Photography Blogs & Tutorials

These are actually from last year’s Black Friday sales, but they’re too funny to not share for those who missed them. Created by serial prankster Obvious Plant(AKA, Jeff Wysaki) these fake flyers were placed in Target last year to promote some pretty good deals. Thinking about switching over to a standing desk for your photo […]

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Even with the fastest lenses and top-end DSLR cameras, catching fast movement inyour wildlife photos can be tricky. The physical speed of your autofocus may not be able tokeep up with and track a moving subject. Away from the limitations of your equipment,you may find that you miss a flutter of wings or fightbetween two animals.

Luckily, there are some things you can do to overcome both problems. Here are my top tips for successfully capturing action in your wildlife photos.... more

It’s no secret. Copyright theft is rife on the Internet. Finding online photo thieves tosend DMCA takedown notices and a bill is even a full time job for some people. But what if you want to look for yourself? Well, there are a few services out there, but checking them all individually, manually, can be […]

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Now this is an idea I think we can all get behind. Anything that keeps us charged faster and for longer while out shooting can’t be bad. So, imagine being able to go out and shoot as much as you want for as long as you want without having to worry about your battery life […]

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In the past, the thought of making your own lens would probably seem like a fairly impossible mission. For most of us, it still seems pretty out of reach. Not for determined photographer and weird lensmaster, Mathieu Stern, though, who created his own 3D printed lens. Making your own 135mm f/1.8 has to come with […]

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This tutorial is a lot of fun, transforming photographs into kaleidoscopic wonders, often with surprising results. The resulting kaleidoscope patterns make fantastic desktop backgrounds and wallpapers too.

Remember kaleidoscopes? Those curious tubes with an array of mirrors and colorful beads inside? As a kid, I would while away sunny weekends straining my eye against the viewing aperture, hypnotized by the endless combination of shapes, patterns, and colors. Although I now spend most... more

For American rock band OK Go, boundary pushing music videos have become the standard. They’ve done the long one-shot takes with crazy optical illusions, shot with a massively co-ordinated cast of dancers,andthey’ve even levitated in zero G. Now, they’ve done it again with their latest music video for new song, The One Moment. The entire […]

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Shooting video in hot sweaty dance clubs is thirsty work. But one ambitious young filmmaker has managed to solve that problem. Using his DJI Roninupside-down, Israeli photographer and filmmaker Oleg Balzanov manages to keep refreshed while he films and dances. It’s not a new idea, but it is the first time I’ve ever actually seen […]

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Earlier in the week we revealed the DSLRs that were best selling among our readers over the last few months. While DSLRs are still the most popular type of readers among our readers this last quarter has seen a big rise in the number of you using compact system/mirrorless cameras.

In fact if we combined the two lists we’d now see compact system cameras in the top 20 cameras... more

Although some quite enjoyed the idea of seeing Getty get a good legal spanking for once, that is not how things are turning out. US District Court JudgeJed S. Rakoff has dismissed all of Carol Highsmith’s federal copyright claims. After the dismissal on October 28th, he left three of Highsmith’s state law claims intact. Those, […]

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