How To Fix Colour Casts With Neutral Density Long Exposures

Anybody who’s ever used strong neutral density filters knows about colour casts. Whether it’s the B+W 10 Stop or the Lee Big Stopper, they’re just inevitable. Each filter presents a different colour cast. The same filter can also offer a different colour cast on different camera bodies. The typical way to deal with it is to play around with your white balance to try and correct for it. Without a good reference, though, shifting the white balance to fix it in post can be a bit of a crap shoot....

January 30, 2023 · 2 min · 341 words · Theodore Sanchez

How To Make A Netflix Style Doc About Anything No Matter How Surreal

Even if you’re not a Netflix user, you’ve seen this style of documentary. It’s pretty common these days outside of Netflix, too and often used for late night crime documentaries. The crime in the case of this example is that of the stolen jam on toast! Or, “jelly” on toast, for the Americans. This hilarious tutorial video is brought to you by Paul E.T. and it’s a simple breakdown of how you can light, shoot and edit this style of documentary....

January 30, 2023 · 2 min · 279 words · Scott Gray

How To Quickly And Easily Scan Negative Film With Your Digital Camera And A Copy Stand

Scanning film is one of the biggest issues with shooting film today. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult, it’s just a pain because most of us tend to do it so little. Maybe a roll or two every few weeks. Pulling out the scanner and hooking it up can be a chore, so we put it off and just never get around to it. I’ve got plenty of rolls here that have been developed but not scanned yet....

January 30, 2023 · 3 min · 450 words · Jennifer Caldwell

How Would A Dancer Tackle Household Chores This Photographer Shows Us In His Amusing Portrait Project

I don’t know about you, but whenever I’m at home doing the dishes, I just feel so clumsy and uncoordinated. Surely a dancer would make these household chores look beautiful and effortless! If you’re like me and wonder how a ballet dancer might tackle the ironing or vacuuming, then look no further. Photographer Eric Raeber has spent the best part of three years photographing dancers doing mundane tasks like washing the dishes or mowing the er living room in an amusing new photo book series called “Dancers at Home“....

January 30, 2023 · 4 min · 775 words · Joshua Adams

Hubble James Webb No These Space Photos Are Gasoline Puddles On A Parking Lot

When you want to take space photos, you should point your camera and telescope up. Or should you? If you know where to look, galaxy-like formations can even be anywhere, and Finnish photographer Juha Tanhua proves it in this fantastic photo series. “Hubble? No! James Webb? No!” is a collection of photos that appear to show distant galaxies. But instead of looking up into the sky, Juha pointed his camera to gasoline stains on the local parking lot....

January 30, 2023 · 3 min · 484 words · Christopher Fletcher
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