If you’ve purchased a digital camera in the last decade than you are very familiar with the megapixel-count, and how much of a selling-point it has become. But are megapixels…
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ISO, or International Standards Organization, affects the amount of light that hits the image sensor in the camera. In the film days, ISO used to be a measure of the film…
Image stabilization has been around for quite a while, but it’s only the newer “optical image stabilization,” or, OIS, that adjusts for shakiness caused by camera movement. OIS reacts to…
Have you ever wondered why an old television or computer monitor has trouble displaying high definition footage, even if that monitor has enough pixels to correctly display it? Well in a…
Videographer Bernardo Bacalhau took an 8-day trip through Morocco with his DJI Phantom 3 Pro and captured some stellar footage. You can check out more of Bernardo’s work on his Instagram….
Does anyone honestly know how to correctly wrap cables and cords? Luckily someone does, and they were happy enough to share the process of “over and under” cable wrapping with…
Alongside aperture and ISO, shutter speed is one of the three key factors that determines how your photographs will look. While many things in photography can be confusing and counter-intuitive,…
Whether we’re sending a cell-phone photo to a friend or we’re converting our RAW files, we have all used JPEG files before. But what is a JPEG file actually good…
Aperture is one of the most important technical aspects of photography, and being able to understand at least the basics of it will provide a photographer with a working knowledge…
Let’s be honest, you don’t really know how the image sensor in your camera works – but that’s okay because most people don’t! Not to fear, the great people over at…
Have you ever wondered how much more light an f/1.4 aperture lets in than an f/2.8 aperture? Well the answer might surprise you, because while f/1.4 might seem to be half the…
When you’re setting up a camera trap in the Amazon Rainforest there a lot of factors to consider: Where to set it up? Is the gear rainproofed? Is it safe…
Photographer Stephen Wilkes has an incredible style in which he takes thousands of images from a single, fixed location over the period of a day or two and combines them…
Professional climber, photographer and National Geographic Contributor Jimmy Chin recently climbed 1 World Trade Center equipped with his own still camera and a 360 degree video camera, providing an incredible…
What is a National Park? National Geographic asked six photographers to capture Yellowstone in a way that it hadn’t been before, which is quite an amazing challenge considering just how…
The Cincinnati Zoo has recently been in the news for a sad encounter between a 4-year-old, a 450-pound gorilla and a rifle, but it shouldn’t for a moment make people forget…
The brilliant minds at NOM Creative, LLC have released another fun video and this time they give a full-time and a fake photographer the same equipment and have them perform the same…
The largest company in the world has struck again on our emotions, this time with a new ad for Mother’s Day. The leader in technology innovation and tear-jerking commercials has…
Videographer Paul Trillo, the same person behind “The Irrational Fear of Nothing” video, recently released a fun video called Chromaticity, which features drones flying over the water while attached with smoke…
There are so many pictures of dogs out there, but not many pictures by dogs. Well Pedigree Spain and Saatchi & Saatchi have created a vest for dogs that allows them…
In the first installment of Profoto’s Icon video series, the company choose to interview one of photography’s greatest artists and documentarian, Mary Ellen Mark. Mary Ellen Mark is known for her…
You know that feeling when a DJI Phantom drone crashes through your window and rams into your head? Well David Perel unfortunately knows that feeling very well.. Someone was attempting…
What would you risk to get the perfect shot? Would you risk having your head removed from your body? If you answered yes, then you might understand the motives behind…
Photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia created a stunning short film called “The Old New World” in which old black and white photos from the early 1900’s were animated and…
Filmmaker Matel came up with a great idea for a creative time-lapse video. By placing time-lapse footage of the same scene in London at daytime and nighttime next to each other, he…
All the photographer wanted to do was snap some photos, but the cutest of baby giant panda bears wouldn’t let that happen. The photographer was attacked by the panda bear,…
In this video by The Nerdwriter, Ansel Adams is portrayed as a photographer who began his career simply snapping photos without any real technique, something that the narrator points out…
Join Serge Remelli in his video “On the Trail of Ansel Adams: Shooting Yosemite El Capitan” as he follows the trail Ansel Adams took through Yosemite National Park. Remelli discusses what…
Time-lapse is not as easy as it looks. Sure, all you have to do is mount a camera on a stand and let it periodically shoot photos, but to have…
You hear all the time about the comparisons between the power of the human brain and the power of supercomputers, but what about the comparison between the human eye and…
The iMom from Ariel Martin on Vimeo. Technology has always had an unprecedented impact on society, allowing us to accomplish tasks quicker and understand the world better. But while technology may…
Nikon Ambassador and past Summit Instructor Joe McNally recently turned Domenick European Car Repair, Inc into his own personal studio in this new project, Joe McNally Garage Guys. McNally is able…
In his latest Two-Minute Tips video, David Bergman argues that making prints for clients goes a very long way; a heck of a lot farther than just posting your client’s…
Since everyone has a camera in their pocket these days, the distinction between being a photographer and being an artist is more important and prevalent than it has ever been….
On March 1, DJI released the Phantom 4 camera drone, the successor to the widely popular Phantom 3. The Phantom 4 is a highly intelligent drone that can literally fly…
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can teach dogs to be studio photographers….. At least you can in Japan, where a few dogs were highlighted in…
The Science Channel‘s show How It’s Made recently showed how camera tripods are manufactured. In the clip, we get a tour of a Manfrotto tripod factory. The tour starts from when…
Cambits is a modular camera being developed by scientists at Columbia Engineering’s Computer Vision Laboratory. It is a set of…
“If you do these seven things, you’re going to lose your photo and video clients, I guarantee it.” Photographer Jay P. Morgan from The Slanted Lens made this short video…
Film and music lovers rejoice! OK Go, the pop band notably known for their creative, heavily-choreographed music videos, has just done it again with their video for “Upside Down &…
Photos/Video by TimeSlice Films. Shooting a portrait on a still-camera will produce a two-dimensional image. Whether you are the Peter Hurley of portraits or a rookie, your picture will come out…
The rock star of music photography, Danny Clinch, was recently interviewed by Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes. He captured several styles of photographs, from journalistic photos to very precisely created…
“Run Baby Run” is a new video by Eran Amir that shows a 3D-printed baby running through different locations, and it was entirely captured in camera with no green screen…
The “bullet time” effect in video can make for a very interesting visual, just ask Keanu Reeves in The Matrix when he dodges a speeding bullet. Usually this visual technique…
GoPro has just released another video with footage captured with its not-yet-announced Karma drone. This time the footage is of freestyle skier Bobby Brown and some of his friends at Aspen…
Elite sports and portrait photographer, Westcott Pro, and Summit Workshops and Summit Online instructor Matt Hernandez offers some fantastic lighting tips in this F. J Westcott video on capturing professional…
Peter Lik is known for being one of the most financially successful photographers of all time. He reportedly sold his photograph Ghost for a record $6.5 million, and has also reportedly…
Ultra-long telephoto lenses aren’t just used to see very far away, they can cause distortion to create really creative and dramatic shots. In the movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a…
