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Depression? In order to make this hit home what its like living with depression Ive written this article twice. The first half is during my mindset when Ive been depressed, how I feel, what I think. The latter is my reflection upon the previous article when Im in a better mindset. It took me 9 [...]

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Think of your last bad day of photography, a time where you just blew a whole batch of portraits, or even a couples wedding day images were spoiled. As photographers you cant go back and fix that. Yes if you use RAW, you can get some info back from under or over exposed shots, and editing tools these days can be incredibly useful. But, when you spend more time behind the computer than with you camera it can be a real confidence buster. It may even be taking away from future business, if not... more

If you’re ever looking for inspiration, you really can’t go wrong with Benjamin Von Wong, and just a quick scroll down the homepage of his website will instantly show you why. But, if you needed some more convincing then I present this video, brought to you by the folks from the Cooperative of Photography,featuring Benjamin [...]

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I had tried Lightroom in the past, but always preferred using Apple’s Aperture photo editing program. But in the spring of 2014, when it was announced that Apple was no longer supporting Aperture, I decided to make the leap to Lightroom. At first I found it difficult to use and not really intuitive, but I soon found my way around and I was a Lightroom convert.

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The histogram is based around a fairly simple principle, but one that many still struggle to get to grips with. Put simply, it’s a graph showing the relative proportion of brightness levels throughout your image. In the latest video from Rocket Jump Film School, cinematographerJon Salmon talks us through exactly what the histogram is and [...]

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Photoshop’s layer blending options are some of itsmost powerful tools but also one of itsmost frustrating, particularly the “Blend if” sliders. Designed to help you blend a layer with thosebelow it based on the luminance of colour channels, actually seeing what’s effect it’s having on a layer often can be difficult. In this video from [...]

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Shadows are often the hardest part when creating composites. In my workshop I often get the question cant we just take a copy of the model, duplicate that, make it black and use that as a shadow. My answer was always no till recently. I am gonna show you a way how you can (often)use [...]

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Something quite special dwells beneath the surface of New Zealand and these images prove that the country is just as beautiful below ground as it is above! The Waitomo area is famous for its limestone caves and within these caves are one of the most magical insects in the world, the glowworm. Glow worms emit [...]

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If you are reading this site for any amount of time, you you know that we are big fans of adding movement to time lapses. I mean static timelapses are so 2014 If you want movement but still cant setup a big rig, the Genie mini is the perfect solution for you, and we [...]

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An article to end all articles. t’s really not, but I feel like the potential for a flame-war and s–t storm is so great that I have to put on a raincoat just to start laying out the words haha! That’s right my friends, today I’m going to be talking about the Sony A7ii and [...]

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