How to Create a Photography Portfolio Put Your Best Foot Forward Almost a year ago today, I was sitting in front of my computer looking through thousand's of my photos to find which ones I wanted to put on my website. I finally got my portfolio, it consisted of 117 photographs. I went through all
Does Gear Make You A Better Photographer? Watch The Full Video Some people think that the more gear you have the more "professional" you look. Here's an interesting video where a new photographer has 1 week to learn how to use professional photography gear including studio strobes, a Canon 550D, and some L lenses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX76k-chflo DigitalRevTV has a great series called, Pro Photographer, Cheap Camera. They flew Chase Jarvis to Hong Kong and had him shoot a professional skate boarder and several different martial arts performers with a Lego toy Camera. It was surprising to see how the photos turned out with such a cheap camera, although chase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7OBTovKxw Among all my hobbies (golf, gardening, and collecting rocks) photography would rank at the top for the most expensive. Any idea that can save me a couple dollars is well worth my time. This video is a step by step tutorial of how to create your own DIY beauty dish for just five dollars. You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZMvJ5qFWlc The iPhone 5 has one of the best cameras built in to a phone to date, but how well does it compare to a professional DSLR or medium format camera such as a Hasselblad H2D that sells for over $20,000! Watch this video to see if you could spot the difference between the iPhone
http://vimeo.com/47066521 Birds Eye Productions has an amazing service which flys all sorts of cameras with their custom octacopter that can shoot photos and videos from the air with a Canon 5D Mark II.
BEHIND THE SCENES PRE WEDDING PHOTO SHOOT IN INDIA - with Simeon Quarrie from VIVIDA on Vimeo. Watch this behind the scenes look at wedding photos taken before the ceremony in India...
http://youtu.be/P3uvKWG1voQ While filming a documentary on Tiger Sharks in the Bahamas a videographer's camera gear rig was stolen by a Shark, it's not the first time a shark has taken gear but this has been the most expensive at over $15,000. Watch the video to see it all unfold.
http://youtu.be/17FEqMWzL38 Von Wong recently shot a group of ballerina dancers from the Nation Sloviak Theater and he shot them in the city using ambient light. Watch how he posed the models and setup his shoots to get a dreamy look.
http://vimeo.com/47138207 Mark Peters, from Santa Cruz, went on a fishing trip with his friends. They brought along a GoPro which they put into a custom-built housing. The footage they got was unexpected and surreal: a beautiful flurry of Dolphins swimming right past the camera, tons of them! Check out the dolphin footage above.
