Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Despite amajor loss on the first generation of Spectacles, Snap Inc. doesnt seem to give up. According to a recent report, the company plans to launch the second generation of camera sunglasses. This time, they might launch two different products: a new and improved line of Spectacles and a fancier version with two cameras, more […]

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Water, water, everywhere. Your challenge this week it to photograph water in some way – it could be the liquid form or frozen in the form of ice. Pick flowing water or still water. Capture it frozen in time or with motion. The choice is yours.

Water droplet photography and refraction make for great images.

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Instagram keeps adding new features to the app, some of them inspired by Snapchat or Instagrams parent company, Facebook. A recent report shows that Instagram may soon add another new feature to the app: voice calls and video calls. As TechCrunch writes, a leaked code shows that icons and files for these two features are […]

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As if Facebook’s photo rules and regulations didn’t seem stupid enough already. Now, according to Business Insider, they’re banning people for posting photographs of 30,000-year-old statues that have appeared in history books for decades. The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1cm (4.4″) all figurine estimated to have been made sometime between 28,000 and 25,000 BCE. […]

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Here’s a quick video of five fun ideas and tips for photographing water from the team over at COOPH.

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Let’s have a look at them one by one:

  1. Frame your subject in ice – we’ve covered that topic in more detail here: How to do Frozen Object Photography at Home.
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It seems that with every new smartphone release, DxO has to offer up a new standard. It’s not surprising, though, really. Mobile phone camera technology is advancing at a pretty ridiculous pace. So, it makes sense that with each new flagship phone release, things get better and better. But it’s happening with alarming frequency. Less […]

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The selfiehas been a subject of many studies, and its often connected with a negative outcome. A recent paper shows another disturbing trend: people dont like how they look in selfies, which makes them turn to plastic surgery. The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (AAFPRS) has revealed in a recent poll the […]

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Trashing someone all over the internet is not an adequate way to express your dissatisfaction with their services. A bride from Canada learned this the hard way after the court ordered her to pay $115,000 CAD (nearly $89,500) for trashing a wedding photographer online and ruining her business. As CBC reports, the business in questions […]

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WPPI has been a good one this year for gear announcements. We’ve got the very impressive looking new Sony A7III cameraand a whole slew of new E-Mount Art series lenses from Sigma. A couple of new entry level bodies from Canon as well as the new EOS M50 mirrorless. We’ve also seen a new AD200 […]

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It’s fun to be creative with your photos, elevating them beyond a digital image and into painterly style art instead. Perhaps you have a great shot of your dog but the neighbor’s bright red car is distracting in the background. Maybe your kid was cute at the park but the swings are poking into one side of the shot. It might be nice to make a festive or birthday card for a relative with the personal touch.

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