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If youre into any kind of photography that includes models, chances are youve heard of Model Mayhem. Possibly the leading portfolio site in the industry, MM helps creatives find photographers, models, makeup artist and others to collaborate with. Unfortunately there seems to be quite a few shady characters with cameras out there and more than [...]

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Its a sound many of us either take for granted or have been conditioned to tone-out entirely, the clack a camera makes when the mirror lifts and shutter fires. But theres something magical about it. Like the roaring exhausts of two supercars, no two camera shutters sound the same. They have their own personalities defined [...]

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For a while now weve been seeing reports concerning the future of Samsungs camera business. It started with a report from a South Korean journal, followed by another Korean newspaper and Spanish and Portuguese stores claiming that Samsung will be exiting the digital camera business, and while Samsung hasnt issued an official statement it looks [...]

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If youve considered buying an action camera, but have hesitated due to the cost of a GoPro, this little gem might be the answer. Its called CAME-ZERO and its a budget version of GoPros HERO action cam lineup. Created by video company CAME-TV, the CAME-ZERO offers up the specs of an older generation GoPro in [...]

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Most prospective travel photographers find out very early on in their careers that travel photography is very different to taking photographs when you travel. As a travel photographer, your absolute focus has to be on taking photos, and nothing else comes above that. Tiredness, hunger, boredom, and time with loved ones are sacrificed while you are on the road, so that you can maximize your time, and achieve the best possible photographs.

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Breakthrough Photography has already had their, well, breakthrough, but theyre looking to push the boundaries even further. On December 14th 2014 the San Francisco-based startup finished a very successful Kickstarter campaign for their then-new collection of neutral density and circular polarizer filters. Now, theyre improving their offerings with a new circular polarizer filter that they [...]

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I love creating mood and a dramatic atmosphere with my lighting. Ipredominately shoot fashion portraits and as well as the position of my lighting, I find adding gels can give a great creative edge to my images. This use of colored gels can produce a multitude ofdifferent effects from deep bold color to a more [...]

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From my experience, its true photographers tend to see the world in a different way. If not from the beginning, eventually, and maybe subconsciously, your eye is trained to notice details differently. Perhaps its the way light falls off of, or wraps around an object, or when pleasing geometrical compositions fall into place. In extreme cases, you may even start to catch glimpses of your cameras viewfinder layout when you blink (you might want to seek help for this).

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I know that you just grabbed that$500 Leicapen and am feeling quite luxurious, but considering what’s out there, you are still pretty low on the being excessively extravagant ladder. Brikk Designs house how is notorious for covering anything in gold (dog harnessanyone?), released a gold covered Nikon DF called theLUX Nikon Kit. It is aNikon [...]

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In many Photoshop 101 lessons they say that any adjustment to a photo can actually be achieved via a manipulation on the curves tool. While this may seem true, it is not really trivialto understand how each of theadjustment layers changes the curves. In fact some of the adjustment layers (like photo filters) don’t seem [...]

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