YouTube is an amazing resource for photographers. Gear reviews, technique videos, and post production guides all help us along in our photographic journey. However, it wasn’t watching a YouTube video that changed my mind about vintage lenses, it was creating one. Read to find more!
Author: Jason Row
Jason has more than 35 years of experience as a professional photographer, videographer and stock shooter. You can get to know him better here.
Many of us enjoy taking photographs in the urban environment. Classic iconic buildings, monuments, infrastructure, they all make excellent subjects for our lenses.
There is an issue though. The space in cities is often tight. Buildings close together, busy streets, street furniture, often mean that we struggle to get good shots. Even when we can get the shot, we often run into one of the more frustrating elements of photography, converging verticals. Today we are going to look at several ways that you can either avoid them, or correct them in editing.
There are actually many reasons why you might want to take a tripod, beyond shooting at night. Today we are going to explore some of them. But first, and I have gone on about this before, don’t buy a cheap tripod. Spend as much as you can afford on a good set of legs and a separate, suitable head. A cheap tripod will put you off for life. Buy a good one and you will understand why tripods matter more than you think.
Some changes in photographic technology seem to happen at breakneck pace, others slowly, almost imperceptibly. High ISO noise is one of the latter. That’s because it’s actually a combination of evolving technologies that have reduced its importance in day to day photography. Today I am going to give you my opinion on why high ISO no longer matters.
As drone fliers we are used to the ever increasing regulation of our hobby/profession. So in 2025 when the UK’s CAA announced it would be changing the rules on UK drone flying, I was concerned but not surprised. However when the new rules were finally announced it wasn’t as bad as feared and in many respects it was a positive move.
We might look at the dull weather, and perhaps the seemingly dull suburban environment that many of us might live in and think “no photography today.” But to do so is to miss a potential gold mine of photographic possibilities. Today we are going to look at capturing the magic in the mundane.
