Articles by: Rachel Gregg

[caption id="attachment_15592" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Photo credit: Jamie Trueblood[/caption] You don’t need a ton of gear to shoot a movie that looks “big” — in fact, keeping it simple has its own unique set of benefits, which Jim Denault covered in detail in his CreativeLive class, The Cinematographer Prepares. Jim is the cinematographer for the hit series Silicon Valley and operated the cameras for the celebrated feature-length film, Boy’s Don’t Cry.

The Photoshop Filter Gallery gets a bad rap. A rough application of a stock filter can quickly make a photograph look overdone or even passé, but it doesn’t have to.

Hotspots are hard to avoid when shooting in the summertime, but they can creep up on you almost any time of year. Even harsh winter light bearing down on your subject can leave your photos with a few shiny spots that end up erasing essential detail or making skin look sweaty or overly-pale.

The beauty of supermarket flowers is that they are dirt cheap. The trouble comes when you get them home, relieve them of their packaging, and they slump over into the vase.

[caption id="attachment_9699" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo: William Warby via Flickr[/caption] Legend has it that the first Jack-O-Lanterns were actually made from turnips, not pumpkins, and the devil was involved in the deal. These days, the bright orange fruit (yes, it's technically a fruit) is the more likely candidate for ending up with a face on your front porch – no intervention from Lucifer needed.