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The dark art of Matt Barnes

At the moment the UK has a movement of dark art and conceptual artists growing from a love of movies and Photoshop. Their work is creeping its way on to more commercial mainstream sites like Behance, and starting to make an impact, amongst the more straight cut photography. One pioneer of this movement is Matt [...]

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This is how you build a portable charger case to answer all your power needs

If you are shooting on location (and even if not) you must have a ton of batteries to power your production war-horse. The camera takes batteries, the lights take batteries, remotes, phones, monitors. Actually, most devices take more than one battery. And every battery set want their own charger. And every charger want it’s out [...]

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Review – The ThinkTank Photo Airport Roller Derby Bag

For those who know me, they know that I have a slight obsession with camera bags. There are just so many varieties; roller bags, backpacks, shoulder bags, etc., so it gets a little hard to get bored of them!

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Professional retoucher “spills the beans” on how swimsuit campaigns are really edited

We know that those models that we are seeing on cover shoots have been shooed to death. We shared a few of those before/after over the years (see here, here and here for just a few). So we know that extreme retouching exists, and we also know that it’s an issue that bogs both models [...]

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Teens shoot real-time, 4K drone footage of their boat being stolen, police recovers the vehicle

One of the greatest impacts of “drones” coming into our lives is the impact it has on photojournalism. Drones can go places that photographers just can’t go by foot. Here is a story that illustrates this perfectly (though its only relation to photography is the drone involved). According to ABC, a couple ofteenagers – Chris [...]

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This 24 square meter contact print is the largest ever

Looking at a print 24 square meters large up close is impressive, but having it made from a contact print elevates it to quite a different level. Contact printis a way of printing photographs in which the negative (or positive) is pressed against a the photo paper and then exposed. This creates a photo at [...]

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Photographers vs Retouchers

This is something I’ve been pondering for a while now and man has it got me excited! What happens when you get a photographer who retouches his own images vs a retoucher who does it for high end clients as a living? Let’s find out the results! So I contacted the awesome David Neilandsabout joining [...]

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How to Enhance Portraits Using Gray Layers to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

What is dodging and burning?

The techniques of dodging and burning are hand-me-downs from the days of the darkroom. The idea was to manipulate parts of an image while the paper was being exposed to light from the enlarger, wherethe negative was fitted. In order to decrease the exposure (lighten) onparts of an image, the paper had to be exposed for less time, which was dodging. To increase exposure (darken) it needed to be exposed for more time, which was burning.

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Why Off-Camera Flash Isn’t as Scary as you Think

Flash

The word alone has the potential to cause dread, even among experienced photographers, bringing to mind images of overexposed faces and red eyes. Because of this, many photographers avoid flash altogether, keeping a safe distance at all times. I think that’s too bad.

It’s a missed opportunity. Sure, flash may not always be applicable to your situation – but it’s very helpful to have another tool in your bag of tricks if and when it is needed.