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Nest Cam got a lot of things right when they created their home security camera series. It showssuch incredible promise as a powerful timelapse camera, but by screwing up the software, they shot themselves in the foot in what could have been the easiest-to-use high-quality timelapse camera out there. Here’s how they got things wrong, [...]

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With all the gear announcements lately, it’s easy to miss a relatively small name like Godox, but they’ve just announced some updates to their popular Lithium-ion powered range of flash units, and theirQT600 studio strobes. The big news here is thatGodox have also added Sony TTL to the Godox X series of 2.4Ghz radio triggers [...]

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A huge part of your job as a photographer is to make people pause, and linger over a photograph. Sometimes it could be a stunningly lit portrait, or maybe an epic landscape. But, if you’re like me, more than likely you don’t live in an area that will provide you with daily majestic shots, and you likely don’t have a full studio set up. So, you need to find inspiration around you, in the day-to-day grind, which is not always obvious.

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If you are doing anything that has to do with lighting, you know the value ofLighting Diagrams and setup shots as a teaching tool (we use them a lot here on DIYP). But usually they are boring photos with descriptions of flash settings and iso points. PhotographerJoey Hernandez decided that no more! none of his [...]

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Leica cameras are a funny beast in the world of photography. It’s hard to keep respect for a brand that seems to be more keen to create Panda-editions of their cameras for the Chinese market, and $600 cigarette lighters. Having said that, it’s hard to deny that Leica – and especially the special edition cameras [...]

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Tether Tools has announced the Case Relay system, a camera attachment that they claim to be the worlds first device that will allow you to provide uninterrupted power to your camera using a standard wall outlet or USB battery pack, such as the ones you use to charge up your smartphone. The device itself isnt [...]

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For their second video on image editing and retouching, YouTube channel Lensvid shows how you can quickly and simply enhance greens in landscape images using Photoshop. As explained in the 4-minute video, greens can be difficult to work with, as Photoshops built-in color selection tool doesnt often recognize greens as you would expect. Instead of [...]

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Action and adventure are two adjectives commonly used alongside footage captured with GoPro action cams. But not everything captured with a GoPro needs to be a Red Bull-fueld rampage of adrenaline. Take for example this video posted by YouTuber, husband and father Dan Iverson. During a family game of hide-and-seek, Iverson and his wife attached [...]

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If you want to learn more about using flash for creating portraits, pick up Gina’s brand new dPS ebook: Fast Flash for Portrait Perfection. Now on sale for an introductory price for a limited time only.

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Polaroid has devolved from one of the most commanding photography companies in the world to a label that gets slapped on third party accessories in an attempt to sell at least something. Proving this further is the release of a brand new portable Polaroid Panorama Eyeball Head, designed to simplify the process of taking panoramic [...]

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