Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Note: For this tutorial I am using Photoshop CS6, however every version from CS2 up will work for this technique.

What is Infrared Photography?

Infrared (IR) light lies just beyond the visible spectrum, so we cant actually see it with the naked eye. However, IR photography allows us to view this spectrum with a camera, to capture a whole new world of invisible light.

In basic terms, anything that reflects a lot of infrared light, will appear red in IR photography.... more

Sony was always a weird player in the action cam arena. While everyone was doing GoPro like cameras (aside contour, maybe), they were sticking to their weird camcorderdesign. But now it seems that their different form factor is also holding some best in market features. Most notably is stabilized 4K recording. Sony released two new [...]

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If you were to mention the term ‘formal analysis’ to an art historian today, you’d probably be told it’s pass. No one really tries to objectively compare one painting against another using formal concepts anymore. However, formal analysisor the concepts that it identifieddoes still present some interesting ideas, especially for photographers. Swiss art historian Heinrich [...]

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Becoming a travel photographer or filmmakerhas had a resurgence in the last few years. It’s one of those markets of photography that took a little dip for a while as cameras got into the hands of more people. Suddenly, companies didn’t need to send photographers to far flung corners of the globe any more. It [...]

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After the sun goes down it’s a great time to get out and photography in the city. Here are some good examples of photography in the city at night to give you some ideas.

Weekly Photography Challenge – City at Night

By Andrew Xu

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You may remember Laowa fully funded their new12mm f/2.8 lens kickstarter within 30 seconds of going live last month. Thanks to the claims of high quality and “Zero Distortion” (or really close to it), people took notice andthey pre-sold over 700 lenses. At the time of the campaign launch, one of the videos for the [...]

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Recently I spent a few days in the marvellous city of New York. It’s a great place for all kinds of photography, but I love doing night shooting there. So this week I thought I’d share some of my shots from my NYC trip and some other people’s night photography work in a city.

My NYC night shots

Shot in and around Times Square.

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Long known throughout the world for quality, Zeiss are the first name many think of when it comes to luxury lenses. Today, Zeiss have announced three new lenses; 15mm f/2.8, 18mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/2 for both Nikon and Canon. These lenses are part of Zeiss’sMilvus line, designed to “fulfill the requirements of todays powerful [...]

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Growing up in England, home to brown bears, wolves, wolverines and woolly mammoths, photographer Nick Brandt noticedsomething. Like most of us, he spottedthatthey weren’t around any more. Mankind had encroached upon their territory and essentially wiped them out. Or at least, led to the cause of their demise long before any of us were ever [...]

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Back in 2006 when I first started getting serious about photography, I found Strobist.com and was instantly hooked. I followed every tip and technique that David Hobby had to offer from the beginning and it didn’t take long before I had a set of six Nikon SB-800’s and was lighting everything Strobist style. Eventually, I [...]

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