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For many years the gold standard for posing groups looked just like my first grade school photo. Everybody would be lined up and asked to stand as awkwardly as possible, feet together and for the lucky ones in the front, hands clasped together in their laps.

The photographer would shoot two frames (one for safety) and count every one in with a “1..2..3…say cheese” my grade one teacher Mrs. Witchell was way too cool to do cheese. She busted out her own version of Blue... more

If you look at any of today’s high-end commercials you’d soon waive them off with ‘that was done in post’ kinda comment and or most you’d be right. But in this short flick cinematographer Matthew E. Rosen of underground logic shares 7 tips on shooting low budget / high-end look special effects. Now, while there is something [...]

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Editor’s note: this week we will be featuring a series of articles on posing for portraits. Look for a new one each day. If you miss any make sure you subscribe to our newsletter and you’ll get a reminder of all our articles once a week.

Let’s face it – unless you are working with professional models who know exactly what to do, and how to pose in front of the camera with little to no direction from the photographer, most of your clients,... more

Master teacher Phil Steele brings us a video on how to shoot bracketed images and merge them into and HDR image using the new Merge to HDR function in Lightroom 6 (or CC).

HDR is something that gets a bit of a bad rap and people seem to either love it or hate it. It’s one of those... more

You know that feeling when you like some type of food so much that you start seeing it in people? No? Me neither, but you might start after seeing this next series of photos. In his latest project, ‘Cara-Comida’ (Face-Food), Brazilian photographer Junior Luz took food photography to another level as he turned his friends [...]

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Nikon’s 500mm and 600mm f/4G ED VR lenses are rumored to be updated in the near future, with a fluorite element being added to each. The aging lenses were announced in 2007 and will be smaller and lighter, though more expensive, thanks to the new technology. The flagship D5 should also be announced before the [...]

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Editor’s note: this week we will be featuring a series of articles on posing for portraits. Look for a new one each day. If you miss any make sure you subscribe to our newsletter and you’ll get a reminder of all our articles once a week.

Headshots today are not what they used to be. Gone are the days of marbled backdrops in an indoor... more

First off, allow me to preface this post by saying that I regard anything coming from Photography Is Not a Crime with suspicion. From what I’ve learned in life, anyone who is that dogmatic about something is typically biased. With that out of the way, PINAC posted a video showing a June 11th run-in with [...]

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One of the things I used to hate when perusing my path as a photographer is when I reached a point where I was uninspired to shoot, or I’d reach a point where I’d feel that my best work is behind me and there is nothing new I can do. These creative dry spells used to happen [...]

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I’m going to start with a small admission… I’ve always been about brand-name stuff. There, I said it…

I have had Canon cameras since the a5 (it was the small, boxy predecessor of the Ixus range) and before that, Nikon film cameras (and during, come to think of it) and have always had the mindset that I should purchase Canon lenses for my Canon cameras, always thought that I should buy well known lights and tripods and… (the list, it goes on and on)

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