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If you are doing a lot of outdoor shooting using hot shoe strobes, you need to find a way to place them in three dimensional space. Of course, the trivial way is to use a light stand. But if you shoot in anything other than an open space, photographerChris Cameron has a nice tip to [...]

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Landscape photography is a passion many photographers share. You don’t need a lot of special gear like lighting equipment, and you can do it anywhere.

 

The challenge is to make your photos a cut above the rest, so they stand out in a crowd. So, how do you do that? Well for starters you can read through the following articles and get some tips. Then plan a day and go out and shoot some landscapes.

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Over the past year, photographer Vincent Laforet has been capturing stunning images of cities around the world for his AIR project. Strapped into a harness and hanging from a helicopter, Laforest hastravelled around the globe to New York, Barcelona, Berlin, Sydney and more to capture the intricate networks of city streets and lights that weve [...]

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So, Santa brought you a GoPro for the holidays and youre looking for something extreme and crazy to film with it. Well, youre in luck, because weve come across one of the most impressive GoPro tests weve ever seen. Its called the GoPro Cannon and it comes from the brilliant minds behind Eclectical Engineering, David [...]

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This holiday season, drones and Star Wars are some of the most talked about items to be had. Thus, its only natural that we see the two come together for a little holiday celebration. Meet Arturo, the self-proclaimed worlds first actual flying R2D2 drone. Created by aerial cinematographer Don Melara in partnership with aerial photography [...]

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We hope you’re already in full swing of your holidays and having a great time with family and friends.Just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know what to expect here in dPS over the next week or so, in case you got some new photography gadgets and are itching to try them out.

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Over the last 12 days we’ve presented you with some amazing daily deals on photography training resources in our 6th annual 12 days of Christmas.

The savings this year were our biggest yet and we had a lot of really positive feedback from readers who picked up some fantastic deals.

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At only 1000$, there is no other product on the market that gives you fully motorized 3-axis stabilization with shock absorbers for (rated) 1.6kg. Stabilization: Although they market it as “5-axis image stabilization”, the spring loaded handles serve more as dampeners and shock absorbers than true 5-axis stabilization. That being said, they do work rather [...]

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President Obamas official photographer, Pete Souza, released his Year on Instagram collection featuring only square format photos taken on his iPhone. As youd expect, the collection does not include formal photos with world leaders and such, instead it offers a behind-the-scenes look of daily events at the White House as well as on the presidents [...]

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Photographer Nicky Bay headed to the Amazons tropical rainforests, but he wasnt after the jaguars, anacondas, sloths or piranhas the region is so famous for. Instead, being a macro photography, Nicky set out to document the creatures so small they are often overlooked or disregarded. If you like creepy-crawlies you will love these photos. If [...]

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