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I bought a stack of foreign Vogue magazines for inspiration, and inside of Vogue Italia I saw an amazing photo of Alessandra Ambrosio on a beach at night (the imageat the bottom of this page). I tucked it away in a manila envelope labeled “Possible Shoots”. For a year and a half, every time I [...]

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One of the most difficult and frustrating parts about shooting with film, back before the days of digital photography, was the limited amount of attempts you had to get the photo you wanted. I remember carrying around spare rolls of film in afanny (waist) pack on a trip to Walt Disney World years ago, and carefully considering each photo, lest I get one setting wrong and blow the entire shot.

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CFast is the industry’s answer toSony’s XQD card(in a neverending standard war), but looks like this card is not without its issues. Canon just released an advisory asking photographers to avoid using some of Sandisk’s CFast cards on1DXmkII‘s because it may corrupt images stored on the card (which is kinda funnyconsidering Amazonis offering CFast cards [...]

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Photographing superheroes has become quite popular lately. Some use human subjects, while others use toy action figures, but this take on the superhero genre is very unique and fun. French photographer Sacha Goldberger asked some questions and, as a result, plunged some of the most iconic characters of recent memory into the 17th century with [...]

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The 4th of July is rapidly approaching, and some of our American readers may be getting ready to have a go at some fireworks photography.Fireworks aren’t difficult to photograph, but they aren’t something you want to go into blind. In this video from photographerDavid Bergman at AdoramaTVwe get some great advice for photographing fireworks effectively [...]

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Sony has spent recent years charging full steam ahead into the full-frame mirrorless camera market. But they have also managed to satisfy the desires of APS-C shooters, mainly through their widely-popular a6000mid-range mirrorless camera. In March 2016, just two years after the debut of the a6000, Sonyreleased the a6300 with improved features, that still retain many of the characteristics of the older model.

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Whether the work we create is digital, or a little more tangible, it’s an inevitable consequence that some of it will be lost or destroyed. In this short series of videos released by Adobe, we see four of them recreated using Photoshop and stock imagery. Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee went missing [...]

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I primarily photograph people, but children are a subject I’ve generally stayed well clear of. I have nothing against them, and apparently I used to be one (my wife says I still am), but when it comes to photographing them, it just really doesn’t appeal to me. If you’re a parent, on the other hand, [...]

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66 bundles of undeveloped film, estimated to be over 1,200 rolls, shot by the same photographer in the 1950s have found themselves in the hands of Levi Bettwieser at the Rescued Film Project. Acquired by the Bettwiesera year ago at auction,the bundles of film are meticulously wrapped and labelled, including information such as the camera [...]

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Have you ever felt that your photography isn’t improving as much as itonce was? Do you feel that the level of your work is stagnating and not progressing much more?

Yet you keep reading article after article, either on the web or in magazines. You hope that one of them will provide the next breakthrough for your work and help you rip through the barrier that will bring your photography to the next level. You show off your work to friends and family, and you hear the... more

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