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Over the last few years, cheap lenses have become a big thing, and it’s driven the prices of a number of old cheap lenses right back up to where they used to be when new. This video from Mathieu Stern of the WeirdLens Challenge presents us with his top seven tips to buying cheap lenses [...]

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Today, Instagram have introduced a new look. While a little more flashy than the previous polaroidesque icon, they state that the new one represents a simpler camera with the familiar rainbow living on in gradient form. While the icon itself seems to have gotten more outgoing, the app has been cleaned down to a more [...]

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Photographing popular tourist destinations can at times be a great challenge. Hundreds of people are walking within your frame, and regardless of the direction youre facin,g its nearly impossible to capture an image without people in it.

I often visit beautiful landscapes, many of which are popular among tourists, even though I prefer to shoot more unique locations, and enjoy photographing in quite areas where its nothing but nature and me. So when I visit extremely crowded... more

19 year old Courtney Marie Mulkentine from Gympie, Queensland, posted photos of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend to Facebook and removed them afterMulkentine receiveda phone call from the victim, but by then it was too late. After pleading guilty to “using an electronic carriage service to harass or offend”, theAustralian teenager has been banned from using social [...]

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Macro ring flashes can be expensive, but trying to shoot macro without external lighting of some kind can be extremely difficult. Canon are hopingto do something about this with a new EF-M f/3.5 28mm STM macro lens for Canon Mirrorless cameras, if these leaked photos are true. Bearing a plastic mount, it seems that this [...]

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If a photo is worth 1000 words and a clip has 24 frames a second, how would you even rate an 8K timelapse? VideographerMartin Heckchallenges the assumption that such a movie can be described with words at all (I vote no). Aside the obvious technical challenges of making a100,000 photos time-lapse while traveling 7500 kilometers [...]

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If you are a French parent who likes posting their kid’s photos all over the internet, we have same bad news for you. The Telegraph noticed that the privacy laws in France are pretty strict. How strict, you ask? Strict to the point that your offspring can sue you for infringing on their right to [...]

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Pre-visualizing is an art form, that I believe, is not taught enough these days. It is the foundation for an artist or photographer to establish lighting, background, foreground... more

In January, the photographer Zoe Strauss made a bracing plea on her Facebook page. The artist, whose work had been recognized by the Whitney Biennial and Magnum Photos, and was the subject of a traveling survey exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was out of money, needing $750 for a root canal, owing [...]

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What are your most memorable moments as a photographer? As a travel photographer, my short list of stand-out moments include wandering alone in Namibias dead tree forest, photographing sunbeams from the top of a cliff in China, and capturing the Aurora Borealis on the coast of Iceland.

However, a year ago all of those amazing locations and moments were trumped by spending 30 minutes photographing a little girl outside her home near Villa de Leyva, Colombia (pictured above). This... more

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