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I needed a way to trigger a flash from an Electron app, but there wasn’t anything out there that suited my needs. At first I thought there would be a flash with a simple bluetooth interface, and there is. Unfortunately none of these flashes have a public API, and some even go to the trouble […]

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Every time we ask our readers what post production software they use to edit there portrait photography the most common answer is Lightroom. It’s no surprise either – it’s a powerful tool for editing and organising your photos.

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WOW, YOUVE MADE IT! Sounds good, doesnt it? Just say it to yourself out loud right now: I finally made it! Whatever it means to you, it carries a sense of achievement and positivity. But how do you make it in photography? Do you have to live comfortably off your photos to say it? Is […]

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Working as a freelancer has its advantages, but also carries a lot of uncertainties. Its not easy to plan your activities and balance all the projects you work on. CJR wanted to make it easier for the photographers to focus on publications worth working for. They talked to 30 freelance photojournalists, who revealed some of […]

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High-speed cameras are certainly useful for slow motion, but they can also find their application in science. Elias Kristensson and Andreas Ehn, researchers at Swedish Lund University, have revealed the worlds fastest high-speed camera. Its able to capture as many as five trillion frames per second. This sounds astonishing only when you try to read […]

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A comment I get a lot on my workshops is how hard it is staying motivated to take photos on a regular basis, especially when your time and attention is being dragged away by all of the other things in life – work, family, living! I find one of the best ways to remain motivated and to have a regular feeling of achievement, is to do a photography project.

Benefits of doing a photography project

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The Panasonic GH5 has an internal waveform and vectorscope, zebras, and you can check focus with focus peaking. Despite all this, it still makes sense to have an external monitor tacked on. Sareesh Sudhakaran from Wolfcrow suggests ten possible reasons why you still may need to use the external monitor when shooting with the GH5, […]

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Lighting yourself up for self portraits can be a lot of fun. You get to experiment, try different things, and if it looks silly, nobody ever has to see it. Or, perhaps looking silly is the whole point, in which case you should probably put it on Facebook. But trying to recreate certain looks and […]

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This article might raise a few eyebrows. I am just wondering: do we need the spectacularization of pain? Film production company Duck Rabbit just published an article on their blog criticizing Magnum Photo and Lens Culture for advertising a photo contest using an image of an underage sex worker having sex with a client. She […]

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So youve got the knowledge and skill, you know your gear and the direction in which you want to go with your photography. Now its time to attract clients. You will inevitably do some shoots you wont be too excited about, and thats okay. But you should make an effort to attract clients you really […]

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