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Explore the idea of hanging products(likehereandhere), I decided to add a new element fire.I had used fire in another image of a bottle (here), but this time I wanted the fire to encompassthe bottle, which meant taking a few more safety precautions. I started by choosing the background for image, I chose an old [...]

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Its the Canada Day and Independence Day long weekend in North America (ironically both celebrating an inverse Brexit) and the official kick-off for summer – so I thought that I would try to inspire you to get up early and stay up late by sharing the stories behind a few of my favorite summer photos. [...]

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This article is about how to build a useable file renaming strategy, and how to implement it in Lightroom. Your standard camera names are generally pretty boring. IMG this or DSC that, or even P0235425653. If youre not using continuous naming you might even end up with hundreds of IMG_0001 files. Dont laugh, I was there once upon a time after reading some terrible advice on camera settings.

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Night photography is something that goes beyond the average snapshot, something many beginners shy away from because it seems difficult. But the results of learning how to do night photography, especially of stars is well worth the time and effort required.

By Olli Henze

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One of the trickier aspects to shooting video is dealing with multiple cameras, and morespecificallyhaving to match the colour and contrast of footage recorded by each of those cameras to each of the other cameras. Well, in this video fromIWLTBAP, your life’s about to get a whole lot easier.In it, we see how to use [...]

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They say that two things are certain in life; Death and taxes. Taxes we can’t do anything about, but I don’t think anybody until now realised just how many of those entirely preventable deaths could be attributed to shooting selfies. You just can’t seem to go very long these dayswithout hearing about another one. Some [...]

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We’ve all been there, we see a gorgeous beautifully lit scene before us while we’re out with friends or family, but we don’t have our camera with us. So, we go back… every day.. for a month… and nothing. No matter how often we may return to a location to try and recreate that day, [...]

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We can be star struck in more than one way. Celebrity sightings of famous Hollywood stars is one way, the other is by the celestial stars themselves – literally!

Let’s look at a few images of celestial subjects and see how they can be captured in photographs:

Star trails

By Shannon Dizmang

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I love digital analogue hybrid processes in photography, I find them absolutely fascinating,and this video from photographer Nick Carver helps to show why. There is, of course, another message in this video. If you like your images, print them. Print them big and show them off. I couldn’t agree more. I still shoot both film [...]

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With great power comes great potential for abuse. Back in 2011, Apple filed a fairly controversial patent, which would allow the cameras in their devices to be turned on and off at will by external forces. In theory, this would allow locations and venues that have“No photography” zones to enforce this rule more passively. Aimed [...]

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