Photography Blogs & Tutorials

For most of us, the joy of photography goes beyond taking a great image,to being able to share our pictures and experiences with our friends and family. To do storytelling with images.

How many times have you been traveling and come across someone interesting that you wanted to share with your family? Did asking for permission hold you back? Did you get a photo or series of photos that really tell the story? Were your photographs different and did each add a new perspective?

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We posted a review on this just earlier today, but here’s the full specs and info on the new Profoto D2 Monolight. Here’s the short version, though. Up to 20 flashes per second, action freezing flash durations as fast as 1/63,000ofh of a second and high speed sync with all shutter speeds all the way [...]

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When Profoto added TTL, High Speed Sync, and studio-level power to the Profoto B1 battery-powered monolight, it was revolutionary. But the newest flash, which the company describes as the Worlds Fastest Monolight, is built to take the Profoto AirTTL system to the next level with even faster and more powerful lights. The Profoto D2 500/1000 [...]

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It’s been rumouredfor while now that Canon would start introducing LCDs into their lenses. Last week, we even saw some suggestions as to what they might display, thanks to a couple of newly released patents. Well, now, all the guesswork is over. Canon have officially announced the EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 IS II USM lens. Like [...]

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There are no unbreakablerules when it comes to how you should compose your photographs After all, who likes rules except for your old school principal or heads of H.R. departments? There are however, several guidelines you can use to help improve the composition of your photos. In this tutorial, Ive listed 20 of these guidelines [...]

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If you ever quite liked the idea of strolling thoughtown wearing a “Happy senior couple piggybacking at the beach” long sleeved t-shirt, well, your time has come. The clothing line you never even knew you wanted is finally here (kind of), thanks to Adobe Stock. Don’t be so quick with the“Buy now!” button, though. It’s [...]

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For several years Canon had a love hate relationship with mirrorless technology. They did not want to hurt their DSLR sales so they did not release anything good. On the other hand, they could not avoid the future. This led to the weird M line, which was better as an aesthetic piece than as a [...]

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You know that you were waiting for this. After trashing the Canon 5Dmk4no clean HDMI output, Rolling shutter issues and lack of many video features, finally there is something nice to say about the camera. The final score is 91, which is better than any camera in the Canon line up. But, according to DxO, [...]

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What is it with all these “world’s firsts” lately? It almost seems like companies are trying to outdo each other for an ego stroke, no matter how ludicrous their announcement may be. Well, now, it’s Laowa’s turn. Again. The first new lensisthe 7.5mm f/2 for Micro Four Thirds cameras, the widest f/2 lens ever designed [...]

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How many times have you shown your pictures to someone and said, You should have seen that sunset in person to understand how magic it was! We can make many excuses as to why the photo doesnt look the same, complaining about our equipment, settings or post-production, but lets face reality, maybe there was something wrong with our landscape photo!

Before you open Photoshop, and even before you press the shutter button, you need to plan the kind of image you want to create. Planning... more

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