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There are many good reasons not to use a kit lens for travel photography. If a kit lens is the only lens you own and you have a photography trip planned, you may be thinking about buying a better quality mid-range zoom or even a prime lens to replace or accompany it.

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Hey guys! Today I’m going to be showing you a cool tip for how to manipulate a natural light image within photoshop to be able to drag some of that control back between the subject and background separation that get’s stripped away when shooting with a strobe. Obviously you can find a better lit location [...]

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I love taking street portraits. Whether the people you are photographing are posing or just going about their day-to-day life, humans are the most captivating, strange and interesting of subjects.

Most of my portraits taken out on the street are shot with the permission of the subject. Thats my style. I love looking for people who intrigue me. I often signal them with a smile and gesture ofmy camera, then watch fortheir reaction. But I also shoot unposed portraits and life on... more

With facial recognition technology you can take pictures of people in the street, run them through publicly available photographs online, and get a match. You would have heard this statement if you had been listening to the 20 September 2016 episode of Seriously on BBC Radio 4, called ‘The Online Identity Crisis’. I only heard [...]

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Both DJI and GoPro announced their Mavic and Karma drones.While there are some notable differences they are both following a familiar form factor. If you are looking for something completely different, you may wanna take a look at the PowerEggfrom PowerVision. I think it is kind of easy to realizes how the drone got its [...]

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There are some pricy (and awesome) motorized slider solutions out there (we quite like the Syrp Genie), but they are all kinda expensive. Anything with decent controls (screen/app) is 500$ or upwards. What if you throw some creative thinking into it? Videographer Nitsan Simantov constructed a variable speed slider motor from aTurnsPro – a $99 [...]

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Have you ever found yourself wondering how do the professionals (pros) consistently turn out amazing photos day after day, year after year and what are some of their secrets? So besides knowing their camera like their best friend, what are some of the things that the pros do? Here are some tried and true landscape photography tips used by the pros.

1. Experimentation

Experimenting is one of the best ways to shake yourself up out of the doldrums and yes even pros use itto get... more

One of the primary lessons I teach in portraiture is how to control the viewers eye, and how depth of field is one of the key methods to do that. This is normally the preserve of expensive fast lenses, but soon anyone will be able achieve this with some new technology Ive been trailing on [...]

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Lightroom presets are basically post-processing shortcuts that can save you tons of time and really speed up your editing workflow. They allow you to save a particular set of edits and apply them later with a single click. Presets can either be a final solution or a great starting point from where you can further tweak and perfect your images.

Making development presets is incredibly easy and effective working in Adobe Lightroom CC. It even gives you the option to import presets... more

Ever wondered how your flash tube looks like when it actually fires? It looks like aspace station. And not those hi-tech preppy stations too. It looks like what our great, great grandparents would have build for a space station. PhotographerHal Harrison took this to the test. Shooting a strobe tube is actually not an easy [...]

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