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Whats in my bag? I dont have a bag. Well, I do have, but it is the size of my laptop. I see this question in 95% of interviews with street/urban photographers. Usually all of ordinary photographers out there hope to read that famous street photographer X or Y uses cheap camera that you can [...]

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I am not going to hide it, I am a big Think Tank fan. In fact the bag we used to carry around in photokina is a ThinkTankRoller Derby. I do own an Airport International as well (see review here), but if I need a laptop, it was out of the question. It has no [...]

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I have yet to meet someone who loves getting their picture taken with the whole extended family. The thought of getting all the dramatic aunts, crazy uncles, wild kids, and tired grandparents together and smiling all at the same time seems nearly impossible, and not at all fun. I know of many photographers who refuse to do big family portraits because they can be so unpleasant. I have grown to love big extended family portrait sessions throughout the years. You can too, whether you’re... more

It’s amazing how Instagram has taken on as a platform. Some use it as a marketing tool, but others has taken on the platform to create a new kind of engagement. (FollowDIYP’s insta here) Something that is part photography, part marketing, and part lifestyle. For some reason, Instagram has really taken of a a way [...]

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An ISISsniper is reported to havefatally shot Dutch photojournalist, Jeroen Oerlemans. The Guardian reports that the shooting took place in Sirte, a city over which ISIS have been fighting tocontrol for a year. Oerlemans had been there covering the ongoing conflict in Libya for Belgian publication, Knack. Eike den Hertog of the Beeldunie photo agency [...]

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Samyang brought autofocus into their range of lenses not too long ago with two new Sony E mount lenses. The 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4. Now, in a recent interview with Focus Numerique, Samyang head of product planning, Jeong Min Shin says that more are to come. In the interview, he talked about some of [...]

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Photographing concerts is not an easy task, especially indoor concerts. Often, you’ve got get dim lighting conditions. The lights you do have illuminating your scene are often extremes of one colour or another. They oversaturate your shot, you lose a lot of detail and information, especially in highlights and skintones, and your camera’s meter often [...]

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Tethered shooting is a photography technique that has been practiced by many professional photographers for years. In short, tethering allows you to connect your camera to a computer or tablet and almost instantly view your digital images on the device within seconds after it is captured. Due to expense and accessibility, tethered-shooting was generally reserved for photographers who do a lot of studio work andhigh-end commercial photo shoots. However, as tethering technology became... more

Recently, I wastasked with shooting a hotrod. It was exciting from the beginning, because thesekinds of cars are pretty rare here.The owner also wanted his dog sitting on the fender.When you hear that (from a photographer’s point of view), it does not sound that difficult to do. But the picture also has to be huge [...]

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So after the madness that was hurricane Photokina,I am trying to re-adjust to normal life, hence ashort post for you this week, as my body and mind recover! This weeks post is focussing on creating depth in your images. I was recently speaking to a friend on the subject, and came to the conclusion that [...]

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