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What Tripod Head is Right For Me?
They're not as glamorous as lenses, but having the right one can make all the difference in the world.
B&H Photo’s December Sales Highlight Top Gear and Exclusive Daily Deals
With the holidays in full swing, B&H Photo is offering deep discounts across a range of photography and creator gear. Their ongoing promotions include top-rated lenses, creator bundles, and high-performance accessories, all capped off by the store’s Daily Deal Zone, which refreshes every 24 hours with limited-time offers. Let’s get into it! Quick Reference: Daily ... Read more
How Street Photography Helps You Feel at Home in a New City
Moving to a new city throws everything off balance. The streets feel foreign, the rhythms are unfamiliar, and even simple tasks like finding a decent coffee shop require actual effort. It takes time to build the mental map that transforms “somewhere new” into “home.” But here’s something most photographers discover by accident: picking up your ... Read more
Lensrentals Reveals Top Rented Photo & Video Gear of 2025: Canon and Sony Dominate Again
Each December, Lensrentals shares a data-driven snapshot of the most popular gear in the industry—offering not just a rental recap, but a temperature check on real-world demand from working professionals. The 2025 edition, released today, reflects a year of steady innovation, entrenched brand loyalty, and subtle but telling shifts in how photographers and filmmakers are ... Read more
Winxvideo AI Christmas Deal: AI Video/Image Enhancer with “Buy 1 Get 3 Free” Offer
As 2025 comes to a close, Digiarty Software is offering a compelling holiday promotion on its AI-powered video/image suite, Winxvideo AI. For a limited time, the company is bundling its lifetime license with three bonus tools, with no subscriptions and no recurring fees, as part of a Buy 1 Get 3 Free Christmas special. The ... Read more
Cold Weather Photography Tips | How to Defrost and Save a Frozen Camera
In this first video tutorial, we're going to talk about what to do when you get frost on your camera when you shoot at night in extremely cold weather.
Upgrade Your Editing Workflow: DxO Holiday Deals with Up to 25% Off (Code: SLRLounge)
DxO is closing out the year with one of its best promotions yet. From now through January 6, 2026, photographers can save 20% on their purchase of any two or more DxO software titles and get up to a full year of free DxO Premium Support. That means whether you’re diving into RAW editing with ... Read more
Cake Cutting Photography Tips Ideas and Inspiration
The cake cutting ceremony is one of the key moments in a wedding reception that is not without its challenges. From lighting to positioning, the proper techniques and preparation are critical to delivering consistently incredible images for your clients. In this article, we’re going to provide some cake cutting photography tips to level up your ... Read more
Honcho Review: Real-Time Photo Delivery and Sales, Powered by AI Face Recognition
Let’s be honest. If you’ve ever shot a conference or wedding with hundreds of guests, you know the actual photography is the fun and easy part. It’s in the aftermath where things get complicated: spending hours sorting through thousands of nearly identical shots, batch editing until your eyes blur, uploading everything to multiple galleries, and ... Read more
Jewish Wedding Photography Tips and Guide
Jewish wedding days are built on a number of unique traditions, and even these traditions vary within different branches of Judaism. Furthermore, some Jewish weddings only incorporate one or two traditions out of respect to the families, while others observe several. With such an array of nuances and elements, it is important that photographers know ... Read more
Flash Gel Photography for Creative and Corrective Effects
Pye
Gels can be very useful in correcting color in your image or adding a creative effect. We show you how in the following video.
Turn Any Boring Background Into A Creative Portrait Using a Gel and Two Flashes
Pye
We're going to show you how to take a gel and two flashes to turn any ordinary backdrop and create a creative portrait.
Lensbaby Releases a Color Expansion Pack for the OMNI Filter System
David Crewe
Bring color and mood into your imagery when using the Lensbaby OMNI Creative Filter System with the OMNI Color Expansion Pack. This expansion pack features an array of multi-colored films and gels, color crystals, a rainbow diffraction film, and a carrying case
Stop Shooting for Neutral ‘White-Balanced’ Light! Try This Instead.
Alice Houstons
If you ever find yourself primarily shooting white balanced, neutral light, this article will show you how using colored gels can add emotion to your photographs.
A Simple Way to Change the Color of the Sky in Camera
Trevor Dayley
Have you ever been excited to photograph someone around sunset only to discover that Mother Nature wasn’t playing nice? Instead of a beautiful sunset, you were dealt a grey drab sky as your backdrop. There is a way and it’s actually quite simple to pull off.
