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I’d like to share a few tips for portraits of musicians that will help you avoid the awkward photos that make any musician cringe.

Sometimes we are lucky enough as photographers to be asked to photograph someone with one of their most prized possessions: their musical instrument. Most people that want to be photographed with their instrument really and truly love it, and it’s a part of who they are. As a musician myself, I love photographs with gorgeous instruments... more

Chinese electronics component manufacturer Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology (Xiongmai) has said that its products inadvertently played a roll in Friday’s massive cyber attack that disrupted major internet sites including Twitter, Spotify and PayPal throughout the USA and other parts of the world on Friday. Xiongmai are a vendor of Internet-connected cameras and DVRs. The company admitted [...]

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Quite often other photographers tell me I dont have time for another social network and I dont need Instagram. Yet they spend hours posting on Facebook, 500px and Flickr where almost zero potential clients will see their work. Theyre basically getting followers, likes and comments coming from other photographers. Instagram can be useful in ways [...]

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Food photography is something we’ve pretty much all tried. Even if our gastronomical efforts are only limited to Instagram, it helps to be able to get a nice shot.In this video from Adobe, photographer Andrew Scrivani shares his top five tips to improving your own food photography. You might look a little odd bringing chopping [...]

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Nothing like a little creativity to get a reason to go out and shoot, and if creativity does not come from within, here are 9 easy tricks to give you a reason to go out and shoot. OR, if you are just looking or a fun weekend project, this little video by COOPH has your [...]

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After a rather recent public controversy over censorship rules, Facebook are revisiting their playbook when it comes to newsworthy images. Those posting images likethe one at the top of this postby photography Nick Ut, were warned to remove or pixelate them to comply with Facebook’s guidelines. When even Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg reposted the [...]

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This is one of those tutorials that’s great to play around with, maybe do it once or twice. But in the end, the thing they are great for is that they always teach you something. It may not be much, but it might help you think in a different way, or learn a skill you didnt know about. This one is about how to make a sketch inside a photograph.

 

This is a simple tutorial that can help you learn how to use layers, and combine images. There are so many things you... more

For most of us, simply grabbing a quick snap or our plane at the gate, or perhaps the wing through the window by our seat is enough to satisfy out thirst for photography. Not for Mike Kelley, though, oh no. He camped out at some of the busiest airports in the world to photograph planes [...]

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There’s more to getting the “film look” with video than simply shooting your camera at 24 frames per second. It’s not just the colour grading, or the lens used, either. These are, of course, factors, but all components of a much greater whole. Issues other than the framerate are mostly variable. One issue that often [...]

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First reported bySwedish newspaper Aftonbladet, the country’s highest court ruled on Fridaythat it is now illegal to fly drones with attached cameras in public places as they qualify as surveillance cameras. It’s a huge blow to Sweden’s hobbyist drone community. Hobbyists in Sweden are understandably upset, and the initial reactions are about as would be [...]

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