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Last year I was given an incredible opportunity to travel to the US for three and half weeks just to take photos. My trip was sponsored by an amazing woman, whichspurred me to try and get other sponsors for my photography.When you are travelling you cant take everything with you, so being able to get a lens that could handle a lot of the scenes that I wanted to shoot was very handy. To be able to go from a wide angle view, then zoom right in, was going to be a great lens for travelling, I... more

If you, like me bundle up your USB and short power cables on travel, color coding them may be very helpful for getting them untangled quickly. If the cable are color coded, and you did not make too much of a mess when bundling them with a cable tie, you should just be able to [...]

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Atomos have announced at NAB2016 that they are allowing owners of Atomos recorders to update their firmware to all of their devices except the Ninja 2, giving everybody the ability to record HDR video absolutely free. Now, I know what you’re thinking. HDR. It’s usually pretty hideous, overdone, ugly, etc., but when it comes to [...]

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It’s a fact of life these days for photographers that our work maybe stolen if we post it online. No matter what level of photography we’re at, if you post enough images to the web, it’s simply become an inevitable consequence of sharing out work with the masses. Sometimes it’s an honest mistake, somebody loves [...]

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Some people prefer to use continuous light and some prefer strobes, but if you combine the two you get a certain kind of magic. The continuous light gives you thesmearing effect you would get from dragging the shutter, while the strobe will freeze the action. PhotographerErik Christian used that fact to create compelling portraitsfor a [...]

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There’s no way around it, our world is dominated by electronic devices. In these days of the super computers in our pockets we call cellphones, as well astablets, smart watches and the countless other gadgets whichmake up the Internet of Things, one mother is taking things back to basics. In an ongoing project, New Zealand [...]

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I was recently at an interactive installation that had three theater lights – red green and blue shining on a white wall. The kids were fascinated by this – especially with how the colors mixed and how they could make different colors by casting shadows on the wall. This is a human scale representation of [...]

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Over the past year, adult coloring books have become a trend so massive that pencil manufacturers are having a difficult time keeping up. While you could head on over to Amazon to pick up your very own adult coloring book, a new company called Color Me Book will make you a completely customized one based [...]

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Wikipedia defines light painting as “A photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or to shine a point of light directly at the camera.” In essence, with a basic DSLR, a tripod, and a light source of some kind, you have endless possibilities to create unique images. This technique is a way to unleash your imagination and inner artist – this article will show you... more

Recently posted to Reddit, is Mathieu Stern’s intriguing short film project “Alone in Paris“. While Mathieu promises that a Behind The Scenes video is coming in a week or so, it’s always fun to speculate how things like this can be created. Some of the theories have already been shot down over on the Reddit [...]

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