How We Shot It
How to Create a Panorama with a Tilt-Shift Lens
In preparation for our upcoming Rokinon 24mm f/3.5 TS (tilt-shift) lens review, we've been shooting a few different types of scenes and testing things out. Here is a simple technique for creating seamless, quick panoramas that merge together effortlessly! (If you want to learn more about how to make a tilt-shift panorama, stay tuned and we'll have more articles up soon!)
Beverly Hills Montage Wedding Portrait – How We Shot It
In today's episode of How We Shot it we are going to talk about wedding portraits in night-time scenarios, in a dramatic outdoor hotel courtyard setting.
Tips for creating Vertical Panoramas – How We Shot It
Achieving an image such as this may be relatively easy these days, with incredibly sharp ultra-wide lenses and extremely high-resolution DSLRs at our disposal.
Using ND Filters to create Motion Blur in Bright Sun – How We Shot It
In this video, Matthew Saville describes the various methods and options available for creating a slow motion blur during bright sunny conditions. For anyone who knows the "Sunny Sixteen" rule, if your aperture is at f/16 then a perfect exposure at ISO 100 would be 1/100 sec, and a perfect exposure at ISO 400 would be 1/400 sec, and so on. However this image was created at f/13, ISO 100, and 2.0 seconds.
Golden Gate Bridge Sunset Panorama – How We Shot It
This image was captured from the observation deck / bar of the Bank of America Building in San Francisco. The view from up there is stunning, if you are ever interested in finding this perspective it is available to the public, as long as you are dressed "appropriately" for an elite (and expensive!) bar scene...
The Milky Way in Rhyolite Ghost Town – How We Shot It
Even though my full-time job is wedding photography, my photographic hobby is the polar opposite! I enjoy photographing nightscapes in the desert, the more remote the better! Here is a relatively easy-access location, Rhyolite Ghost Town, which is just outside of Death Valley National Park. I have been photographing this bank's cement skeleton now since 2005, and it never disappoints!
Nikon’s 50mm f/1.2 Lens Used For Wedding Details! – How We Shot It
Here is a rare and elusive lens for you Nikon fans today! The Nikon 50mm f/1.2 AIS is a manual focus lens, and despite it being so uncommon it is actually still in production today!
Lightning Panorama – How We Shot It
If you have ever tried to photograph lightning during the day, let me tell you it is not easy! What makes lightning so easy to photograph at night is 1.) The fact that you can very easily achieve long shutter speeds, and 2.) Lightning is usually the brightest thing in the sky at night.
US Navy Blue Angels – How We Shot It
Shooting air shows is the best situation (actually, the only) I shoot in for demonstrating the use of shutter priority mode. People often think that shutter priority is what you use to shoot fast action because you want to dictate a very fast shutter speed, when in fact most action sports photographers get the same result by simply shooting in aperture priority with their aperture wide open.
Vancouver Moonrise at Sunset – How We Shot It
Today I have a great example of "seeing the forest for the trees"... Sometimes, when something truly breathtaking happens right before your lens, you get caught up in the moment and don't see the big picture. This was one of those moments, and I almost missed it completely...
Panoramic Sunset Portrait – How We Shot It
Every sunset is different. However each year, there are a few of them that you remember forever! This was certainly one of those sunsets! As Galen Rowell once said, "You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either."
How We Produced It: Creating a Dramatic Wedding Environmental Portrait
In this Lightroom 4 Preset System tutorial, we will show how we can quickly and easily make this beautiful environmental portrait of a bride and groom's first dance at the Pelican Hills Rotunda more dramatic in Lightroom 4.
