How To Shoot Great Portraits With Flash In A Tiny Space

We all get short on space sometimes. Perhaps you’re just starting out and don’t have a huge area to shoot in. Maybe you’ve been asked to photograph a friend in their home, or you just want to get some photos of the kids. Whatever the reasons, it’s not impossible to produce great portraits in a very small space. Mark Wallace uses a small French hotel room to show us how he utilises a small space in this video....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 401 words · David Hill

How To View Permissions Used By Apps In Android 12

Do note that Google didn’t change the location of this menu compared to Android 11. You can still check all those permissions in the same spot. It’s also really simple to do, as you’ll see here. We’ll show you how to do that one step at a time, and you’ll also find some screenshots below. Do note that we’ve used the Pixel 4a to show you this, but it’s the same procedure on every other Pixel handset running Android 12....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 338 words · Pamela Beasley

How To Wipe Your Android Device Restore It To Factory Settings

Additionally, wiping a smartphone removes the vast majority of the personal data stored there. So this isn’t all about being a great way to simply start over with a phone, it’s a great way to ensure that a recycled or thrown out phone doesn’t become a risk. What’s more, there are a lot of Android users worldwide. The majority of smartphone users globally, in fact. So selling an old device has become a great way to recoup the cost of a new phone....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 243 words · Tammy Wilcox

I Designed And 3D Printed A Pair Of Lighting Gels For Shooting More Accurate Colours Underwater

In 2009, underwater photographer and (at the time) Nauticam USA Sales Manager Chris Parsons planted an idea in my head. It was the concept of using filters with artificial lighting when shooting photos underwater. Up until then, I had always thought that tinted filters on your camera in conjunction with strobes were a big no-no. My own personal experience had shown, that with a filter applied to your camera, any artificial light would appear very red, and ruin your image....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · 1099 words · Ryan Nelson

Instagram Finally Adds A Half Hearted Pinch To Zoom Feature

Instagram has finally added a pinch to zoom feature to their app. A feature so underwhelming that they didn’t even mention it on their blog (although, they did post to Instagram, heh). Ok, so perhaps I’m being a little harsh. It’s a feature that has been asked for ever since Instagram first launched. At least, people asked for it until they just got bored of waiting for it. You can now do it, but it’s not really all that useful....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 316 words · Sandra White
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