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Starting from 2018, drone laws in the UK could become a lot stricter. The new draft legislation proposes that all drones weighing over 250g are banned from flying near airports or above 400ft altitude. Additionally, the users may be required to take a safety awareness test if they want to operate their drone. As BBC […]

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Most of us have posted childhood photos of ourselves on social networks. However, singer Bruno Mars is facing a lawsuit for doing it. Photographer Catherine McGannis reportedly suing the singer for posting the photo of himself, which she took back in 1989. The photo in question shows Bruno Mars being the worlds youngest Elvis impersonator. […]

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I initially took up photography for one simple reason – I couldn’t draw. My 16-year-old self reasoned that photography must be pretty easy. Just point the camera and shoot, right? But as I worked away in the high school darkroom, I realized how powerful the camera is for artistic output. And as I built up my own photographic practice, I got to see another side of photography too, its therapeutic qualities.

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The team at Aputure via Kayell Australia (thanks) sent me the Aputure Light Storm COB 120D LED studio light to try out and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing! I had planned a... more

A few weeks ago Adobe renamed Lightroom to Lightroom Classic and re-launched Lightroom as cloud connected Lightroom CC. Aside from making everyone really confused, some concernsrose about how will this actually work in terms of licensing Lightroom (just see some of the comments on this post). As most things Adobe, everyone will probably migrate to […]

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Self-assessment after a year-long journey through uncharted waters. By definition the answer is simple: Its yes. Well done. Have a chocolate. So going with this definition everybody with the capability to take a picture is a photographer. Thats all right but for what I want to know though this definition is too broad to apply. […]

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Should you bother to learn about metering modes? I’m confident I can sell you on it. Your camera’s automatic metering will only carry you so far. As your digital photography ability grows, you’ll start to feel frustrated in scenes with mixed light. Learning metering modes is the key to making tricky light conditions seem much less intimidating.

Let’s jump right into this beginner’s guide to metering modes.

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Next up in our ongoing Photographer Spotlight series we have Micky Wiswedel. Micky is a Cape Town, South Africa based documentary, travel and outdoor adventure photographer. His work has been featured by Red Bull and Outside Magazine. He is the winner of the 2016 Red Bull Illume photo contest in the Wings category and he […]

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Have you ever taken a portrait and wished that the background were just a little bit more blurry? You can address background blur in-camera by changing either your aperture or the distance of your subject from the background. However, there’s also a relatively quick way to make slight adjustments to background blur in post-processing. In this article, we’ll be walking through how to use the Magnetic Lasso tool in Photoshop to slightly blur the background of your portraits and... more

If you are a creative going both video and photos and amassing a huge amount of data you may have considered both a dedicated storage and maybe a cloud service. Personally, I use a Synology 5 bay NAS as a second storage and BackblazeB2 as my cloud provider. The tip here is relevant for all […]

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