Photography Blogs & Tutorials

After Calumet’s closure of US based retail stores and filing Chapter 7bankruptcy in 2014, it was pretty clear they were in trouble. WithBowens, thisnews comes as something of a surprise, however pulling out of The Photography Show at the last minute was a big clue that something was up. Now, both companies are reported to [...]

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There are countless ways of setting up and lighting a white background for stills or video, but sometimes you just need to get it done quick and maybeyou’re working with limited space. This short video from Rob & Jonas’ Filmmaking Tipsshows us howto get set up easily and relatively painlessly for filming on a white [...]

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In a slight departure from thereviews of old and weird lenses typically seen on Mathieu Stern’s YouTube channel, this tutorial shows how to create animated before and after sequences as animated gif or video files from within Photoshop. I typically hop into After Effects to make short animated gifs, purely because it’s what I’m most [...]

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Not long ago, there were two types of camera accessories to buy: brand items designed by known manufacturers such as Canon and Nikon, OR third-party items of questionable quality that you’d likely buy only if you were on a tight budget. Today, this situation has changed, with third-party manufacturers such as Sigma and Tamron stepping up their game and producing alternatives that... more

Designed for both the land and air, the new DJI Focus remote follow focus system wants to change the way we record ouraerial footage. No longer are we limited to hyperfocal distance and infinity focus lensesthat have everything sharp.Now, we’reable to nail focus on our subject and use cinematic focus pulling techniques while shooting from [...]

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If you ever needed proof that police photo composites could be pretty accurate, this is it. In an advert recently put out by Getty, they use facial compositing techniques to make up the faces of religious leaders, politicians and royalty usingparts of random peoplefromthe millions of images in their archive. I would imagine Getty used [...]

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The last thing you want to do when testing out some equipment, especially whensurrounded by your peers at the CineGear expo, is to drop a $70,000 Arri Alexa XT, but that’s exactly what oneperson did while checkingout the NBStabilizer rig recently. A number of social mediacommentators are putting this down to user error, letting the [...]

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Have you ever said to yourself, “If only I had that lens, or this camera I’d be an amazing photographer”? Or maybe you’ve thought that if only you had more time or money, your dreams of being the photographer you want to be, would finally be realized. Many times as photographers we will have limitations put on us. Sometimes we may set those limits on ourselves, and sometimes they are limits that can’t be helped. Either way, we can use those limitations to... more

For most sane and rational people, being invited to climb the spire at the top ofOne World Trade Center to photograph the view would probably result in a flat out “no”. For others, it’s definitely a “yes“, “sure“, or “absolutely!“, even when not entirely legal. But whenprofessional mountaineer and photographer Jimmy Chin is asked to [...]

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If you’re like me, its so easy to get focused on trying to take great shots that you forgot to make sure your images are straight, and not crooked. Not some crazy tilt, mind you just a slight tilt. So slight that when you notice it in your images, it just looks weird. A more dramatic tilt and well just call it art. But this slight tilt is just enough to drive you crazy and cost us a lot of extra time editing your images.

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