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It seems that in the world of photography today the demand for lighter, and more versatile, gear is at an all time high. The average photographer (if there is such a thing) wants to be able to cover a huge variety of subjects, and carry as few lenses as possible. Shooting quick and light has become the goal of many. In addition, even the hobbyist photographer has become more knowledgeable and more discerning about what cameras and lenses they choose to use. This has lead to an increased... more

This season on Photoshop User TV, The guys have changed up the format of the show to bring you quicktips. RC has a tip on creating and saving a signature for a watermark.

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It is day 5 in our 12 Deals of Christmas and today we’ve got a great deal that is perfect for anyone who gets asked to photograph events (birthday parties, concerts, school plays, reunions, weddings etc).

It’s 54% off Phil Steele’s Event Photography Course.

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Peak Design have created five incredibly successful Kickstarter campaigns. Their most recent – for the Everyday Messenger bag – raised nearly $5m from more than 17,000 backers. In this article, I talk with Peak Designs Adam Saraceno, to find out how they keep knocking their projects out of the proverbial ballpark. And, perhaps, to find [...]

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Sometimes it does not take much to create a wonderful shot for new year, it only takes a punched black cardboard andtwochampagne glasses. Moldova based PhotographerAlexZatsepinprovides a detailed explanation on how he took the photo above using a punched black cardboard, anIroning board, 3 strobes, and a good understating of how light and lenses work. [...]

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Its safe now to say that film is anything but dead. More so now than ever, it seems photographers young and old are looking to get back to the days of darkrooms. Recently, we shared with you the Filmomat, a completely automated film processing machine created from scratch. Today, we have for you a less [...]

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Celebrating the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Adorama TV launched a new video shows with the first episode explaining the forced perspective technique. With the timing and the subject of the episode obviously timed to go along with the new movie, how better to explain this visual effect than with an X-Wing Fighter? [...]

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If youve ever seen thermal imaging footage, theres a good chance it was captured with an infrared camera developed by Oregon-based FLIR Systems, a company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of thermal imaging cameras. Its for that reason that drone manufacturer DJI has teamed up with FLIR to create the Zenmuse XT, a [...]

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Here is an amazing fact, at least for us: Photographers have bought more than7,000 Image Manipulation packages from us. Thanks!!! One of the more frequent requests we get on our support mail is “do you guys have a gift card option“? We did not have a good answer for this one. Now we do. Here. [...]

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Don’t let the land in landscape photography fool you–a great landscape photo relies just as much on the sky. Boring gray skies make for boring landscape photos. But capturing a dramatic sky in camera is trickier than it seems. With the sky lighter than the land, the camera will typically overexpose the sky, turning a brilliant blue into a vague and unexciting gray.

But, with a little fine tuning, it is possible to capture a sky that is the cherry-on-top of a great scene on... more

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