52 Things You Can Do This Year to Make Your Pictures and Video Better

Here are 52 things that you can try this year that should take your video and photo skills to the next level.

We’re constantly creating new ones via our revamped Science Filmmaking Tips channel, so stay tuned each week for new ones. Until then, here are plenty to get you started. Oh, and don’t forget that if you like this content, you can help us by supporting this outreach via Patreon. Thanks again:

New from our 2018 52Things series!

1. How to Make Stop Motion
2. Learn to Edit Faster with Keyboard Shortcuts
3. How to Photograph the Northern Lights
4. Take your Drone Flying to the Next Level
5. Create 360 Degree Photospheres or Panoramas
6. Create 360 Degree Panoramas with your Drone
7. Practice your Handheld Camera Techniques
8. Learn to Shoot Video by Yourself
9. How to do Motion Tracking
10. Drone Hyperlapse over 6 months
11. Do a Droneception Photograph
12. Bring theBring the Right Camera Gear – Adventure Bag Setup 2018
13. How to Create Your Own Lightroom Presets
14. Create Your Own Video LUTS
15. Create Light Leaks and BOKEH
16. Eat Surstromming
17. Create BOKEH overlays in Photoshop
18. How to do a Drone Hyperlapse
19. Stitch Multiple Photos together to simulate a Long exposure shot
20. Use After Effects Templates to Spice up Your Project
21. Do Smoke Grenade Photography
22. Take the Perfect Family Portrait
23. The Vertigo Effect with a Drone
24. Ultra High-Res MacroPhotography
25. Use a Gimbal
26. Shoot a DIY Video – Here’s how
27. Contemplate Film School
28. Create Fire Rain (Steel Wool Photography)
29. Photocomposition with Toys
30. Create Your Own Whoosh SFX
31. Get a Gopro for Gimbal-free video
32. Understand Wildlife Filmmaking Ethics
33. Know the Basics of Your Camera Lens
34. Take Better Photos with these 5 Tips
35. Shoot Solo with 6 More tips
36. Get Drone Shots without a Drone
37. Be Creative with LED lights
38. Learn the Steps to Make a Documentary
39. Part 1 – Answer “Why are you Making it”
40. Part 2 – Story Basics
41. Part 3 – Lighting Basics
42. Part 4 – Talking To Clients
43. Part 5 – Shooting Interviews
44. Part 6 – Choose an Editing Software
45. Part 7 – Editing Basics – (With Adobe Rush)
46. Create a 3-axis Moving Timelapse
47. Make a Timelapse Between Seasons
48. Make a Driving Timelapse
49. Shoot an Aerial Timelapse
50. Make a Tilt-Shift / Miniature World Time-lapse
51. Shoot better B-Roll

Video and Photo Tips from Previous Years!

1. Learn the Basics of your DSLR.
2. Learn how to make Sketch Animations
3. Make Better Videos for Instagram
4. Create the Jittery Text and Hand drawn look.
5. Learn what settings are ideal for your GoPro
6. Learn how to make grey pictures white!
7. Create Stunning Cave Photos.
8. Shoot Underwater with your GoPro
9. Buy a sweet Macro-Photography kit.
10. Make a Hyperlapse
11. Do a Day-to-Night Timelapse
12. Make 360 or VR video
13. Create a macro camera from your Gopro.
14. Make a VLOG
15. Get Music for your Videos
16. Shoot better interviews
17. Shoot better B-Roll
18. Get Free Stuff for your Films
19. Speed up your Editing in FCPX
20. Add Color to Black and White Images
21. Up your Photo-Game
22. Learn to Deal with Depression
23. How to Send a Weather Balloon with camera attached to Space
24. Tips to Get Stuff Done
25. Create a 3-axis Moving Timelapse
26. Make a Timelapse Between Seasons
27. Make a Driving Timelapse
28. Shoot an Aerial Timelapse
29. Make a Tilt-Shift / Miniature World Time-lapse
30. Plan a Project somewhere you’ve never been
31. Shoot a Wedding video for a friend.
32. Add Dinosaurs to Photos via Masking in Photoshop
33. Create Light Rays in Photoshop
34. Shoot Waterfall Pictures using Shutterspeed
35. Learn White Balance
36. Become an Adventure Filmmaker
37. Create Milky Way Photos in Lightroom
38. How to Mount a Lavalier Microphone
39. Use Magic Lantern to make an old DSLR into a HD video camera
40. Shoot a White Background Video
41. Use an Endoscope
42. Get rid of flickering with Fluorescent Lights
43. Do a Parallax Photo – 2D into moving video!
44. Create Steel Wool Photographs
45. Fake Epic Slow Motion!
46. Deflicker your Timelapses
47. 3D Print a Drone Handle
48. Record Better Audio in an Airplane
49. Be a better Documentary Filmmaking Crew Member
50. 5 Drone Moves you should know!
51. Shoot with a Steadycam
52. Make good videos with your phone

Remember, there are more via our revamped Science Filmmaking Tips Youtube channel! Follow along every other week! And, if you’re keen to help supporting us at Patreon we’d be eternally grateful.