We also need to talk about loading 120 film, because even if you have experience with 35mm film, 120 is a totally different beast in terms of how you load it. You see, 120 film comes on rolls, so it’s just one long roll of film.
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DIY: How to Build a Pinhole Camera (Premium)
The pinhole camera has been a classic DIY project for students discovering photography for many decades. If you want to get a deeper appreciation for the basic DNA of a camera, build a pinhole camera. Pinhole cameras are bare-bones cameras; they consist of a black box, a place to put photo-sensitive material, and a pinhole-sized opening that projects a faint image on light-sensitive material. Stripped of the bells and whistles, all cameras—film and digital—follow this design. Some (OK, almost all) cameras are more advanced. But DIY is making a comeback, especially among millennials, so, let’s make a pinhole camera!
Film Photography for Street Photographers: The Basics (Premium)
“Since typical street shooters need to capture fast-changing moments, the faster the film the better.”
Digital to Film: Making 36 Exposures Count (Premium)
“…going into your shoot with some sort of story that you want to tell can be a great way to help you keep a good flow and have those 36 exposures count.”
Beginner’s Guide to Black and White Film and Film Processing at Home (Premium)
If you are just getting started in B&W film photography, before you decide which brand of B&W film to go with, you should first consider what your subject will be. This will determine which speed of film to use in order to have the best results.
Shooting Concert Photography: Tips From the Photo Pit Pro (Premium)
“My most dreaded stage scenario is the all over red lights – it might look cool to the crowd, but does terrible things to a camera.”
The Return of Spot Color Black and White Images: How to Create Them in Lightroom (Premium)
We typically stray away from color, but just so we can keep you up to date on one of the latest Instagram trends…
Shoot in Lower Contrast Light For More Black and White Processing Latitude (Premium)
It’s a popular method used by many filmmakers.
Developing a Rapport of Trust With a Portrait Subject (Premium)
Where a lot of portrait photographers end up failing at first is saying that they want to shoot portraits and then not realizing that it’s a full creative and collaborative process.
Shooting Dark & Moody Black and White Portraiture (Premium)
“Posing works mostly like it would with any other genre of portraiture, but with one thing to consider. if you are shooting a face, it can be offputting to have large portions of the face in shadow vs light, so it is better to go with one or the other.”
Processing Dark and Moody Black and White Portraiture (Premium)
“To begin, dark and moody portraits, at least in the sense that we are talking about here, are designed for the highlights to draw your attention to the subject in a specific way.”
5 Tips For Great Portraits with Fujifilm’s Acros Simulation (Premium)
“Unlike the monochrome black and white setting, the Acros simulation offers a slightly more subdued look right out of the box–a look that in this writer’s opinion feels a little more filmic than the standard monochrome black and white.”
Better B&W Portraits in Photoshop: Sliders, Channels and More (Premium)
“By comparison to film, with its fixed-intensity filter system, digital explodes with creative options, although you have different tools, depending on whether you’re working on a RAW or a JPEG file.”
The Joy of Color Filters…Or A Pain In The Glass? (Premium)
“Back in the days when film was your only choice, if you wanted the full range of tonal control via color filters, you needed a bag full of glass.”
Creating Better Compositions: Landscape Lessons from Minor White (Premium)
Let’s explore some of the visual devices which Minor White used to create photos of the natural world that are truly amazing.
Mood Building: On Blending Sculpture and Photography
“I like the surreal but at the same time, I hate when it’s predominant and redundant. What I try to do in my photos, it’s to give a little touch of surreal.”
Finding Your Style as a Street Photographer
Every photographer has this own unique style of shooting; but you’ll need to figure out just what kind you are in order to help yourself advance as an artist.
Screw the Rule of Thirds: “Composition” For Street Photographers
For Better Street Photography, Forget Everything You Learned About Composition
Masterclass: Add Artfulness to Your Street Photography
“These days, there are a lot of people carrying cameras around all the time. But not everyone is a photographer, and here’s why…”
Editing a Black and White Photo in Adobe Lightroom
If you like content like this, please considering backing our Kickstarter. It’s as little as $10/year, but if you give a bit more you can get cool rewards and more. Back in the film days, fixing a photo usually was as simple as involving burning and dodging specific areas. For the most part, that’s still what many photographers do. But it can get more involved with digital photography. Converting an image to black and white brings it back to its simple nature and gives the photographer the ability to really fine tune an image to look just the way that…