Photography Blogs & Tutorials

There is just something about the natural world that seems to touch us humans to the very core of our being, especially when it involves wildlife of any form. When we hear the words “wildlife photography”, wide open planes of the African Savannah with herds of zebras, wildebeestsand antelope come to mind.

But that isjust one part of the natural world pie! Don’t get me wrong, visiting Africa and going on safari are really high on my bucket list of places to visit and... more

Shiny skin can sometimes be a problem for portraits, especially if you don’t have a makeup artist. Camera LCDs are so small that you might not notice the shine while shooting. When the shoot’s all over and you’re looking at the images on the computer monitor, what can you do? There are a million different [...]

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Interviews are one of the most common video subjects that most people will shoot. Even if it’s not a regular thing for you, an interview is pretty mucha certainty at some point. They’re pretty easy to shoot, but there are pitfalls that can catch you out if you’ve not done it before. In this video [...]

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Yup, that’s right, after a super brief beta period of only a few days, Prisma is now available for Android. The wildly popular iOS app has over 10.6 milliondownloads since its launch a short time ago. Prisma shows no signs of slowing down with over 1.55 million daily active users and over 400 million photos [...]

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Let’s face it, the attached camera was pretty much the only decent feature of Google Glass. It’s also a feature that raised quite a few privacy concerns. The new Blincam, which allows its wearer to shoot a photograph simply by winking, also faces those same privacy issues.It also apresents a newer, slightly creepier, one. It’s [...]

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This is the promised follow-up to my article on Creating Compelling Wide-Angle Portraits Using One Off-Camera Flash. While part one discussed equipment, composition, lighting and posing, this article focuses exclusively on post-processing.

Let me start by stating the obvious. Everyone has their own unique preferences regarding post-processing. Just read... more

It’s not new information that Yahoo hasbeen struggling. It may have been one of the Internet’s original giants, but they just can’t keep up and compete today. Google dominates the search market,Messengerusurped by Facebook, no real mobile platform, and no solid leadership. It’s not looking good. About the only things Yahoo have left that are [...]

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Lookup Tables, or LUTs, are simply amazing. LUTs arelikepresets, but work across all platforms and software,for both video and stills. LUTs can beused for both colour correction, to bring cameras to a standard, and for giving your footage or images a desired “look”. But how do we use them? In this video from Casey Faris, [...]

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The Yi 4K action camera has been out for a while now and reviews are starting to reel in. We seen quite a few of them (and we will have one of our own soon), but this one review got us thinking that the YI 4K is indeed a gopro killer. This review fromTechmoan has [...]

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I have played with photography a little bit since I was a boy, first with an old Olympus 35mm film point-and-shoot, then with a GameBoy camera and later a pretty terrible mobile phone. At age 18 I got my first DSLR and instantly fell in love with out-of-focus backgrounds, and now almost 10 years later [...]

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