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I’m a landscape photographer. And I’m part of a crazy lot. I had this realization during a sleep deprived afternoon. My hazy mind was trying to get me through the rest of the day. It was also trying to comprehend how I arrived at the miserable state I was in. It wasn’t hard to come […]

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We were all beginners to Photoshop at some point. It’s a rite of passage with just about anything. You have to be a beginner before you can become skilled. And as beginners we make mistakes. Lots of them. But mistakes are how we learn. This video from photographer Nino Batista highlights his list of the […]

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Vic Gundotra, Googles former Senior Vice President, recently published quite a passionate praise of the iPhone 7s camera. He didnt just call it the killer of DSLR, but also pointed out advantages of the iOS over Android. Not something youd expect from a former Googles SVP, right? In a Facebook post, Gundotra published two photos […]

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Content Aware Fill is one of those features of Photoshop that many users love to hate. So much so that quite a few of us have called it Content Aware Fail since it was first introduced in CS5. Personally, I’ve only found it to be really all that useful for extending clear blue skies, and […]

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Shiny male watch on a black background will certainly catch your eye in a catalog or in an Instagram feed. You can also create this kind of look, and you dont even need an expensive studio gear to do it. Photographer Dustin Dolby shares his workflow that will give you the stylish, catalog-worthy photo of […]

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Visual weight is the term given to compositional elements within an image and how much visual impact they have. Some things will feel heavier or more present within the image in comparison to other elements. As a photographer, it is your role to understand this and use it to your advantage when setting up your composition.

How can visual weight affect an image?
  • Light colored elements = a light feel
  • Dark colored elements = a heavy feel
  • Eyes/faces = heavy
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Recently Canon announced the release of their update to the 6D, its popular full frame camera body, with the Canon 6D Mark II. It’s getting some mixed reviews – let’s see what these reviewers thought... more

In this article, I will share with you some tips about travel photography.

After spending a year doing travel photography in India, I discovered that it isn’t about traveling physically, it’s about making the viewer travel virtually to your images. Travel image need to have sense of place and time. You can achieve this by shooting in your own city, street, or neighborhood.

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Here is an interestingquestion. If a $50 Handycam can be compared to $50,000 RED, why not pitch a PanasonicGH5 against a GoPro? Youtuber biscuitsalivedid just that and has some interesting feedback on the resulting footage. While the GoPro will probably work in a pinch,biscuits lists three main areas where the GoPro can improve. I agree […]

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Most large modifiers come with two diffusers. A big one for the outer rim and a smaller one that fits between the source of light and the big diffuser, right in the middle of themodifier. Of course, this begs the question how may diffusion layers do you actually need. PhotographerFrancisco Joel Hernandez shares a short, […]

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