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Great Food Photo Tips from the CIA's own Superstar Photographer

Do you want to get the perfect food shot? These tips will help everyone from the foodie Instagram-er to the up and coming food photographer. Learn about correct lighting, angles, and what backgrounds make food pop.

How to Create 'Accidental Renaissance' Photos: Light and Composition

The power of the right lighting and perfect composition.

Food Photography: How to Take Mouth Watering Shots of Food

How do you photograph food and get such great results? Read on for our top food photography tips - but beware... this post will make you hungry!

7 Tips For Mouth-Watering Food Shots

See how Alpha Imaging Collective member Jessica Hirsch, the wildly-successful Instagram food & travel photographer, makes lunch look so good!

Take Tastier Food Photos With These Professional Tips

Go ahead and play with your food to learn more about lighting, composition and photo magic.

Film Lighting Techniques and Tips

In this guide, we will walk you through the basics of film lighting and how you can place lights to get the right look for your frames. We’ve also included some pro tips at the end of the guide to help you become a master cinematographer in no time.

Lighting Techniques of the Celebrity Portrait Photographer

Learn how to tap into your own creativity to establish your own style as photographer Jerry Avenaim explains the techniques he uses to create his images.

Macro photography lighting tips

Light is key to revealing intricate details of tiny subjects. Macro specialist Colleen Slater shares her top tips and lighting techniques

Tips for Successful Lighting in Photography

In photography, it’s all about lighting. The most successful photographers are the ones most able to control, manipulate, and use it to capture what they see in their mind’s eye. There are generally two approaches when it comes to lighting: Use what’s there. Modify and adapt to it. This is where most photographers start out. Come [...]

How To: Shoot With Hard Light

10 Tips for Beautiful Smartphone Landscape Photography

Want to take stunning smartphone landscape photos? Check out these 10 tips, covering composition, lighting, settings, and more!

How BL Uses Photo Magic to Get the Not-So-Big Picture

Experiment with lighting, angles and a camera to set up fun photo shoots and create a little bit of photo magic.

Lighting Like Vermeer: How to Create Cinematic Depth with Lighting

Even though we work in a 2-dimensional medium, there's nothing worse than having a 2-dimensional composition. Adding depth is crucial.

Fashion Photography Dramatic Lighting Tutorial

Fashion photography does not always have to be only about the dress or the model. You can create interesting fashion photographs if you play around with lighting and use it to complement the dress itself. Photographer Daniel Norton from Adorama demonstrates how you can use gels with lights to create graphical interest in fashion photography: [...]

7 Tips for Taking Even Hotter Nude Selfies

It's all about the angles, the lighting, and consent.

Fixing Uneven Lighting and Unwanted Objects for Green Screen

We've all seen the tutorials that show you a one click process to pull a beautiful key. But many times, the lighting for the green screen shot you're working with isn't lit perfectly, and has objects in the shot that you don't want. In this segment, we show you how to remove unwanted objects from your footage, and key out a background with uneven lighting. Knowing how to fix these issues is the starting point to pulling a great key, even when the…