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Has anyone ever saidto you, Thats a nice photo, you must have an expensive camera!?

According to photography legend Ansel Adams, The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Your camera is simply a tool, that you use to create your vision of the scene in front of you.A camera can only do what you tell it, so it’s not going to capture that “nice photo” all by itself. But, what if the camera doesn... more



For the last couple of years, I have been involved in the planning process for the Fuji X-Pro 2. I've been using a pre-production unit since October. One of the photos I did for them (the only one where I used flash, actually) is the miniature chrysanthemum seen above.

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It is a good thing to break from the norm once in a while, and do something different to challenge your personal photography. Limiting yourself to a few rules could help with this and encourages you to learn something new.

One new thing to try, is to use anchor colours in your photography. An anchor colour could be any colour that does one or more of the following:

  • Dominates the picture
  • Makes the picture interesting
  • Draws the viewer to explore elements in... more

Lightroom is a popular choice for post-processing software for many photographers. There are many common mistakes newbies make when using it – and losing some of their photos is one of those.

In this video Phil Steele will show you how to find lost or missing photos and prevent it from happening again:

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Seattle-based Corbis Corporation has announced that its massive collection of over 100 million images and 800,000 video clips has been sold to Visual China Group, a Chinese investment company whose majority owner is Getty Images. Corbis, originally founded by Bill Gates in 1990, announced this morning that all still and motion picture archives, along with [...]

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GoPro cameras are meant to take a beating. But accidents do happen and sometimes you can end up scratching or cracking the lens of a GoPro. Thankfully, YouTube user MicBergsma, who weve featured many times before, has shared a quick and simple way to replace the lens on your GoPro. All it takes is a [...]

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Previously I shared 26 solid images of heavy itemsdone by other photographers. Things like:

  • trains
  • planes
  • automobiles
  • machines
  • large animals
  • things made of steel and metal
  • heavy metal bands if you want to stretch the meaning

You get the idea. We know this thing is heavy! On the arms and the pocketbook!

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Film might not be dead, but its about to get a whole lot more expensive for Fujifilm fans. TheJapanese multinational photography and imaging companyhas announced it will be raising prices for all of its film, again. If you remember, last July, Fujifilm announced it was increasing the price of its film stocks by 20% and [...]

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Earlier we looked at images of lightweight objects and how some photographers captured their essence.

So how about some heavy items? Large, bulky, hefty, ominous. How would you photograph a large heavyweight thing? Let’s see how these photographers did it:

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Here is a quick glance on how susceptible we are to trends. RedditorCarVac noticed that every year in December the searched on Google for Bokeh are spiking. Now, this could of course be a coincidence, but the spikes have been there every year since 2009 and I think eight years definitely establish a trend. Why [...]

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