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Organize your gear with these 6 ideas from household items. Photographers end up with a lot of cameras and lenses. If your gear is taking up too much space or lives all over the house, I've got some tips for you on how you can get it organized and ready for use at all times. All of these storage devices are repurposed from items you can get at the store and are affordable. Watch the video to… • Organize your lenses so they are ready for use • Store your cameras where you can get to them without taking up an entire counter surface • Convert a pantry shelf designed for can goods to store all of your lenses • Use a modular shelf system that's customizable • Use a hook system for camera straps, bags, or backpacks Music is from Epidemic Sound. If you need music for your videos, Epidemic is simply the best in the business. Check them out here: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

I've been in this studio space for the last 3 years and I'll admit that in my haste of moving in I did a pretty poor job of organizing. The clutter has finally caught up with me and its time for a studio makeover! I thought it would be interesting to show you what I'm working on because as photographers, we tend to accumulate a lot of stuff. Identifying the clutter is the hardest part but once we have this figured out its fairly easy to get cleaned up and organized. Watch this video to identify clutter and find storage solutions: Cameras and Lenses Random Cables Consumables (film, paper, SD cards etc) Accessories (tripods, grip equipment etc) Books (Photography books and mail sent by viewers) Flat Storage (prints, negatives, paper work) Music is from Epidemic Sound. If you need music for your videos, Epidemic is simply the best in the business. Check them out here: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Love them or hate them, Sony has come to a point with their alpha series mirrorless camera lineup where they are dominating the mirrorless market. So much so that Nikon and Canon are aggressively designing mirrorless systems of their own. As someone who's had faith in Sony since the early days of e-mount, I want to share a few thoughts on what differentiates a mirrorless camera from a traditional DSLR. It goes way beyond the fact that the mirror is gone so the camera can be smaller. Its a system-wide approach and I think this will shed a little bit of light on what Canon and Nikon are facing putting together their own systems. This video is sponsored by Squarespace For a free trial and 10% off, visit http://squarespace.com/aop and use offer code AOP on check out

In this photography tutorial, we'll take a look at editing images only using the levels adjustment tool in Capture One to manipulate an image in various ways including how to get film looks such as Kodak Portra, Ektar, Fuji Veliva, FC160 and other looks. If you are a channel sponsor you'll have access to all of these looks as Capture One presets - check out the community tab for the channel. Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Check out Datacolor's Spyder5PRO:: http://bit.ly/ArtofP_Spyder Use the promo code "TED" at checkout for a 15% discount (Valid through 9/30/2018) This video is sponsored by Datacolor. Calibrating your display is probably the most important thing that every photographer should be doing, but for whatever reason most don't. In this video I'll show you how you can use tools such as the Spyder5 and the SpyderCheckr to calibrate both your monitor and cameras as well for consistent and accurate color throughout your entire workflow. Color calibration establishes a baseline for all of the color and edit work that you do in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. It keeps colors consistent so the reds in the print are the same reds you saw on your screen. The blue saturation is the same on the page as it was in your intention of the edit. We've talked a lot about the "photographers intention" in the last few videos and we are moving into color manipulation in the editing process with Adobe Lightroom and Capture One. Calibration is absolutely essential moving forward as if we don't calibrate, we are just guessing. We don't want to guess, we want to make deliberate and accurate work that matters.

I'm currently filming for Season 3 of the Artist Series. This past week I've been in Atlanta - you know where they film Queer Eye, Atlanta, Greenleaf, Flip or Flop Atlanta, etc… Well my little show is nowhere near as successful but hey - I'm in Season 3! This week I've been working with Bastiaan Woudt who is a brilliant, young photographer from Amsterdam. Bastiaan is currently in the US for his gallery debut of his recent project Mukono which is a beautiful project shot in Uganda to bring awareness and fresh water resources to the local people. Check out Bastiaan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Woudtphotography Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

