Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Image Rights (imagerights.com) is a middleman for those of us not in tune with the various legal systems, as they pertain to unauthorized use of our images. Its an opportunity to go after copyright infringement (entities who use your photo work without your permission) and effectively hire a lawyer in a number of countries. Its also a discovery service to find out where you images are being used.

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Facebook is probably the biggest media outlet in the word, which probably makes Mark Zuckerberg the most powerful editor in the world. But with great power comes great responsibility, and that means that Facebook should be extra careful when deciding which photos they are removing from their network. The story begins with Facebook removing a [...]

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It looks like Nikon are planning to not only enter the world of 360VR but take on the action cameras, too. It makes sense. It’s a huge market, and many action camera owners have 2 or 3 of them. The KeyMission delays are believed to be due to the earthquakes experienced in Japan earlier in [...]

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A while back me and fellow DIY writer Joseph Parrywere chatting over messenger. We had just started following a blog called Canon of designby Tavis Leaf Glover. Canon of design is a treasure mine of compositional information, which studies the master painters and how they designed, constructed and finished their masterpieces. These guys spent months, [...]

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Note: For this tutorial I am using Photoshop CS6, however every version from CS2 up will work for this technique.

What is Infrared Photography?

Infrared (IR) light lies just beyond the visible spectrum, so we cant actually see it with the naked eye. However, IR photography allows us to view this spectrum with a camera, to capture a whole new world of invisible light.

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Sony was always a weird player in the action cam arena. While everyone was doing GoPro like cameras (aside contour, maybe), they were sticking to their weird camcorderdesign. But now it seems that their different form factor is also holding some best in market features. Most notably is stabilized 4K recording. Sony released two new [...]

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If you were to mention the term ‘formal analysis’ to an art historian today, you’d probably be told it’s pass. No one really tries to objectively compare one painting against another using formal concepts anymore. However, formal analysisor the concepts that it identifieddoes still present some interesting ideas, especially for photographers. Swiss art historian Heinrich [...]

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Becoming a travel photographer or filmmakerhas had a resurgence in the last few years. It’s one of those markets of photography that took a little dip for a while as cameras got into the hands of more people. Suddenly, companies didn’t need to send photographers to far flung corners of the globe any more. It [...]

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After the sun goes down it’s a great time to get out and photography in the city. Here are some good examples of photography in the city at night to give you some ideas.

Weekly Photography Challenge – City at Night

By Andrew Xu

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You may remember Laowa fully funded their new12mm f/2.8 lens kickstarter within 30 seconds of going live last month. Thanks to the claims of high quality and “Zero Distortion” (or really close to it), people took notice andthey pre-sold over 700 lenses. At the time of the campaign launch, one of the videos for the [...]

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