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Photographers have the power to capture human moments. This is the opening line of the inspiring new short film created by Cooperative of Photography, affectionately known to as COOPH. As cliche as it may sound, the truth couldnt ring more clearly. A single image can stop the world in its tracks and, at least for [...]

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I see a lot of winter. The interior of Alaska, where I live, gets a solid six months, often seven, of the white stuff. Essentially anytime from October to mid-April, we are likely to have snow on the ground. Unless I put the camera down for most of the year (which I dont), I end up with a lot of photos on my computer of snowy mountains, forest, and tundra. Come the early-spring, brown season, I have a lot of computer work to take care of.

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Well, this sure is a surprise announcement, at least for me. Blackmagic Design have today announced their 3G-SDI Arduino Shield, allowing you to control your Blackmagic cameras from your own Arduino basedDIY projects. For those who’ve never come across the Arduino before, see here, here, here, here and here. I’ll wait, but there’s plenty more [...]

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Last week, two earthquakes struck southwestern Japan, leaving at least 41 people dead and substantial damage to the region, which is known for its manufacturing facilities. Sony was affected by the quakes, forcing operations at two of its factories to shut down for a period of time, while Fujifilmhas offered to help in what can [...]

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Last year I was given an incredible opportunity to travel to the US for three and half weeks just to take photos. My trip was sponsored by an amazing woman, whichspurred me to try and get other sponsors for my photography.When you are travelling you cant take everything with you, so being able to get a lens that could handle a lot of the scenes that I wanted to shoot was very handy. To be able to go from a wide angle view, then zoom right in, was going to be a great lens for travelling, I... more

If you, like me bundle up your USB and short power cables on travel, color coding them may be very helpful for getting them untangled quickly. If the cable are color coded, and you did not make too much of a mess when bundling them with a cable tie, you should just be able to [...]

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Atomos have announced at NAB2016 that they are allowing owners of Atomos recorders to update their firmware to all of their devices except the Ninja 2, giving everybody the ability to record HDR video absolutely free. Now, I know what you’re thinking. HDR. It’s usually pretty hideous, overdone, ugly, etc., but when it comes to [...]

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It’s a fact of life these days for photographers that our work maybe stolen if we post it online. No matter what level of photography we’re at, if you post enough images to the web, it’s simply become an inevitable consequence of sharing out work with the masses. Sometimes it’s an honest mistake, somebody loves [...]

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Some people prefer to use continuous light and some prefer strobes, but if you combine the two you get a certain kind of magic. The continuous light gives you thesmearing effect you would get from dragging the shutter, while the strobe will freeze the action. PhotographerErik Christian used that fact to create compelling portraitsfor a [...]

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There’s no way around it, our world is dominated by electronic devices. In these days of the super computers in our pockets we call cellphones, as well astablets, smart watches and the countless other gadgets whichmake up the Internet of Things, one mother is taking things back to basics. In an ongoing project, New Zealand [...]

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