The Artist Series Season 3 is under way! Join me on a behind the scenes look at Clyde Butcher. Often called the Ansel Adams of the Everglades, Clyde Butcher has developed a unique approach to large format photography native to the Florida Everglades. I'm spending the week with Clyde to film the first video for the next season of the Artist Series - its going to be a good one! Check out Clyde's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/clydebutcher/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Since we can't support the USA in the World Cup, the next best thing is clearly the brand new Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 G Master telephoto lens! Sony has officially stepped into the professional sports photography arena with its new zoom lens. Weighing over 2 lbs lighter than the Nikon 400mm f/2.8 E FL ED VR is 11.47 and the Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L USM, the Sony 400mm GM also features a more balanced design, sharper image rendition and faster autofocus supporting the Sony A9's 20 frames per second shooting speed. This lens is extremely significant, not only being better than the competition optically and mechanically, but it also represents what Sony has been striving for with mirrorless cameras providing the best in class system for sports and wildlife photography. Sony contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I'd like to come to New Jersey to photograph soccer. I jumped at the opportunity to photograph the New York Red Bulls play FC Dallas. So the USA did not make it far in the World Cup, but this shows us what the possibilities that the future holds - not only for the World Cup but also for photography. While Sony did bring me to New Jersey to test this lens, this video is not sponsored and the opinions here are my own. Featured in this video: Jared Polin https://www.youtube.com/user/JaredPolin/ Steve Huff https://www.youtube.com/user/stevehuff1969 Chelsea Northrup https://www.youtube.com/user/VistaClues Gordon Laing https://www.youtube.com/user/cameralabs Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Today Adobe is releasing a series of updates across all of the Lightroom apps including Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Lightroom CC, Lightroom.adobe.com and Lightroom Mobile. This is a major round of updates including the ability to sync presets and profiles as well as major updates to the Mobile Lightroom applications. We now have a healing brush as well as the ability to automatically remove chromatic aberrations and more. And now since we have the ability to sync presets and profiles, you can also create presets from Lightroom Mobile and sync them to the desktop. Filming the Artist Series Season Three :: Photographer Clyde Butcher The Artist Series Season 3 is under way! Join me on a behind the scenes look at Clyde Butcher. Often called the Ansel Adams of the Everglades, Clyde Butcher has developed a unique approach to large format photography native to the Florida Everglades. I'm spending the week with Clyde to film the first video for the next season of the Artist Series - its going to be a good one! Check out Clyde's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/clydebutcher/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

The Hasselblad 21mm f/4 is the widest lens Hasselblad has produced to date. The closest focal range this would come close to would be the Fujifilm 23mm GFX. This lens has a full frame equivalent to about 17mm - it is wide. Its also extremely impressive in terms of performance. This is a difficult lens to design within the limitations of portability, price, and fitting in with the rest of the system. The engineers at Hasselblad have done a brilliant job with this lens. Its very much a technical lens with incredible distortion control and edge to edge sharpness. The 21mm f/4 is perfect for architectural photography - particularly interiors and tight spaces that can be challenging to photograph. The lens features 13 elements in 9 groups, 2 aspherical elements, an aperture range of f/4 to f/32, central lens shutter with up to 1/2000 sec flash sync, internal focusing with manual focus override and a front filter threading of 77mm. Hasselblad were kind enough to loan me one from the first production run for a week to test. You can get one at B&H: https://goo.gl/pecEtJ AOP T-SHIRTS! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

