Photo Technique

Latest about Photo Technique

Future

Cheat sheet: What is white balance in photography?

By Lauren Scott published

Cheat sheet White balance in digital photography means recording natural colors so that your image look correct – the diagram below shows you how white balance presets fit in

Cheat sheet
DxO Nik Collection 8 Analog Efex paper textures screenshot

DxO brings raft of updates to PhotoLab 9, PureRAW 5, and Nik Collection 8

By Mike Harris published

News Improved AI masking, a whole new non-destructive workflow, and extra textures all feature in bumper updates across three of DxO’s mainline editing programs

News
Harlowe Max Air 40 lifestyle image in front of mountain landscape

Harlowe Max Air 40 launched: retro-cool, travel-friendly, constant LED light

By Mike Harris published

News Harlowe’s travel-friendly successor is a thinner and more powerful solution for content creators on the go

News
Harlowe Pro 300 Spectra with barn doors attached

Harlowe Pro 300 Spectra launched: this pro-grade LED offers 5.4x more RGB power than other 300W lights

By Mike Harris published

News The next generation of Harlowe’s Professional constant LED light boasts the ability to outperform 300W and some 600W offerings

News
Affinity Studio GIF showing blur tool

Affinity Photo is now FREE for everyone as the editing software is reborn as Affinity Studio!

By Mike Harris published

News Canva launches Affinity Studio, pulling the entire Affinity software suite into one program amidst a bold new redesign and a free-for-all model

5 Comments
News
black and white fine-art architectural image

These fill the frame photography examples will help elevate your frame-filling potential

By Mike Harris published

Features My fill the frame photography examples will help you to understand why this seemingly simple compositional technique can be so effective

Features
Man sitting on a staircase with his head in his hands, with the shadow of a ghost haunting him on the wall next to him

Are you afraid of the dark? Use supplemental light, so you’re not at the mercy of your environment!

By James Artaius published

Sponsor Content Created With MPB

Shooting in natural light is great, but you shouldn’t be a slave to environmental conditions – use supplemental light to supercharge your shoots

FUJIFILM GFX100 II on a purple gradient with a question mark over the sensor

Test your photography knowledge in my fiendish multiple-choice quiz!

By Mike Harris published

Quiz If you know a little bit about half-frame cameras, Lee Miller, and the Pirelli Calendar, what are you waiting for? Test your metal in my photography general knowledge quiz #11

Quiz
Flamingo photographed against a dark background to create low-key effect

“I used this old-school exposure trick to make these flamingos look like they were photographed in a studio!”

By Peter Travers published

How to Learn this simple low-key photography technique for capturing striking shots of wildlife outside on sunny winter days

How to
Singer-actor Frank Sinatra turns cameraman for the Frazier-Ali fight, March 8, and national magazine (life) featured his photos in their next issue. Singer-actor-photographer Sinatra has announced his planned retirement from Show Biz, but now that he's achieved success in three fields, why not four? He says he'll probably try his hand at writing.

Test your photography general knowledge in my cam-tastic quiz!

By Mike Harris published

Quiz What’s the Rat Pack, 8K video, and hyperfocal distance got in common? They’re all featured in my photography general knowledge quiz #10

Quiz
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Archives