How to Set Up Your Own Website the Easy Way
It’s never been easier to set up your own website—and you’ve never had more options. Here’s what you need to know to get that website up and running.
What Is Post-Production or Post-Processing in Photography and Videography?
You’ve probably heard the terms “post-production,” “post-processing,” or simply “post” about movies but they also apply—and are equally important—to photography. Let’s break down what they mean....
How to Take Better Photos With Live View on Your Camera
One camera feature a lot of photographers underuse is the Live View screen on the back. While it’s slower to line up a shot with Live View rather than just looking through the viewfinder, there are a few advantages. Let’s...
What Does “Fulfilled by Amazon” Mean?
When you’re shopping on Amazon, you might have seen the words “Fulfilled by Amazon” next to some of the things you buy. You hopefully won’t notice anything different about the purchase experience, but you could ru...
How to Upload the Best Looking Instagram Images
Instagram is probably our favorite social network here at How-To Geek. We always want our photos to look their best, so I did the research. Here’s how to make your images look as good as possible on Instagram....
How to Shoot a Time-Lapse With Your DSLR or Mirrorless Camera
A time-lapse is the opposite of slow-mo: instead of slowing down fast-moving activities they speed up slow ones. They’re perfect for showing the movement of clouds, crowds, traffic, and the like. You can even use them to sh...
How to Add Presets to Adobe Lightroom
Presets are one of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s most powerful features; with them, you can use the same settings over and over again. The most common presets are Develop presets that consistently apply the same edits to any ...
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Sports Photos?
A lot of people buy DSLRs and other cameras because they want to take good sports photographs; it’s one of the areas where your smartphone just can’t cut it. Here are the camera settings that will generally give you the b...
What is Exposure Bracketing?
Exposure bracketing is a technique where, instead of taking a single photo, you take three (or more) that are all exposed slightly differently; normally one is correctly exposed, one slightly underexposed, and one slightly ov...
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Street and Travel Photography
Street photography and travel photography are similar genres: really, street photography is just travel photography in your hometown. That means they use the same broad camera settings.
How to Safely Buy Photography Gear Online
Buying online is always a risk. Anyone anywhere can list something for sale, and there’s often no recourse should a problem arise. Even big marketplaces like Amazon—with tens of thousands of sellers—aren’t immune ...
How to Make Sure a Camera or Lens Works Properly Before You Buy
If you’re buying a used camera or lens, it’s a good idea to give it a thorough going over to make sure everything works before handing over your cold, hard cash. Here’s what to check for.
How to Assess and Analyze a Good Photo
After a shoot, it’s time to go through all the images you’ve taken and pull out the good ones. But what makes a good photo? Let’s look at how to assess and analyze your images.
How to Set a GIF as a Live Wallpaper on Your iPhone
Here at How-To Geek, we think iOS’s Live Wallpaper feature is pretty neat, although it’s underused. If you don’t want to spend the time to make your own great Live Wallpaper, one of the next best options is to use a GIF...
How to Keep Your Camera Lenses Clean
I’ve stressed time and time again here on How-To Geek: the lens is as important, if not more important, than the camera to which it’s attached. If your photos are blurry because there are smudges on your lens, there’s n...
How to Keep Your Photos Safe While You’re Out Shooting
As a photographer, there’s nothing worse than losing your hard shot photos, whether it’s from hard drive failure, theft, or anything else. With a good backup strategy, it’s easy to keep your photos safe at home, but wha...
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Landscape Photos?
One of the questions I get asked most often about my landscapes is “What settings did you use?” Beginner photographers often feel that there is some magic combination of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO that will make the...
How to Use a Balanced Composition for Stronger Photos
There are two kinds of balance in photography: formal and informal. Understanding both—and knowing how to them—is an important part of composition. Let’s dig in.
What Camera Settings Should I Use for Portrait Photos?
To take good portraits, you need to use the right camera settings. Let’s have a look at what combination of lens, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO give you the awesome portrait look with a sharp, in-focus subject and a cre...
How to Always Take Sharp Photos
A sharp photo is one where the subject is in focus with clear lines, crisp details, and no (unintended) blurring. It’s generally a sign of a high-quality, technically excellent image. Here’s how to make sure you always ta...
Exposure Values Give You a Better Understanding of How Your Camera Works
In photography, we talk a lot about “stops”: it’s the standard measure of exposure where an increase of one represents a doubling of the amount of light hitting the sensor or film. One thing that a lot of photographers ...
How to Make a Good Live Wallpaper for Your iPhone
Live Wallpapers are one of iOS’s neat if underused, features. It’s fun—and very Harry Potteresque—to have a bit of motion on your lock screen. But setting any old live photo isn’t going to give you great results: he...
What Is Focus Stacking?
A big part of photography is coming up with creative ways to overcome the limits of the laws of physics. One of these techniques is focus stacking.
When You Shouldn’t Shoot RAW Images
RAW images contain a lot more data than JPEGs. If you’re using a DSLR or mirrorless camera, you should be shooting with RAW most of the time—it makes the most of what your camera is capable. You can even shoot RAW on your...
How to Kill Your Facebook Addiction On Your iPhone
I used to be a big fan of Facebook. It was where all my friends shared interesting links and posted photos. Unfortunately, it’s now a wasteland, filled with older relatives and that weird guy I met in 2011. Everyone’s mov...
