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Virtual reality might be the buzz of the town, but a new company called Scandy wants the world to know that the world of 360 content isnt destined only for headsets. Today, the company announced its raised one million dollars to start mass production on their Scandy Spheres, a ball-shaped object that has a 360 [...]

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When I put my hand up to write an article about photographing men, it didn’t occur to me (until I sat down in front of a blank screen) just how big a topic it actually is. While much could be written about photographing men, from lighting ratios to posing, post-processing and more, there seems to bea drastic imbalance in theamount of material devoted solely to photographing men,ascompared to women.

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As cameras get smaller, the medium upon which the imagery is stored on must also get smaller. It is for this reason that the go-to storage format for many action cams and compact cameras are MicroSD cards. Usually, when it comes time to offload these images onto a computer or mobile device, a converter is [...]

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After three years with my current camera setup, I know every nook and cranny of my DSLR and accompanying lenses. Despite this, there has always been one component that took longer than I care to admit to properly understand. The diopter. Here to share what a diopter does and what purpose it serves in your [...]

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Stalking garagesales, flea markets and estate auctions looking for long forgotten rolls of film seems to have become a very popular hobby in the past few years. It brought us the work of Vivian Maier, led to the discovery ofpreviously unknownAnsel Adams glass plates, andshowed us some amazing photographsshot during World War II. Most recently, [...]

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Oh the people you will meet! goes one of Dr. Seuss famous lines, speaking to a particular joy of travel. We dont just travel to see new places, we travel to experience new cultures full of new people – and as photographers, were intrigued to take their photo.

Yet its not as easy as taking photos of foreign mountains or cityscapes. because, gasp!, those people are full of life and feelings and opinions. They might be speaking a language we dont understand. We are... more

  Today marks the 90th birthday of Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and to record the occasion, celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz was chosen to create portraits of the Queen and her family. While Annie is no stranger to photographing The Queen,their last professional interactiondidn’t seem to go toowell at all, and given their attitude [...]

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As visual creators, if and when we begin on thatjourney from stills to motion, one of the first things we learnis the power of a moving camera. Once confined to the likes of big production companies, camera dollies and tracks have now become an almost essential piece of kit for many filmmakers and timelapse shooters. [...]

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This is one of those subjects in the photography world that is strangely controversial – like Nikon vs. Canon, DSLR vs. Smartphone and Prime vs. Zoom … the idea that you should delete your sh!t – or in other words – why you might want to permanently delete most of the photos that you’ve ever [...]

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Earlier this week we reported on the closing of Sony factories in Southern Japan due to a series of tragic earthquakes and aftershocks that left at least 41 people dead and many buildings damaged. Although Sony was the first company to release a statement on the closing of its factories, it appears Sony might not [...]

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