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Circular lines are a great way to draw your viewer into the photo. The animation artists knew what they were doing with the Looney Tunes design. A similar effect is possible in photography through a process known as kinetic light painting. This technique involves moving the camera around in front of stationary lights, creating a pattern in your photo. If you use camera rotation you can create circular light lines.

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I feel that there’s a word missing from our vocabulary, and this essay is the culmination of an effort to find such a word, to define it usefully, and to work through some of what it might mean. Consider these two pictures: The first one I shot specifically to test a camera-clubby sort of online […]

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When Nikon put a couple of SB-5000 speedlights on a drone for their launch of the D500, I was pretty impressed. I was also a little jealous. It was something I’d wanted to try myself, but didn’t have access to the kind of drones I’d need to lift them. Now, photographer David Robinson has upped […]

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Its fair to say that the majority of the time taking photos you aren’t going to have any problems. As long as you are mindful of who or what you are photographing, and are courteous and careful you will have no problems. But at some point in your photography journey, you might find that you do get into trouble. The good news is that in the majority of cases it wont be more than a telling off, but sometimes things can escalate. The best plan is to avoid this situation in the first place... more

For those of you who haven’t been paying much attention for the last couple of weeks,there’s been a bit of anInstagram stalking thing going on. At least, that’s the story beingportrayed. Instagrammer Lauren Bullen has a very large following. She travels the world and documents her adventures. “Diana Alexa” is, apparently, following in her footsteps. […]

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With travel photography, one of the issues is prioritising equipment. You simply cant carry everything you could possibly want to bring. If you do then it often hampers the overall travel experience as youre weighed down by equipment and have to constantly look after it. For me, on my current trip that meant I couldnt […]

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It can take a while to figure out what does and doesn’t work in Photoshop for new photographers. We’ve all been there. We’ve discovered some new tool or technique, and we go overboard. We think it looks amazing, we start doing it to every image, but we’re really doing ourselves more harm than good. In […]

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Everyone loves buying new gear, but not the bills that go with it. So why not try making some of your own accessories? Here are three videos that will give you some ideas for DIY photography hacks you can make at home.

This first one is from the guys over at COOPH(Cooperative of Photography). They present for you:

9 Easy Tricks and Hacks to Up Your DIY Photography Game

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Every once in awhile we stumble across a really cool time lapse. This is the case withUrbanique Chicago byChris Biela. This 4K timelapse was shot in Chicago for a little over8 months, and has amassed quite an impressive amount of footage – 65k photos and 250 clips. While you may think that the darkness and […]

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You know that whole “was this photo shopped” debate? Well, things are going to get much worse. Adobe just showed a new tech they callVoCo. Here is how Adobe describes it: “#VoCo allows you to change words in a voiceover simply by typing new words“. And the demo that Adobe showed in AdobeMAX did exactly […]

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