The Sunny 16 Rule is one of the simplest rules in photography that helps you gain correct exposure. It’s a formula that will tell you what shutter speed to use on a bright sunny day when the lens’s aperture is set to f/16.
Learn photography rules, learn to apply them, learn their advantages and limitations. Finally, learn to bend them, break them and explore beyond them.
If your Instagram feed has been filling up with text posts about a new "rule" that will soon allow Instagram to use your content in unprecedented and nefarious ways, don't sweat it: Instagram has confirmed that the viral meme is exactly as fake as it looks.
Here's a short 4-minute video by Light Club that looks at using a vertical or horizontal middle line through the frame, something it refers to as "a secret rule of photo composition."
The US Copyright Office has just announced new rules regarding the group registration of photographs. One of the biggest changes is the fact that only 750 unpublished photos can be registered at a time with each claim, when previously there was no limit. For photographers who regularly register extremely large batches of unpublished photos, copyright registration will soon be much more expensive.
The inevitable has arrived. After a number of individual national parks placed a ban on drones, The National Park Services is telling the Associated Press that it will soon ban the use of drones in all 401 parks across the United States.
Last year the Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition dealt with controversy when …