Photography Blogs & Tutorials

The first thing I was told to do when I wanted to learn how to photograph landscapes and cityscapes, was to always shoot during the sunset. I have always asked myself why, but the answer is actually pretty easy. You get amazing colors in the sky, dramatic clouds, and soft light.

You can photograph the most beautiful place in the world and I can guarantee you, it will look much better during the sunset. The only problem with this mindset, is that you will never take another image... more

If you ever need a good reason to not leave your baggage unattended, this is it. After a “hard black box” was foundon the steps ofCity Hall in Kansas City, what happened next seems obvious. The suspicious package was reported to the police, who promptly came and blew it up. KSHB reports that police were [...]

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Nikon have officially announced the D3400, their newest entry level DSLR. Successor to the D3300 and D3200 that came before it, the changes aren’t all that great, as you might expect. But they have added theirnew Bluetooth connected SnapBridge technology. There’s some pretty significant weight savings and the ISO limit has beenbumped up to 25,600. [...]

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It appears the first full images of the actual 5D Mark IVbodyhave been leaked. There’s a couple ofvisualchanges between it and its predecessor. The most obvious being that the “Mark XX” badge has been moved. This has allowed Canon to move the shutter release cable socket around to the front. The eagle eyed amongst you [...]

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If you are still not on the Adobe subscription model maybe this is the deal that will flip you. Adobe usually bundles Photoshop CC + Lightroom in what they call a “Photography Plan”. This plan usually sells for $9.99/month (or119.88/year). Even if you are a student, the price stays the same. Now Amazon has a [...]

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We have all felt the frustration of editing an image either in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), only to remember that we forgot to adjust the white balance, or tweak the sharpening after we’ve spent hours of editing the image in Photoshop. If this has happened to you, let me introduce to you to something called a Smart Object.

Smart Objects give you greater flexibility in your editing workflow inside Photoshop.You can createa Smart Object when opening your image from... more

I always find it interesting to read about the things cameras survive that the manufacturers could never have foreseen. X.Fire and ice, car crashes, months under the ocean, rocket engines, and even babies. Photographer Brian Maneelyrecently discovered just how tough andsealedhis Pentax K-5 IIswas. While photographing a wildfire, it wasdoused with pink fire retardant and [...]

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Seascape photography isn’t something that’s really been high on my list. I’ve lived near beaches almost all of my life, but they’ve been a bit toofeatureless for my photographic tastes. If you arelucky enough to live near a picturesque coastline, photographer Karl Taylor offerssome greattipsin his newvideo. Some of the tricksalso workaround lakes, rivers and [...]

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Raise your hand if you ever lost/bricked/killed an iPhone or an Android*. Raise your other hand if that phone has lots of photos that you will never see again. That could be quite sad, and I have a friend who lost their iPhone today, so instead of going all “I told you so” on him, [...]

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Canon filed a patent for a 28-560mm f/2.8-5.6L IS lens just a few short months ago. Now, they’ve taken out the image stabilisation and filed another. Many believed that the previous filing wasjust another patent that would never actually exist in the real world. This new filing suggests that it might happen after all. It’s [...]

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