Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Last month, we shared with you a geeky crash course on the science of camera sensors, a short film from the team at Filmmaker IQ that took a look at the intricate light-sensitive devices that capture the images we take. Today, Filmmaker IQ has dropped their latest video, The Properties of Camera Lenses, which dives [...]

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So, youve decided you want to enter the wonderful world of wedding photography. Now its time to get prepared and arm yourself with as much know-how as possible. After all, you are going to be responsible for capturing the magic of this once-in-a-lifetime event no pressure!

Here are the top 10 things I have learned on my journey, that are valuable to anybody breaking in to the wedding photography business.

1) Experience and second shooting

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Storing photos while traveling can be tricky business. Thats why Samsung introduced its T-series hard drive lineup, the latest of which is now capable storing up to 2TB of storage using flash memory (no moving parts, thus less room for hard drive failure when dropped). These T3 drives improve upon their predecessor by offering more [...]

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Back in May artist (and I use that term lightly in this case) Richard Prince enraged photographers worldwide when he took photos from Instagram, added a comment on the photos and sold them in a New York gallery for up to $100,000 a piece. All this was done without getting permission from the owners of [...]

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Countless people, and among them many photographers, flocked to the vicinity of Dubais Burj Khalifa to get a good view of one of the most impressive fireworks displays on the planet. As you probably know by now, a nearby building caught on fire a few hours before the fireworks began and grabbed much of the [...]

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What do you do when youre the one responsible for making a photo go viral across the globe? Well, if youre Roland Hughes, Senior Producer for BBCs website, you document every facet of the experience and share how a single image hidden in a gallery of a local newspaper skyrocketed into popularity with the help [...]

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When Apple introduced its new iPhone lineup this past September one of the stand-out features was a display technology called 3D Touch. Designed to make touchscreen displays more valuable in terms of user interaction through pressure sensitive displays, the software/hardware hybrid functionality allows developers to make more rich interactions for their applications. With the exception [...]

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Well go ahead and avoid the argument of whether size matters (in photography, of course) and simply introduce this hilarious little short by photographer Serge Ramelli. Simply titled Size Matters the three minute video depicts two photographers battling it out for the attention of a red-haired woman reading a book at the park they happen [...]

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Think about the most interesting place that you could possibly go to take an incredible photograph. What comes to mind?

Maybe its Machu Picchu, New Zealand, Yosemite, a safari in Africa, a city like New York or Paris, or wherever is featured in the latest National Geographic Magazine. These locationsare very special occasions for travel and photography. However, theyare usually once in a lifetime... more

Cameras have been getting smaller and smaller with each passing year. This particular one might just take the cake thoughat least in the thinness category. Meet the Paper Retro Camera, a 6mm thin cardboard camera thats fully capable of capturing 1.3-megapixel stills, 720p video and audio. With a still image resolution of 1,280 1,024 [...]

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