 podcast explains how to make Physiograms with a flashlight & photograph it.

How To: Hand color black & white photographs

Watch this video to learn how to traditionally hand-color silver gelatin black and white photographs.

How To: Fake UFO photographs

The best evidence that UFOs represent spacecraft from other worlds consists of grainy photographs, blurry videos, and anecdotes about things that go bump in the night. In this episode Michael Shermer shows how easy it is to fake UFO photographs, enlisting the help of children and disposable cameras to create convincing photographic evidence that even fooled experts!

How To: Choose the aperture setting on your camera

This video shows you step by step how to choose the aperture to produce drastically different effects. The is the opening by which light enters your camera.

How To: Set up a pocket wizard system and use mixed lighting

Mark Wallace shows how to set up a pocket wizard system and use mixed lighting for photography.

How To: Use lighting in a three part set up for photography

Mark Wallace explains how to use basic lighting principles and lighting equipment to set up a three light set up.

How To: Use lighting equipment for photography

Mark Wallace explains the use of lighting equipment (grip, light modifiers, and light sources). Part 1 of 3 - How to Use lighting equipment for photography.

How To: Use a light meter

Mark Wallace explains how to use a light meter, how it works (incident and reflective meters), and what type to purchase. Use this for still or motion cameras.

How To: Use the basic principles of lighting in photography

Mark Wallace explains the basic principles of light and how it relates to photography.

How To: Use flash photography

Mark Wallace explains shutter speed, sync speed, and key shifting by explaining basic flash photography.

How To: Set up butterfly lighting for photography

Mark Wallace explains how to set up butterfly lighting (AKA Glamour Lighting; AKA Paramount Lighting)with three light sources. This video shows a nice soft lighting underneath the nose. Used if you want to create a strong powerful look, or if your subject has strong cheekbones or jawline. This type of lighting was used in the filming of "Sin City".