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There’s something special about shooting analogueblack and white for me. It takes on a quality and a character you just don’t get with modern colour digital. Fortunately, now, we have a choice. So, if we want to shoot flawless colour, we can. A hundred years ago, there wasn’t so muchchoice. We’ve featured Mathieu Stern before. [...]

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I often do a poll during my workshops: Raise your hand if you dont like having your own photo being taken. Usually more than half of my students raise their hands. Do onto others as you would like others to do onto you. If you dont like having your own photographs taken, you assume everyone [...]

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Seeingcamera gear dismantled can be like watching a horror movie forsome photographers. For me, it’s fascinating. It’s interestingseeing the tech that goes into the new generations of lenses. It’salso cool to see how manufacturers overcomecertain design challenges. This episode ofSgnl, seesthe Sony FE24-70mm f/2.8 G Master lens stripped down to its component parts. It’s not [...]

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Here is something I never thought I’ll see, but sometimes the real world provide the most awesome nuggets. In their most recent newsletter, Adobe wanted to highlight some Lightroom features. Their way of doing so was to basically say that you don’t need to worry about anything camera related. Just fix it all with Lightroom [...]

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Sometimes you have to build your own decisive moment, and it can take some time. It was another normal saturday park walk, my camera was carelessly hanging from my right hand as I walked with a few not-that-great shots on the memory card. By that time I already had made peace with the fact that [...]

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Today we launched a brand new dPS course to help you get total control over Adobe Lightroom.

For a short time you can grab it with a 50% off early bird discount.

Are you frustrated with the time you’re spending perfecting your photos in Lightroom?

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Klauea is an active shield volcano in Hawaii. It isthe most active of five which make upthe island. During a flyover by with Paradise Helicopters,documentary makerMick Kalbercaptured what can only be described as a giant smiley.It appears that nature is not without a sense of humour. The volcano is somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 years [...]

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Lets face it, we photographers are always looking for new stuff to add to our bag of tricks.

As a studio photographer with almost 20 years experience, I have found myself repurposing a lot of stuff to use as photography tools in my photoshoots. I came to the conclusion that most of the stuff I have around the studio, or in my camera bag didnt came from photography equipment stores, but rather from the supermarket, home improvement stores, or even one dollar stores.

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With film’s second demise looking more imminent with each Fuji announcement,wet plate photography getsmore and more appealing. Don’t get me wrong, I primarily shoot digital, but I enjoy the process of creatinganalogue. It not because it “forces me to slow down” or anything arty. It’s just relaxing, especially developing it. In this video, portrait photographer [...]

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No longer do you have to worry overwhether you’re spamming you stream with too many images. Introduced today,Instagram Stories lets you share moments of your day, grouped together as a slideshow. Interestingly, at a time when SnapChat is adding features to make content a little more permanent, Instagram Stories seems to be going the other [...]

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