In researching further about Steve McCurry's Afghan Girl, I found an interesting alternate take of the image as well as the story behind the photograph. When we're talking about the photographer's intention, this becomes a very broad discussion. We're talking about composition, color theory and the technical things that produce the finished photograph, but there's a broader space. These are all things we have to learn in photography but when it comes to getting the shot, we have to forget all about the rule of thirds, the rule of odds and all the other technical compositional tools and we go for realizing the intent. Steve McCurry had a very clear intent when he first saw the Afghan Girl. This was expressed consciously and subconsciously throughout the entire process and ended up being one of the most famous National Geographic covers in the history of the magazine. HIGHLY recommended book of Steve McCurry Portraits: https://amzn.to/2y9f8FJ Check out the interview with Steve here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIgx-nkFL6c AOP T-Shirts! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Lets talk again about photographing with intent. In this video I want to talk about what happens in front of your lens and how you can get really effective results by limiting your color palette. Steve McCurry's Afghan girl is an incredible example of this. Its not only a famous photograph but it has become iconic over the years. Everything in this composition supports the eyes including color. McCurry took this image on with a Nikon FM2, 105mm f/2.5 lens and used Kodachrome 64. While many contest that this is a definitive Kodachrome image, I actually argue that its the selection of colors that was important and keeping them reduced to essentially 3 - red, green and the skin-tone. AOP T-shirts! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Intention is the point of all photography. How do you intend for your work to look? The intention of the photographer starts with the idea, concept and composition of the image and its carried all the way through to the final printed work. Photography today has changed in some ways because we tend to publish our work for screen-based devices, but the intention of the photographer - or your intent shouldn't be sacrificed. William Eggleston, Ernst Haas, Luigi Ghirri and Saul Leiter were all color photographers with different styles and different looks to their work. They represent the best photographers of their time. Yet they all shot on Kodachrome. So why does their work look vastly different from one another yet they were using the same film stock? The answer is in the intent. Each had a unique intention to how their work would look, what it would say and how it would communicate to the viewer. The answer is in the printing stage of photography. This is where decisions were made that created unique works. Printing workshop with Richard Jackson, Marielle Wilkes and Wesley Bernard https://goo.gl/LTf6AS AOP T-Shirts! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Sony has just announced the latest compact camera in the RX100 lineup - the Sony RX100 VI. I have owned every model since the RX100 III so I am super excited about what's coming. The major additions are the longer lens, improved AF, redesigned pop up EVF and the addition of S-Log3 and HLG picture profiles. I've used the RX100 V for the last 2 years as my main vlogging camera. If you need something portable, this really is the best option out there by a long shot. I have several videos shot on the RX100 below. This thing is going to be a beast! I'm supper excited. You can pre-order starting June 7 from B&H https://goo.gl/7UiBQ8 AOP T-shirts! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Some cool stuff in the mail I want to share with you guys today! Hasselblad 21mm f/4 Ultra Wide Angle Lens, Lensmate Thumbgrip for the Fujifilm X-E3 as well as a rare and brilliant book by Alexey Brodovitch called Ballet. Lensmate Thumbgrip for Fujifilm X-E3 https://amzn.to/2JmQDcE Alexey Brodovitch - Ballet https://amzn.to/2suyUVR Hasselblad 21mm lens https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1407157-REG/hasselblad_cp_hb_00000255_01_xcd_21mm_f_4_lens.html/BI/8986/KBID/10442/DFF/d10-v21-t1-x893946/SID/EZ Art of Photography SHIRTS https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from EPIDEMIC SOUND: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr 27 The Sony RX100 VI is going to be AWESOME! Sony has just announced the latest compact camera in the RX100 lineup - the Sony RX100 VI. I have owned every model since the RX100 III so I am super excited about what's coming. The major additions are the longer lens, improved AF, redesigned pop up EVF and the addition of S-Log3 and HLG picture profiles. I've used the RX100 V for the last 2 years as my main vlogging camera. If you need something portable, this really is the best option out there by a long shot. I have several videos shot on the RX100 below. This thing is going to be a beast! I'm supper excited. You can pre-order starting June 7 from B&H https://goo.gl/7UiBQ8 AOP T-shirts! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Last week I released a video for the artist series and then a few hours later I had to delete it. I want to talk about why. It won't happen again. Also coming - photo assignments will be returning soon - thank you for your patience. Also I will be renovating the studio over the next few weeks. I want to get input and suggestions from you guys so stay tuned. I've outgrown the space I've got now and unfortunately moving is not possible at the moment so I'm going to redesign what I've got to make it work! Music from EPIDEMIC SOUND: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY T-SHIRTS https://aop.threadless.com/

In photography, there are no rules. Kevin Raber and I sat down at the Sony Kando 2.0 event and had a fun discussion about all things mirrorless and the most important thing in photography - you and having fun! Subscribe to Luminous Landscape's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8lJ3EM0VC4TS0jY6VJtTcw Check out Luminous Landscape: https://luminous-landscape.com AOP T-Shirts: https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

Sony Kando 2.0 is described by Sony as "Your most inspiring and fulfilling creative experience this year." Kando 2.0 brings together Sony Artisans, Sony Collective members as well as press and it is open to the public. I was honored to get invited this year and I ended up filming 5 interviews with some really accomplished photographers and filmmakers. Kando also offers classes, panel discussions and shooting opportunities around Monterey California. So in this first video - I'll give you a little vlog based around what we were doing there. The Monterey Bay Aquarium was probably my favorite activity - the place is beautiful and extremely photographic. Sony were nice enough to loan me an A7r III as well as several lenses - the 85mm 1.4 GM, the 16-35mm GM and the 12-24mm G. Art of Photography Shirts! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

I got a letter from a photographer in Tehran who watches my videos. I was really touched by not only the letter but the photographs that were sent and the meaning behind them. AOP Shirts: https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr

While sorting mail for the last video, I recognized a trend of Q&A questions that people have been sending me via snail mail. So why not share them here! Thanks to everyone who sent in questions. I hope I'm able to give you some photography advice that works for you. Art of Photography shirts! https://aop.threadless.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound: https://goo.gl/v5wWKr