Photography Blogs & Tutorials

It’s Father’s Day todayand accordingly, my email inbox has been deluged with gift ideas for fathers. Even if they are photographically inclined (you might not believe how many press releases I receive that aren’t even in my preferred ball-park) the chances are that they won’t present me with many opportunities to feature them. I was [...]

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As the sun sets on a citys skyline, thousands of lights come flooding the concrete jungle, turning every urban scene into a photographers paradise. Every corner around the city suddenly seems too irresistible not to be photographed.

Urban night shots is probably one of the most common photos taken at night. The way most people shoot cityscapes at night is to keep the camera still, press the trigger, and snap the shot. The result is often an uninspired image, with overexposed... more

A while back, Eujin Goh from Broncolor Singapore approached me and asked if I would like to collaborate using some Broncolor gear in a conceptual photoshoot that I could hammer out. I jumped at the chance and was thrilled to know that I would be using some of Broncolors latest tech the Siros L [...]

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Recently we launched 101 Landscape Lightroom Presets product. As part of the launch we put everyone who purchased a copy into the draw to win $1000 in camera gear. Those who purchased the bundle (101 Lightroom Presets and 101 Landscape Lightroom Presets) received 2 entries.

The winner of this competition isTerrence Jones

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I had to shoot in an environment without HSS (Didn’t have my Citi600 with me) and I didn’t have my Hoya ND16 filter with me either. Which meant that I couldn’t effectively overpower the ambient light coming off the stage to get rid of the blue on the model’s skin. This led me to trying [...]

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Prime lenses are best for creating portraits like this one, taken with the aperture set to f/1.2 to blur the background.

Are you thinking of buying a new lens for your camera? Stop, and read this article first.

One of the hardest things to achieve when buying new camera gear is clarity. Why do you need a new lens, how much should you spend, and where does it fit into the big picture of your gear acquisition? Once you are clear on these points, it makes the... more

After writing about how I use Later.com to schedule Instagram posts, a reader suggested PIXBUF as an alternative that can schedule photography posts across all popular social media accounts from one app. Facebook, Twitter, 500px, Flickr, Tumblr, Pinterest, Blogger and Instagram are currently supported with VSCO, Behance and Google + promised in the future. PIXBUF [...]

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Photographing bugs and the tiny critters takes patience, and a macro lens may come in handy as well.

By William Warby

Weekly Photography Challenge –Butterflies and Bugs

For this week’s challenge if you need some tips, try reading these dPS articles:

Unless you’re shooting really really long exposures, a photograph captures just the tiniest slice of time. Timelapse can help to speed up time and show us great durations in just a few minutes. For fine art photographerStephen Wilkes, shooting hundreds of photographs over the course of up to 30 hours at a time perched in [...]

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Spring has sprung in the northern part of the world and the creep crawly things are out and about. But they aren’t all bad or ugly. Many of the world’s smallest creatures are quite attractive – beautiful even.

So here is how some photographers chose to capture them in butterflies and bugs:

By Bob Peterson

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