Silhouettes are a powerful and captivating photographic technique that can add drama, mystery, and emotion to your images. By reducing subjects to their essential shapes and outlines, silhouettes evoke a sense of intrigue and imagination. In this guide, we'll explore how to shoot stunning silhouettes using a digital camera, particularly in manual mode, and discover the types of subjects that lend themselves well to this art form.
IR and UV photography is the process of making photos using light that sits outside our own small slice of visible light.
In this article I’ll do my best to distill what I’ve learned about this fascinating technique. Although I’m not an expert in this niche, I’m comfortable enough with the process to explain the basics and inform most interested beginners.
This March the BPW hosted its inaugural travel workshop in Nevada’s Valley of Fire. This epic and surreal state park is a hidden gem of the Southwest and offers otherworldly landscapes of red and pink sandstone.
Tripods are both loved and loathed by photographers. This essential tool makes possible certain situations that would otherwise be impossible to capture. Long exposures, timelapses, self-portraits, food photography— ”the tripod-saves-the-day” list goes on and on. Below we'll share with you the BPW’s top picks for tripods of 2023.
In a world of scroll-through-apps, where photos are glanced at for milliseconds, portfolios and photo-projects are often overlooked and under appreciated. Learning to tell stories though photography is a vital part of any photographers tool-kit. Slowly exploring a topic or idea, over longer periods of time, yields visually rich photos and a fulfilling sense of accomplishment when complete.
