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Shopping for photographers can be tough. Here’s a list of 30 gift ideas to make it a little easier. Everything is covered – from essential gear such as batteries and lens filters to the finer things in life, like trampolines and walkie talkies. Und...
Aug 13, Episode 352 Camera, Photography
Everything you need to know about shooting video for a cinemagraph style GIF...
See how to make your own! This gives a really cool wide angle effect and can be done very easily in a few simple steps....
RAW files give you much more control over color and exposure. See how to edit and save your images edited as a RAW file before you bring it into photoshop...
Mar 05, Episode 248 Camera, Photography
Today we go over The Best and Worst Focal Lengths for Portraits. Focal Lengths From 16-200mm Why Focal Length is Important Getting a good portrait is not all about gear, but it is important to know what a difference using the right focal length can make. In g...
This chart shows how much detail you are getting in the light and dark areas, see how to read it accurately to make sure you're getting the right exposure....
How to take AMAZING Bokeh Photos
This week's contest is so perfect for the holidays. We are gathering together our best Bokeh Photos, and I will show you some great ways to apply them to your images to give them a magical feel. This time of year you will be...
Nov 09, Episode 170 Camera, Photography
There was such a great response to yesterday's episode on cameras, and a lot of people have mentioned lenses, so I thought this episode would help out a lot....
We are starting a new mini series on Phlearn, things you can do NOW to change your game FOREVER. These are the big step that I took during my career that have brought me the biggest gain. I hope they will do the same for you....
For an unexpected twist this week we decided to review the new announcement of the Canon 1D X. We will continue with community week as scheduled tomorrow, but we have to change a bit when the big guys throw us for a loop by releasing a camera before we were ex...
These are my tips, and I have shot about 10 weddings, making me not the worlds best source of information. I am really looking forward to reading all of your tips on how to photograph a wedding successfully!...
Welcome to the 4th of July! We are celebrating with some fireworks. To photograph fireworks, there are a couple of tricks. First we lock our focus to infinity, so we don't have any focus issues in the dark. From there we want to make sure everything is in fram...
Today we are going over a very basic way to do a levitation shoot. Jumping. This is really easy and can give some great results with or without some photoshop....
This short episode is devoted to a remarkable app called Photosynth :)...
Love from New Orleans!
Today we are going over taking a self portrait ourdoors, with a flip. We talk about what to do when you don't have anything to put your tripod (gorillapod) on. We are using pocketwizards to trigger the shutter....
Avery is home from Mexico, and brought back cheer with her! We are really excited about some new changes we are making, with our aim being to serve you better....
Alright all you phlearnaholics, it is time for you to test your skills writing with light! In this episode we go over the proper camera settings and what you need to be able to do this....
The 50mm 1.4 lens is awesome, so awesome in fact, it deserves it's own episode. Lets break this thing down.
50mm - This is the focal length, a great length for both cropped sensor and full frame alike, a nice "normal" focal length, not wide or tele....
Light painting is a really fun way to play around with photography. The concept is relatively simple, use a long shutter speed in an environment with little light. During your long exposure, "paint" light on anything you want to. This can be done with a flashl...
Today we take a trip outdoors to go over using the tethered capture feature in Adobe Lightroom 3. We use this on most of our photo shoots to help out with focus, exposure and more. For a little added Phun, we put a pillow under Aaron's shirt to make him look a...




















