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If you already own a hot shoe strobe you already have one of the most powerful tools for shaping light. Now, if you only took it off camera it would do a great deal to the final image. And you’d be surprised at how low of a cost it actually takes to move a hot [...]

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In this article I’m going to discuss the equipment you will need to create great product photography. I built my setup to provide great versatile lighting, speed, and the ability to cut out the product in post production very quickly and accurately. This setup can be used for still life, food, fine art and even some macro work.

When I first started doing product photography I was hired by a company to reshoot their entire 3200 piece inventory. Needless to say that was a... more

I’m not entirely sure what they thought they were doing when Huaweipostedthis shot to Google Plus. Did they forget to rip the EXIF data out of it before doing so? Or did they just not realise that Google told the world exactly what camera an image was shot with? There’s been a lot of talk [...]

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The golden ratio isn’t really something I think about much, or at all, when composing a photograph. Butif it’s something you’ve wanted to start applying more toyour compositions, then now you can do so with thishandy dandy new pocket sized golden ratio view finder from Areaware. Dating back to Euclid’s Elements over 2,300 years ago, [...]

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As more and more of our clients are becoming familiar with being in front of the camera (Thanks, Facebook!), people today tend to present themselves the way they want the world to see them, rather than as the people they actually are. In this video, photographer Sean Tucker talks about the difference between simply takingsomebody’s [...]

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Lightroom is kind of like a Swiss Army Knife or, better yet, a Leatherman Wave, in that it does so many things and is an invaluable program for many photographersamateur, professional, or anywhere in between. Regardless of whether you’re the kind of person who prefers presets, or someone who likes scooting sliders, there are four options hidden in plain sight, right on the Basic panel of the... more

While many willbe preparing their own camera bagsright now and getting ready to recordthe evening’s festivities andcelebrate American history, one photographer captures American history-in-the-making on an almost daily basis. That photographer is Pete Souza, who has followed President Obama with his cameras since 2005. By the end of Obama’s tenure, Souza believes he will have [...]

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“That guy” has been around since the dawn of photography, but with the ever advancing selfie generation, it just seems to be getting worse and worse. You try to take a group photo, and one person always seems to want to be the centre of attention, or just doesn’t know how to not screw up [...]

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Forget Mr.White, today we’re Breaking Clay! I am a long time follower ofClay Cook, and one thing that always amazes me is his softly lit group shots. I mean soft light for one person is easy, but a group is a whole other story. I sat with Clay (well, virtually sat with Clay) and asked [...]

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If you’ve only got one flash, or you’re about to dive into flash, and aren’t sure how many lights you need, or which lights to get in order to shoot portraits, then you’ll probably want to watch this video from Joe Edelman. In it, you’ll see that it’s really not about how many lights you [...]

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