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With Adobe’s long standing global domination and the current buzz around Affinity’s recent announcement of impending Windows versions of their software, it’s easy to forget that there is another application out there that can satisfy the needs of a good number of photographers, especially those who run Linux. That application is GIMP. One of the [...]

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I love my Nikon 14-24mm lens but it has one drawback; you can’t put filters on it. Not that one needs to use a huge selection of filters on ultra-wides but if you’re doing certain kinds of photography being able to use an ultra-wide combined with ND filters makes the composition or time lapse more [...]

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When it comes to ridiculously cheapbutvery useful lenses, you’d be hard pushed to beat 40+ year old Russian technology, and this suggestionfrom Mathieu Sternis no exception. We’ve shown you a few repurposed lenses in the past, but this one’s a little more readily available and quite a bit less expensive. Tornfrom the clutches of aSmena [...]

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If youre anything like me, you likely have a dozen or more empty film canisters scattered about your drawers. While theres no shortage of DIY projects you can make using them, heres one you might not have come across before. Instructables user mxx has shared how you can easily turn 35mm film canisters into a [...]

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Most of the DIY projects we share here at DIY Photography are based specifically around photography gear. That isnt the case this time around, but that doesnt mean this clever little DIY hack cant make your life a heck of a lot easier. Today, weve come across a unique little trick to organize ables and [...]

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When working with compositions, one of the easiest things to do to add a little extra character to the image is to add a texture to the background. There are multiple ways to achieve this, but photographer Glyn Dewis has one of the most effective methods Ive come across. In his latest video, he shares [...]

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As a landscape photographer, I participate in many online groups, and I also teach classes where I get the opportunity to see less experienced photographers work. I often see some very good work, but many times I also see missed opportunities. Newer photographers just getting started photographing landscapes often times become so enamored by the colors in the sky, that they neglect other areas of the image. I often see images with weak, underexposed foregrounds, and poor compositions that... more

For this shoot, my main goal was to show a possible post-apocalyptic future. I wanted to get both the atmosphere and the main characters right. I was thinking about dark and moody studio setting, and made this sketch to get my thoughts together: I ended up creating this tube background from seamlessblack paper. My first [...]

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If you are reading this, I assume that you enjoy photography enough already. You’re here, after all. However, you can always enjoy it more – so I wanted to create thislist... more

Im affiliated with the Dark Realm Collective (DRC), its an art group that specializes in Dark / Horror / Supernatural subjects – the group was founded October 2014 by Matt Seff Barnes. As a collective, we release four art packs a year; each pack has a title, and a selection of five themes for the [...]

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