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An ISISsniper is reported to havefatally shot Dutch photojournalist, Jeroen Oerlemans. The Guardian reports that the shooting took place in Sirte, a city over which ISIS have been fighting tocontrol for a year. Oerlemans had been there covering the ongoing conflict in Libya for Belgian publication, Knack. Eike den Hertog of the Beeldunie photo agency [...]

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Samyang brought autofocus into their range of lenses not too long ago with two new Sony E mount lenses. The 14mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.4. Now, in a recent interview with Focus Numerique, Samyang head of product planning, Jeong Min Shin says that more are to come. In the interview, he talked about some of [...]

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Photographing concerts is not an easy task, especially indoor concerts. Often, you’ve got get dim lighting conditions. The lights you do have illuminating your scene are often extremes of one colour or another. They oversaturate your shot, you lose a lot of detail and information, especially in highlights and skintones, and your camera’s meter often [...]

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Tethered shooting is a photography technique that has been practiced by many professional photographers for years. In short, tethering allows you to connect your camera to a computer or tablet and almost instantly view your digital images on the device within seconds after it is captured. Due to expense and accessibility, tethered-shooting was generally reserved for photographers who do a lot of studio work andhigh-end commercial photo shoots. However, as tethering technology became... more

Recently, I wastasked with shooting a hotrod. It was exciting from the beginning, because thesekinds of cars are pretty rare here.The owner also wanted his dog sitting on the fender.When you hear that (from a photographer’s point of view), it does not sound that difficult to do. But the picture also has to be huge [...]

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So after the madness that was hurricane Photokina,I am trying to re-adjust to normal life, hence ashort post for you this week, as my body and mind recover! This weeks post is focussing on creating depth in your images. I was recently speaking to a friend on the subject, and came to the conclusion that [...]

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There are many good reasons not to use a kit lens for travel photography. If a kit lens is the only lens you own and you have a photography trip planned, you may be thinking about buying a better quality mid-range zoom or even a prime lens to replace or accompany it.

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Hey guys! Today I’m going to be showing you a cool tip for how to manipulate a natural light image within photoshop to be able to drag some of that control back between the subject and background separation that get’s stripped away when shooting with a strobe. Obviously you can find a better lit location [...]

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I love taking street portraits. Whether the people you are photographing are posing or just going about their day-to-day life, humans are the most captivating, strange and interesting of subjects.

Most of my portraits taken out on the street are shot with the permission of the subject. Thats my style. I love looking for people who intrigue me. I often signal them with a smile and gesture ofmy camera, then watch fortheir reaction. But I also shoot unposed portraits and life on... more

With facial recognition technology you can take pictures of people in the street, run them through publicly available photographs online, and get a match. You would have heard this statement if you had been listening to the 20 September 2016 episode of Seriously on BBC Radio 4, called ‘The Online Identity Crisis’. I only heard [...]

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