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Tamron have today announced theupdated “G2” next generation version ofits popular 150-600mm f/5-6.3 zoom lens. The new lens boasts faster autofocus and enhanced vibration control (VC) offering up to 4.5 stops of steadiness. It also has a fewnew features not found in its predecessor. They say that the new iteration has been developed in response [...]

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GoPro has their Karma drone in the works for quite a long time now (and we are still waiting…) Meanwhile, their chief action camera competitor, YITechnology just got ahead ofthem on the curve. Yi will announce the Yi Erida Drone in one week at the InterDrone conference. According to YI, it will be aTri-Copter drone [...]

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When you begin doing portrait lighting for the first time, the general advice you get is to put your light at 45 to your subject, and aim it down at 45. It’s a quick way to get something reasonably good, without a lot of understanding. With a little more knowledge, you can make better lighting decisions, and get more dramatic images.

Light has four main properties:
  1. Quantity
  2. Quality
  3. Color
  4. Direction

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This is one of those announcements that’s going to split the photography world in two. Some will be over the moonthat such a tool exists. Others will be infuriated that yet another piece of software is taking the skill away from photography & retouching.A few will also not care one way or the other. Regardless [...]

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AnAdvertising Agency approach me for making the Key-visuals for a transportation Industry Company. They had the idea of forming different Mode of Transportation like Car, Boat, Moto and Truck with the Body of their Worker. To get the best out of the idea. I had to modify the idea, and work with professional Dancers instead [...]

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Finding information on new cameras before they’re available is both easy and difficult at the same time. There’s so much information and speculation out there that there’s a lot to sift through. When it comes to the 5D Mark IV, Canon Asia have made it easy puttingthe manual available for download. So, if you want [...]

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Getting started in photography can be quite scary. We all start by investing in a DSLR, and think we are going to take amazing images. In reality it is a bit more difficult, because if it was easy… well everybody would sell prints, quit their day job, and live off photography.

Just like any art, photography has to be learned, and practiced – a lot. It is a trial and error process, we all start at the bottom and build our way up.

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We first mentioned Lytro’s Immerge virtual reality camera last year. Incorporating their light field technology at its core, it has a very unique appearance resembling something more suited to the set of a sci-fi movie. In the original concept video introducing us to Immerge, the demons shown were mockups. Now, Lytro have released live action [...]

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Shooting portraits on location has become verypopular over the last few years. Since the demise of train tracks and caution tape, rural middle of nowhere locations now seem to be the go to. They’re much safer, and often far more beautiful. Occasionally, you might see some wildlife. In fact, just last week during a shoot [...]

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We’ve all had asituation where we think we’ve created the perfect image, but we want to try something. Perhaps it’s to test an idea, sometimes it’s just to see how it looks or play with a preset. Whatever the reason, the last thing we want to do is undo all the work that came before [...]

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