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As a landscape photographer, it can be easy to find stunning subject matter to photograph during the day. At night, things become more difficult as the sun goes down, but there is still plenty to photograph. With some patience, you can create stunning images featuring the stars as your backdrop, or even your subject.

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If you’re relatively new to photography, studio lighting can seem like a whole other world. If you’re like me when I started with studio lighting, you probably have a pretty decent camera and have seen a noticeable improvement in the quality of your photography as you have learned to work with natural light. But sooner [...]

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How is your halloween going? Any interesting shoots? Sometimes creating a scary photoshoot is not the most trivial thing. Even if the makeup and model are perfect, there is the issue of location, cobwebs and that stray ray of light that lights accidently lights that skull you have on the shelf. This is why we [...]

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When it comes to studio accessories, photographers are spoiled for choice. There are a lot of great options available, whether they be dedicated studio tables, extra large reflector panels or even backgrounds that studio lights are fitted onto. These accessories can all be brilliant, but one thing they are usually not is portable. They can also be cost prohibitive. What do you do if you get into a conversation with an acquaintance or a shop-owner, and they ask you to do some photos for them... more

Last month we shared a report coming from South Korea stating that Samsung is quietly pulling out of the camera business. Despite a vague denial by the company, similar reports are now coming from another Korean newspaper as well as Spanish and Portuguese stores. Could this be the end of the NX cameras? A Korean [...]

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Can you imagine the photography course as an advance on a video game? Collecting objects and solving puzzles to unlock levels? The team at DigitalRevtook a swing in translating how a photographer advances through life as a series of Video game character increments. While I wholeheartedly disagree with the analysis, I also all wholeheartedly laughed [...]

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Photographer Eric Pare (previously) is always pushing his 1 second light painting technique, and it is quite interesting to see what results you can achievewhen you are imposing creative limits on yourself. Being limited to roughly 1 second, Eric wanted to try something new for Adobe Max and created one of the simplest, yet powerful [...]

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To commemorate Back to the Future Day (21st October 2015), I decided to do a photoshoot of the Time Machine. (I just love movie themed shoots) This was shot on location on the top of a multi-storey car park in Woodlands, Singapore, with a 1/15th scale DeLorean Time Machine replica by Diamond Select. A little [...]

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About a week ago reports began circulating that SanDisk is looking to be bought out, with Micron Technology and Western Digital both showing interest. Several hours ago it was officially announced the latter was successful in sealing the deal and the leading hard drive manufacturer will pay $19 billion in cash and stock to buy [...]

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Most of the time your equipment does a great job, but every once in a while you may find that under certain circumstances, your photos may seem a little soft. Although there are no less than a million reasons why this might be, it may simply be that your lens isnt focusing where its supposed to.

You may be thinking that if this is the case, isnt something seriously wrong? Not necessarily.

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