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I stated pretty innocently with my first camera, and then slowly but surely I became a camera and lens addict, throwing money out of the window. The result after all of these years is wasted money and all the stuff I got never made me happier besides the initial high. When others make mistakes one [...]

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If you’re like me, your social media and news feeds were chock full of some great (and some not so great) shots of last night’s supermoon/total solar eclipse. Sadly for me, we had some pretty terrible weather and clouds that made my eclipse gazing plans non-existent–and I really had my heart set on trying to [...]

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“Travel is the best teacher.”

Have you ever heard this saying? As a photographer, travel teaches you more than you could ever imagine. Itrequires a lot of preparation and attention to details. Yet, it also requires you to be open, ready for the unexpected, and willing to take risks sometimes to get the best shots!

Whether you are traveling into your backyard or across the globe, knowing what to put in your camera bagcan be daunting. There are so many great gadgets out there... more

Last year we shared some photos that compared the camera quality of every iPhone ever made. The comparison shots were taken by Camera+ co-founder, Lisa Bettany, and being the mobile photography enthusiast she is, Bettany has updated her collection of iPhone comparison shots to include the newly announced iPhone 6s. As you’ve probably heard, the [...]

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Have you ever been somewhere with a great view and taken a picture with your widest lens, but wished you had an even wider one that could capture the whole scene?

That is how panoramic photography was born in the 1840s when the pioneer photographers started using Daguerreotype plates pieced together to form very wide-angle scenes.

 

This panoramic image showing San Francisco from Rincon Hill was photographed by Martin Behrmanx in 1851. It is believed that the... more

Here is a simple recipe you can use to add colour and subtle narrative to your images. It will delight your clients and help your images stand out from the crowd. A lot of the time we see coloured gels used in photography to create very bold statements, this is often achieved with hard lighting [...]

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Over the last year it seemed that GoPro are upping their positioningand slowly crawling into the pricier side of the action camera range. (going up to $500 with theHERO4Black). Now the company is bringing it down a notch with an addition of a new Camera – theHero+. If the name sounds familiar, it is because [...]

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According to the latest rumors the app Nikon and Apple were said to be developing will be used to update camera firmware, sync custom settings and add features via the cameras WiFi. This app could be related to the firmware download program we were expecting and might be released with the upcoming D5 (and hopefully [...]

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Here is a technique I did not think I will ever be covering on the blog, using smoke bombs. In fact I did not even know that there is such a thing as smoke bombs until I stumbled on the photography ofJovana Rikalo. Serbian photographerJovana Rikalouses smoke bombs to create some unexpected effects in her [...]

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Every year around this time of the year we a supermoon (what are you doing tonight?). VideographerDan Marker-Moore does not miss the opportunity to make it into something special. Two years ago Dan started this project. Shooting11 photos over28 minutes (sans 1 second) Dan created a spectacular array of visuals. This just goes to show [...]

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