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Along exposure photo can makeflames look soft and feathery, capture spark trails, and be used to create a romantic or cozy mood.The tips in this article will help you get started with long exposure fire photography.

Long exposure fire photography: 5tips for beginners

Remember to be careful as you practice your fire photography. Fire can be dangerous, and it’s easy to be careless when we’re thinking more... more

The best thing anyone ever said about one of my photographs was That looks like shit. That (meaning my photograph) looks like shit. I think it was something I posted on DPREVIEW or one of those other sites. Anyways, where I posted the photo is irrelevant. What is relivant is that that comment changed everything [...]

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Lightroom is powerful, but its also complex and has a steep learning curve. If you feel overwhelmed by all the options, theres great value in taking a simple approach and learning to use the tools that are most useful first. Leave the more advanced features until you have more experience.

With that in mind, Ive put together this list of the six most important things you need to know about Lightrooms... more

Sell the fake or add to the surrealism. As as creative retoucher and composite photographer, these are two aspects that in my opinion are very important, you either learn techniques to help blend realism into the piece, or techniques to make it stand out and add surrealism. For example, you can have a model float [...]

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It’s getting to become a pretty common occurrence lately. Somebody flies a drone, somebody else gets hit in the headby it. Well, when they’re not being speared out of the sky. This time, however, it is believed that itwasn’t piloterror or a drone malfunction, but simply mother nature doing her thing as the drone collided [...]

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Fibonacci sequence, the golden mean, the golden ratio – a series of numbers recognized and named after an Italian mathematician. If you look around it’s everywhere, in nature and man-made things.

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The Dutch Angle. It’s one of those things you either love or you hate, and even whenyou are a fan, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between an intentional act and whether the creator simply forgot to level theirtripod. It’s one of those things I’ve tended to avoid, having never really seena purpose for [...]

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Samsung Electronics, haveunveiled theirnewest memory card,a massive 256GB microSD, raising the bar for super small storage formats by a pretty impressive amount, beating outthe previous record held by SanDisk’s 200GB microSD card. With the proliferation of data collecting devices like 4K cameras, 360 degree video recorders, action cams and drones which can quickly accumulate very [...]

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In late 2014 I was given a few piecesof piping. What you might call trash, but I call the ring of fire. Itended up being an incredibly useful tool in my photography. I quickly decided to add it to my (now literal) bag of tricks along with Prisming, Lens Chimping, my Broken Freelens,Anamorphics, etc). These [...]

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Composition is an important part of photography. You may have heard of the Rule of Thirds, or even the Fibonacci sequence (aka the golden mean). It is something that appears in nature often (think spiral sea shells) and which man imitates almost instinctively.

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