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Since first seeing JoeyL tape a polaroid to a projector screen in 2010, the annual Gulf Photo Plus Shootout has become the one photography eventthat I look most forward to each year. The formula is a simple,yetveryeffective one. Take three wildly talented photographers, set them a challenge, and thenget one or two morephotographers to heckle [...]

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It’s 6pm, it’s cold, and the sun is on its way to set. The tripod is placed, the composition is done – now I just have to wait for the big show that Mother Nature puts on every day to happen again. The sky is threatening, but with a little luck, the sun will pierce the clouds to pass above the lighthouse in front of me.

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This is interesting. Instagram is changing a small, but prominent feature of its social network service. Instagram is testing a change in how it displays likes of images. Specifically, the Facebook-owned social network is starting to use only numbers to show how many likes an image has receivedsomething once reserved for photos that more than [...]

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As much as your photography career relies on your work, more than most people acknowledge, its also about creating relationships with your clients. Not only are they the ones currently providing you a source of income, their connections can be future clients and their referrals can be gold in a business where who you know [...]

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Covering an array of mountains with names he refuses to even attempt to pronounce, landscape & travel photographerThomas Heaton takes us on a whirlwindtour of Glencoe to photographsome amazing winter landscapes. In this video documentinghis two-and-a-bit-day visit, Thomas talks to us throughout his journey, explaining what he looks for in a landscape and how he [...]

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Im not quite sure what the fascination is with offering Leica cameras with the purchase of a vehicle is, but it appears to be a trend thats growing. Late last year, we reported that car manufacturer Briggs Automotive Company was giving away a custom Leica T (Typ701) with every purchase of its $250K BAC Mono. [...]

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Photos of food, when done well, serve to make the viewer hungry or at the very least make the food in the photo look appetizing. Often food is photographed right at the table.

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Sigma already has a steady collection of Art lenses on the market, but it looks like they have a few more up their sleeves for 2016. According to newly leaked photos and information, Sigma is set to release a 50100mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art lens on February 23rd, 2016. As can be seen in the [...]

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Stop motion animation is hardly a new art, but the brand new advertisement PES created for Hondatakes the art form to a new level. Instead of trying to deliver a smooth animation, the advert ‘breaks the fourth wall‘ and features the hands making the animation as part of the animation itself. Following the cues and [...]

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At virtuallyevery major sporting event across the planet, we see groupsof photographers huddled together on the sidelines, their allegiance often only visibleby the colour of the lenses attached to their cameras, but why are Canon’s telephoto lenses white? Canon’s official position is that large lenses contain large elements and that are more susceptible to heat [...]

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