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The Eiffel Tower. The Statue of Liberty. Redwood trees.Not all the world fits into our horizontal frame of it. Some of it climbs up and up! For those images you need to learn a new technique; vertical panoramas, or vertoramas as they are known.

What are vertoramas?

A vertorama is simply a panorama, but shot vertically. It is for the tall things of the world, and uses much of the... more

DJI have today announced a new product that doesn’t include a camera of their own; the DJI Osmo Mobile. Like the recently announced Osmo+, it’s a handheld gimbal designed for shooting smooth handheld video. The Osmo Mobile, however, steadies your smartphone. It also has a subject tracking feature which looks absolutely amazing. The Osmo Mobile’s [...]

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I recently returned from a seven day wilderness canoe trip to Algonquin Provincial Park with my family. The purpose of the trip was half family vacation and half extended photoshoot for my portfolio at Stocksy United. Backcountry canoeing with an eight and ten year old meant that we had to stick to a relatively moderate [...]

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Tamron have today announced theupdated “G2” next generation version ofits popular 150-600mm f/5-6.3 zoom lens. The new lens boasts faster autofocus and enhanced vibration control (VC) offering up to 4.5 stops of steadiness. It also has a fewnew features not found in its predecessor. They say that the new iteration has been developed in response [...]

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GoPro has their Karma drone in the works for quite a long time now (and we are still waiting…) Meanwhile, their chief action camera competitor, YITechnology just got ahead ofthem on the curve. Yi will announce the Yi Erida Drone in one week at the InterDrone conference. According to YI, it will be aTri-Copter drone [...]

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When you begin doing portrait lighting for the first time, the general advice you get is to put your light at 45 to your subject, and aim it down at 45. It’s a quick way to get something reasonably good, without a lot of understanding. With a little more knowledge, you can make better lighting decisions, and get more dramatic images.

Light has four main properties:
  1. Quantity
  2. Quality
  3. Color
  4. Direction

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This is one of those announcements that’s going to split the photography world in two. Some will be over the moonthat such a tool exists. Others will be infuriated that yet another piece of software is taking the skill away from photography & retouching.A few will also not care one way or the other. Regardless [...]

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AnAdvertising Agency approach me for making the Key-visuals for a transportation Industry Company. They had the idea of forming different Mode of Transportation like Car, Boat, Moto and Truck with the Body of their Worker. To get the best out of the idea. I had to modify the idea, and work with professional Dancers instead [...]

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Finding information on new cameras before they’re available is both easy and difficult at the same time. There’s so much information and speculation out there that there’s a lot to sift through. When it comes to the 5D Mark IV, Canon Asia have made it easy puttingthe manual available for download. So, if you want [...]

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Getting started in photography can be quite scary. We all start by investing in a DSLR, and think we are going to take amazing images. In reality it is a bit more difficult, because if it was easy… well everybody would sell prints, quit their day job, and live off photography.

Just like any art, photography has to be learned, and practiced – a lot. It is a trial and error process, we all start at the bottom and build our way up.

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