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credits: Canon What Is Time Stacking Photography? Time stacking is what happens when you take a bunch of photos of the same scene over a period of time and then combine them later into one single image. Instead of just one single moment, you get a picture that shows movement/change. It is very similar to long exposure, however instead of leaving your shutter open for a few minutes or hours, you take hundreds of quick shots and “stack” them together afterward. How It Works Thi

What Is Pinhole Photography? Pinhole photography is basically the most stripped-down form of photography possible. Instead of a lens, you use a tiny hole (literally a pin-sized opening) to let light hit your camera’s sensor (or film of course). It is how cameras started. Before lenses, there were camera obscuras, where photographers would project an image through a small hole onto a wall to then trace it. Modern pinhole photography is that same idea, just in ‘‘modern’’ camera

What Is Stroboscopic Flash Photography? In simple terms: instead of firing once, your flash fires multiple times during a single long exposure. Each flash burst freezes your subject in a new position, and all those bursts get recorded in one photo. How It Works You set your camera for a long exposure (say, one or two seconds), and then set your flash to stroboscopic mode, most speedlights have a setting called “Multi” or “Stroboscopic.” This now lets you control three key thi

What Is Defocused Firework Photography? Normally when you shoot fireworks, you are trying to get them super sharp, however you can actually do the opposite. If you throw the fireworks out of focus on purpose, they turn into abstract blobs of colour that look like flowers, jellyfish, or watercolour splashes in the sky. How To Do It

What Is Reverse Lens Macro Photography? Normally, your lens is built to focus on subjects a few meters away and beyond. But if you flip that lens around (literally mount it backwards) it works in reverse and suddenly lets you focus on things just a few centimetres from your camera. It is an old trick that photographers have been using for decades, and it is still one of the cheapest ways to try out macro without fancy/expensive gear. How to Do It Use a Reversing Ring (or DIY

What Is Prisming Photography? Prisming is when you shoot through a prism or another piece of glass to bend, distort, or reflect light into your photo. By holding a prism in front of your lens, you can add flares, rainbows, reflections, or even duplicate parts of your subject and all this straight in-camera. You are basically using optics to get results you can’t normally achieve. Portrait photographers love it for dreamy effects, but it works just as well for landscapes, stil

credits: Ilford What Is Trichrome Photography? Trichrome photography is a way of creating colour photographs using only black-and-white images. Sounds a little odd yes, but here is how it works: you take three separate photos of the same scene, each one through a different colour filter—> red, green, and blue. Later, you combine those three filtered shots into one full-color image. This method goes way back to the late 1800s, when photographers didn’t yet have true colour fil

What Is High-Speed Photography? High-speed photography is about freezing moments that normally just happen too fast for us to see. Things like a water balloon exploding, a strawberry hitting a glass of water, a droplet splashing into water etc. Basically stuff that (to the naked eye) is just a blur, but with the right technique, you can catch it in crisp detail. Two Main Ways to Do It There are two approaches, depending on your setup/surroundings: Fast shutter speeds (dayligh

What Is Refraction Photography? Refraction photography is basically using the way light bends through glass, water, or anything clear to...

What Is Multiple Exposure Photography? Multiple exposure is when you capture more than one image on the same frame, either in-camera or...

What Is a Cinemagraph? A cinemagraph is kind of a hybrid between photo and video. Imagine a still image where just one small part keeps...

What Is Tilt-Shift Photography? Tilt-shift photography is a technique that looks very technical (and it kind of is), but it opens the...