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Shooting Manually

Full manual. Two words. Ten letters. Yet those words can be some of the most discouraging for new photographers to ingest. There has long been a perceived over complication concerning shooting in Manual Mode. Personally, I always leave my camera set to manual. Granted, I dont shoot many fast-paced sporting events that require speedy autofocus, or many situations where there is constantly fluctuating light. Still, the idea of controlling the aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and... more

Time to dust up on your Color Balance Adjustment Layer.Heres a quick Photoshop trick that will add some more magic (or magical fire and ice) to your composites. This technique works wonders using dust particles shot against a back background. You can shoot this yourself or use a pre-made dust resource if you don’t have [...]

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Last week, we shared the news that GoPro is planning on cutting back its workforce after shares dropped to an all-time low. Now, weve learned that GoPro has yet another monkey on its back in the form of a lawsuit from investors. The lawsuit, filed by Gainey McKenna & Egleston in California, claims GoPro management [...]

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Events such as Ferguson led to increased usage of body cameras in police departments across the U.S., but as the cameras popularity soars so do the questions about who owns the footage and how much of it should be made available to the public. As Arstechnica reports, one question hasnt been discussed as often [...]

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If you think its challenging getting quality footage from smartphones, you might as well not even bother attempting this feat. LA-based YouTube crew Mommy Comedy has created a feature film using only a Toyota Prius back-up camera as the recording tool. This six-and-a-half minute video gives us a tongue-in-cheek behind-the-scenes look at what it took [...]

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iPhones might not be the video camera choice of professionals, but if you want a quick behind-the-scenes video or prefer to pack light, the 4K capable iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are wonderful tools. To improve the footage from the smartphones, two of the most simple things you can do are add external audio recording [...]

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Creative storytelling in pictures need not be daunting nor time-consuming. You can easily set up something really simple at home to take pictures of and at the same time make new memories with your kids.

The actual shoot must be kept really short, so as not to exasperate your kids too much, especially if they are very young, and therefore have relatively short attention spans. The real work is in the planning and thinking ahead.

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In his latest adventure, Benjamin von Wongheaded to Fiji where he tied down a model to photograph her underwater with the local sharks. While this might sound scary (and crazy), the terrible stereotypes depicting sharks as menacing and terrifying creatures are exactly what Ben hopes to change with these surreal images. As a photographer looking [...]

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If youre looking to get your hands on the Holy Grail of Nikon glass, look no furthera Nikkor 13mm f/5.6 lens has popped up on eBay. Priced at $33,000 via the Buy It Now option, this lens was only made available via special order between 1976 and 1998, making it one of only 350 or [...]

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There comes a point, or a plateau, as in every photographer’s career (whether you are an intermediate or professional photographer) where you hit a wall. It’s a crisis of self that you are faced with when you have reached a certain point of technical proficiency. Well, basically you hit a plateau because you already know all the elements of photography from composition, to technical skills, to editing images, but somehow something is missing substance, meaning, emotional... more

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