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The histogram is based around a fairly simple principle, but one that many still struggle to get to grips with. Put simply, it’s a graph showing the relative proportion of brightness levels throughout your image. In the latest video from Rocket Jump Film School, cinematographerJon Salmon talks us through exactly what the histogram is and [...]

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Photoshop’s layer blending options are some of itsmost powerful tools but also one of itsmost frustrating, particularly the “Blend if” sliders. Designed to help you blend a layer with thosebelow it based on the luminance of colour channels, actually seeing what’s effect it’s having on a layer often can be difficult. In this video from [...]

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Shadows are often the hardest part when creating composites. In my workshop I often get the question cant we just take a copy of the model, duplicate that, make it black and use that as a shadow. My answer was always no till recently. I am gonna show you a way how you can (often)use [...]

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Something quite special dwells beneath the surface of New Zealand and these images prove that the country is just as beautiful below ground as it is above! The Waitomo area is famous for its limestone caves and within these caves are one of the most magical insects in the world, the glowworm. Glow worms emit [...]

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If you are reading this site for any amount of time, you you know that we are big fans of adding movement to time lapses. I mean static timelapses are so 2014 If you want movement but still cant setup a big rig, the Genie mini is the perfect solution for you, and we [...]

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An article to end all articles. t’s really not, but I feel like the potential for a flame-war and s–t storm is so great that I have to put on a raincoat just to start laying out the words haha! That’s right my friends, today I’m going to be talking about the Sony A7ii and [...]

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Taking photos is easy, but being a photographer is an entirely different proposition. Whether photography is a hobby or a full time profession, there comes a time in every photographers journey where you encounter a few pitfalls that no one tells you about when you are starting out. Here are five photography pitfalls to look out for, and overcome on your journey.

Photography Pitfall #1 – Becoming a Machine

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It sounded like another gimmick but Ill give you the short of it: The MindShift Gear BackLight 26L works as a backpack that can rotate around your body, and give access to all your gear without getting muddy on the... more

Having first photographed President Obama in 2005, White House photographer Pete Souza estimates that by the time Obama’s second term is up, he will have made over two million photographs of the President. It’s difficult to imagine following and photographing the same person for eleven years. In this video, from BBC’s Newsnight, Souza talks about [...]

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Here’s a cool trick that my friendAmr Tahtawishowed me a while ago and that I keep using for my light-painting pictures. As usual, I do a series of quick light-painting pictures with Kim Henry at blue hour (to get the nice background).Most of them are lit in one second. These are created using tubeguards. Make [...]

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