Photography Blogs & Tutorials

We all love to spend money on the latest and greatest photo gear, whether it be a $120 reflector with a hole in it (I’m just jealous I didn’t market this myself haha ), or a $500 tube with LED’s inside! We love to spend money on our passion. But sometimes, you can create […]

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A dog is for life, not just for likes. Its a variation on the nearly-40-year-old slogan thats impressed on us every Advent by the people at the Dogs Trust. But now it is becoming ever-more pressing as research conducted by the Blue Crossanother animal charitysuggests that theres a chunk of people who would predicate their […]

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If you’re a travel photographer or just someone who wants to keep your photographs safe and secure while you’re in the field, one of your biggest challenges is copying and backing up your travel photographs and travel video as it’s captured. My top three travel photography backup challenges are: Copying camera photo and video files […]

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Google has developed and launched a new encoder named Guetzli. It’s an open source algorithm that allows you to reduce the size of JPG files by up to 35% while keeping the quality unchanged. Additionally, you can increase the image quality while leaving the size unchanged. Guetzli will allow you high compression density at agood […]

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A group of tourists have suffered minor injuries after they were caught up in the erupting volcano Mount Etna in Sicily. BBC team was among the group, recording. And when the volcano burst out, they caught the explosion on camera. BBC science reporter Rebecca Morelle was at the scene, and she described the event. When […]

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Sing, play that funky music, listen and look at these 21 images of all things music.

Weekly Photography Challenge – Music

Think of all the things you can photograph related to music:

  • An individual instrument
  • Musician with this instrument
  • Full band
  • A concert or show in a bar
  • An orchestra or quartette
  • A singer
  • A sheet of music
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Today I got an idea for a quick and simple DIY 2-in-1 reflector, and I’d like to share it with you and create my very first DIY article. It has awhite and a silver side, it takes two ingredients to make, and it cost me about $20, along with the hot glue gun (this DIY […]

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Sigma 135mm F/1.8 DG HSM Art is now officially available for preorders. Sigma has presented us with as many as four new lenses last month, but without any details on shipping and price. Now the 135mm is ready for preorders, and the shipping begins pretty soon – it’s expected on April 10th. We expected agood […]

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Music fills the soul – it also makes for a great subject for photographers.

Singers, concerts, musicians, bands, instruments, and more. See if you can hear the music in thees images!

By John Finn

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When we talk about the Shutter Speed in photography the first thing that comes to mind is its is relationship to Exposure. The Shutter speed is the essential part of Exposure Triangle (Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed) and it helps photographers to get perfectly exposed photos. But my belief is that to understand and to master […]

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