0 Views ·Posted 03/16/2023
Join astro/landscape photographer Matt Hill as he shares a few simple tips to get beautiful dusk and golden-hour photos full of rich, vibrant, and accurate colors.
0:00 - Introduction
3:46 - Why Night Photographers Photograph the Sunset and Twilight
11:03 - Good Capture Leads to Good Edits
14:04 - What Color is Twilight? / Mojave Case Study
24:59 - Twilight Capture Settings
27:16 - Color Checker
29:24 - Editing in Lightroom Classic
33:13 - How to Apply Color-Checker Calibration to Photos
44:58 - Creating a Signature Method
47:42 - The Color
0 Views ·Posted 03/17/2023
Get ready to improve your photos! Matt Zefi shares 10 common landscape-photography mistakes but explains how to fix them. What mistakes have you made when taking landscape photos? How did you fix them?
0:00 - Introduction
0:38 - Mistake 1
1:07 - Mistake 2
1:30 - Mistake 3
1:56 - Mistake 4
2:18 - Mistake 5
2:39 - Mistake 6
3:11 - Mistake 7
4:02 - Mistake 8
4:33 - Mistake 9
4:55 - Mistake 10
Photographers and filmmakers of the past used to break out homemade tricks—some innovative and fun—when trying to achieve special effects to make their images stand out from the crowd. Many of us have heard of the technique of smearing petroleum jelly on a lens filter for soft-focus effects. Today, one company—Lensbaby—has brought professional-grade optical tools to the world of creative photography and videography, allowing users to create
0 Views ·Posted 09/13/2022
In this webinar, landscape photographer Sapna Reddy showcases her images and shares anecdotes and the thought processes involved with how she created them. She also discusses the specific creative choices, in the field and in post-processing, for each image and how you can apply these choices to create meaningful images.
0:00 - Introduction
2:14 - About Sapna Reddy
6:11 - What is a meaningful Photograph?
8:38 - Finding a Purpose
27:32 - Letting Go of Expectations
36:21 - Awareness of Light
40:35 - Creative Vision
44:00 - Mood
46:48 -
0 Views ·Posted 12/05/2022
When you’re photographing landscapes, it’s important to look beyond the location to showcase its magic. Canon Explorer of Light Erin Babnik shares the ways in which she utilizes all the tools at her disposal (from gear to editing) to tell the story of a location, from her own point of view.
0:00 Introduction
0:43 Overview
8:13 Looking Beyond Locations
18:35 What is a Landscape?
24:21 Five Helpful Habits
53:03 Final Thoughts
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0 Plays ·Posted 10/06/2022
It's leaf-peeping time in the northern hemisphere, when trees break into riots of color as autumn plows a path from north to south. Two of the best regions for capturing the show here in the US are across New England and along California's magnificent Sierra Nevada. To help get you up to speed when preparing for your own foliage excursions, we speak with landscape photography specialists in each of these regions—Jerry Monkman, in New England, and G. Dan Mitchell
It has probably happened to all of us—a missed photographic moment. We are photographers. We usually have a camera at the ready. But, for one reason or another, we miss a shot of a beautiful vista or a fleeting, but perfect, moment in time and we are left with nothing but the memory of the image that never was captured.
I asked my fellow B&H photographers, as well as our B&H Creative partners and affiliates, to share with us the heartbreaking story, or stories, of the photographs they have failed to capture.
0 Views ·Posted 08/08/2022
In this B&H video, National Geographic photographer and Canon Explorer of Light Keith Ladzinski shares his experiences in the field and the techniques, gear, and solutions he’s used along the way.
0:00 - Introduction
0:37 - Versatile Bag
1:15 - The Great Lakes
17:41 - Speedlights
27:56 - Panning
25:05 - Mono Heads
27:37 - Multimode
29:09 - Light Painting
30:57 - Exposure
31:41 - Split ND Filter
34:09 - Get Wide
35:57 - Get Low
40:50 - Creativity on a Budget
43:17 - Q&A
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0 Views ·Posted 08/07/2022
Join Sony Alpha Collective Member Mahesh Thapa as he shares tips, techniques, and accessories for mobile photography.
0:00 - Introduction
1:21 - About this Presentation
3:00 - Filters
10:52 - Mounts
18:46 - Tripods & Bag
28:58 - In the Field
43:19 - Q&A
52:44 - Final Thoughts
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0 Views ·Posted 08/05/2022
Landscape photographer Sapna Reddy has mastered the art of translating the emotion of beautiful scenery into a photograph. In this seminar, she explains how the visual language of photography works to create stunning images and how to go beyond the basic rules of composition with more advanced guidelines.
0:00 - Introduction
1:41 - Communicating the Visuals
6:40 - Understanding the Language of Photography
8:18 - Focal Points/Visual Elements
13:15 - Composition
32:34 - Storytelling
45:36 - In Summation/Takeaways
48:19 - More from Reddy
49:00
0 Views ·Posted 07/08/2022
From Svalbard to the South Georgia, Camille Seaman has explored and photographed the Arctic and Antarctic regions. In this presentation, she talks about her beginnings in photography, her first trip to the Arctic, National Geographic, Linblad's ship (The Resolution), and more.
0:00 - Seaman’s Art & Photography Journey
6:59 - Exploring the Arctic & Antarctic
38:00 - Q&A
48:40 - Final Thought
0 Plays ·Posted 07/21/2022
Sapna Reddy and Matt Kloskowski have more in common than colorful photos of birds in nature and soothing landscapes. In this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we investigate how their respective work lives have fueled the technical mastery that allows their creative vision to flourish. We spoke with them both as part of our continuing coverage of B&H’s
0 Plays ·Posted 07/07/2022
On this week’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we continue our coverage of the 2022 OPTIC Conference with two highly invigorating segments about exploring the world after dark.
Above photograph © Susan Magnano
Our first guest is
0 Plays ·Posted 06/09/2022
The 2022 OPTIC Outdoor, Photo/Video, Travel Imaging Conference or just “OPTIC 2022” is live and in-person again and we are excited to welcome the event’s director, David Brommer, to the program. Brommer will give us a sense of the updated conference, which after two years online is now a fully hybrid in-person and online event. Of course, we at the B
Sony ambassador Colby Brown is back with Maria Perez and Matt Zefi, from B&H, to explore the breathtaking landscapes and diverse wildlife of Ecuador’s Amazon jungle and Cotopaxi Volcano. Perez explains: “We decided to head to Ecuador because we wanted to focus on the evolution from landscape to wildlife photography. After all, you should always be ready to see an awesome animal while shooting beautiful landscapes.”
The YouTube series will cover a variety of important topics when embarking on an adventure of such magnitude, including