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The selfie craze claims another victim, this time in Asia. A Japanese tourist visiting Indias Taj Mahal died on Friday after slipping down the stairs at the Royal Gate. An eyewitness told BBC Hindi that the incident took place while the tourist was taking a selfie at the famous monument. Local police reported that the [...]

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Last week we released our brand new course,Photo Nuts and Shots, which is all about teaching the tools, techniques and thought processes for creative photography. It’s by one of our most popular ebook authors, Neil Creek, and features over two hours of video teaching.

We asked Neil to create this course as he has a natural knack for explaining technical concepts in a way that makes the... more

And so Rokinon’s Quest to dominate the prime market continues. The company released 2 news lenses today: a50mm f/1.2 and 21mm f/1.4. This is not a surprised as rumors about the50mm f/1.2 have been roaming the blogosphere for a while now, but the release date has been pulled in a few days (and no, they [...]

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Have you ever wondered how photographers at the major awards get there photos or how they get the celebrities to look at their camera? Ahead of the upcoming 67th annual Emmy Awards, USA Todays Robert Hanashiro and Dan Macmedan take us behind the scenes and show us where they are seated, a bit of the [...]

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Swiss police came up with a new, and highly controversial, plan to get suspects to turn themselves in. According to Haaretz newspaper, the police will release a pixelated photo of suspects to the media, along with a message warning that unless they turn themselves in within a week, unpixelated photos will be published and the [...]

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It is hardly questionable that landscape photography is both rewarding and fun. The whole process from planning and researching an outing, to making your way to a location during ideal conditions and, finally, producing a completed image of an exquisite vista can be so fulfilling it’s easyto see why it is such a popular genre.

Unfortunately, there are costs to this popularity. Even though most landscape photographers do identify as environmentally-minded, the sheer number... more

If youre in the market for an extremely fast telephoto lens, Abex UK has just what you need, with a few minor caveats. The first is the lens is currently listed for a draw-dropping $387,000, and another is that you will require a bit of help lugging around this supersized 18 kg (40-pound) lens. Also [...]

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Ever since DSLRs became cheap enough we’ve been seeing our share of time slice (AKA Bullet Time) projects. And cheap gopros enable even less of an entrance barrier into the time slice world. But some projects are just pure fun and are worth sharing. DPMitch Martinez uses an array of48 Canon DSLR cameras to create [...]

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Place your subject to the right or left of centre. For portraits, the eyes should be above the centre line for a pleasant good composition.

Composition is all about the balance of the elements in your photograph. This also includes colors tones and textures. This is what separates a snapshot from a great shot. If you want to achieve a good composition, you need to plan it out and see where each element is going to be placed before you take the shot.

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You might have seen some articles here on Digital Photography School about using the histogramwhen editing pictures in Lightroom and Photoshop, but it can also be a very handy tool when you are out shooting images as well. Most cameras have the ability to show you the histogram when you review your photos on the rear LCD screen, and some even allow you to see a real-time histogram in Live View. While this might... more

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