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I was walking around a wild horse range in Utah this past summer, backing up, shifting one way then the other, looking for my shot, composing and recomposingwhen I almost stepped on this:

I freaked out. Very quietly, since I was almost standing on a snake and I dont want to disturb him any more than I already had but it was a Xanax moment. My fellow photographer assured me that it was a bull snake out for a sunbath and that no self-respecting rattlesnake would have let me get... more

Ansel Adams is one of the titans of photographic history. When I started as a photographer, I was primarily interested in landscape photography. I studied and consumed the work of Adams. What drew me most to his work was the minimalism, zen, and the sense of calm from his photographs. I learned early on that [...]

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The actual title for the latest video tutorial by Phlearn is “How to create a Packaging Design Mockup in Photoshop”, but it’s so much more than that. There is no doubt thatthe ability to create product packaging mockups is valuable. Maybe we’re doing it for ourselves, or maybe it’s for a client. But it’s something [...]

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A lot of us modify our to make things better suit the tasks we need them to perform. Sometimes we do it just to speed up workflow a little. Rarely, however, are the modifications quite as extreme as the Nikon D5500a from Primaluce Lab. Based on aNikon D5500this camera has had thestock CMOS sensor switched [...]

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Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, the Library of Congress Packard Campus was originally built as a nuclear bunker. It stored $4 billion in gold, and would’ve been the location to which the President would have been taken had the need arisen during the Cold War.Now that this potential need [...]

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A lot has been said about the new GoProHero5 Black and Hero5 Session cameras since their recent release.The new touchscreen LCD has received a lot of praise, as has the fact that you can finally use it underwater without an external housing. But the resolutions and frame rates haven’t changed since the Hero4 Black. Sohow [...]

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There are lots of ways to use color in photography. One is to look for strong, complementary colors those on opposing sides of the color wheel and include them in the same frame. The opposite is to use a very limited color palette.

Heres an example of the first approach. Theres a green background, purple petals, and yellow stamen. Three strong colors, working together to... more

For those that haven’t heard the name Chase Jarvis, he’s basically the guy who kicked off the whole mobilephotography thing, amongst other accolades. In 2009, Chase released a book called The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You. It’s interesting viewing, filled withimages shot usingearly iPhones. Alongside the book was an accompanying iPhone app [...]

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Do you enjoy portrait photography? Are you a Lightroom user? You’re going to love what we’ve just released today!

It’s our all new Adobe Lightroom presets bundle: 101 Lightroom Portrait Presets.


With our new presets pack, transforming your portrait shots is a breeze.

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Anybody who’s ever used strong neutral density filters knows aboutcolour casts. Whether it’s the B+W 10 Stop or the Lee Big Stopper, they’re just inevitable. Each filter presents a different colour cast. The same filter can also offer a different colour cast on different camera bodies. The typical way to deal with it is to [...]

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