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Last September, Google teamed up with GoPro to launch its 16-camera VR device, Odyssey. At $15,000, it was far from a consumer-grade device and even pushed the boundary of many professional uses. Now, Google and GoPro have announced a brand new VR rig that is set to target those who dont care to drop dive [...]

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What happens when you ask 150 people to look at the same photos and pick their favourites? The answer is simple: a pattern emerges. But which pattern emerges can be very surprising, as I found out recently.

Last year I decided to self-publish a photo book on Spain. Id been wanting to do it for years. When the crowd-funding website Kickstarter announced it was opening up shop in Spain, where I live, I took it as a sign and made sure my project was uploaded the day they opened.

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When Hasselblad founder, Victor Hasselblad was approached by the Swedish government in 1941to see if he had the skills to produce a camera identical to one they had captured, his famous reply was “No, but I can make a better one”. Today, rather than taking the typical route of camera releasesand simply updating the model [...]

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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), an advertising watchdog in the UK, yesterday presented a ruling upholding a complaint about a Gucci advert from December last year which describes the model as appearing “unhealthily thin” and “gaunt”. The complaint about advert labelledby the ASAas “irresponsible” mentionstwo models. One model sat down on a couch and the [...]

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When photographer and retoucher Erik Johansson decides to create an image, he certainly makes an effort topushthe boat out, quite literally in this case. In a project that took several months to complete, Erik used 17 square meters of mirror to help produce this extraordinary scene, andwhile there’s certainly a lot of post and retouching [...]

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Seeing a random person on the street that you’d love to photograph can rapidlybecome one of the scariest scenarios out there for many portrait photographers as soon as they start to consider how to approach them. With “Don’t talk to strangers!” being drummed into us from a very young age, it’s just one of those [...]

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I watched a two hour Periscope yesterday. Okay, I didnt watch all of it because, well, it was two hours. It wasnt an instructional video or a behind-the-scenes of a photo shoot. Rather, it was a workshop giver going into great detail about the current drama in her life with her workshop attendees. It sounded [...]

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By combining photographs from the past with technology from today, Moscow-based photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov has created an incredible animation short titled The Old New World. For the four-minute film, Zakharov took photos of New York, Boston, Washington, Detroit, Washington D.C. and Baltimore captured between 1900 and 1940 and animated them into a wonderful [...]

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Video autofocus capabilities has been getting better and better over the years, but nothing yet can beat the range of control and precision as the ability to properly use a manual focus. Unfortunately, using manual focus isnt as easy as it may seem, especially when relying only on the live view display on the back [...]

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Many photographers enjoy takingpictures of clouds, and its easy to see why. From the vivid patterns and brilliant sunset formations, to the storm clouds and unusual styles, theres almost always something interesting happening in the sky. While theres no doubt that clouds can make great subjects in their own right, I feel that they are most useful, photographically speaking when theyre used as backgrounds for other subjects. The proper use of clouds in an image can add texture,... more

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