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Its not always easy to be a photographer, seeing all of the great photo opportunities around us, and wanting to capture them all. Recently, I was working with a student of mine, and she wanted to know how to handle changing settings quickly from one situation to another. Her example was trying to go from photographing landscapes, to trying to focus on a bird or other wildlife that may quickly enter the scene. While some seasoned photographers may be ready for a situation such as this, its... more

What is the best camera for street photography? What do you recommend? That is the question I get asked most. In the last years I have been changing cameras a lot always in the search for the better on. In retrospect I can say gear swapping did not really help me improving my photography. Let [...]

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It’s almost like you can’t go to anevent these dayswithout seeing a photo booth. Whether it’s a wedding, an office party, or just a weekend barbecue with family and friends, there seems to be a photo booth. There are a million different ways to make photo booths, from super expensive RED powered slow-mo boothsto3D photo [...]

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Most of ushave a fairly solid order of priorities in our lives. Family comes first, then photography, then everything else. For some folks,those firsttwo are the other way around, but whatever allows us to spend moretime with our family or our camera is a good thing. I don’t really consider sitting at a computer to [...]

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Adobe Sparkis a new app from Adobe that allows users to create template based social media graphics (Spark Post), web stories (Spark Page) and animated videos (Spark Video) using a simple online interface (read our review of Spark Post here). The Spark Page module is designed to allow users to create online magazine style web [...]

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Cinematic style portraits are personally one of my favourites. What I like the most about them are the desaturated colours and the dramatic ambience.

Before we start the tutorial on colour grading, I will give you some of my best tips to achieve this cinematic look:

  • Use a large aperture, something between f/1.4 and f/2.0. If you have a long lens then you can also... more

Information about Fuji’spossibleentry into the mirrorless medium format worldis mostly just speculation, but it seems it’s becoming a matter of “when” rather than “if” Fuji will announcesomething. Fuji Rumorsarereporting that a “trusted source” has told them it will be “definitely more affordable” than Hasselblad’s new X1D. There’s been talk about Fuji releasing a medium format [...]

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When it comes to creative advertising, beer companies often spring to mind as being some of the most ridiculousculprits.They want to make us laugh, they want to remind us how “fun” it can beto consume alcohol. Not to be outdone, German breweryBergedorfer Bier, are having a go at the maternity photography genre with their latest [...]

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You maybe wondering shouldnt you always place your subject or main point of interest off-center? Isnt that what the rule of thirds is about? If so, I suggest you refer back to my earlier article about creating strong compositions with a centrally placed subject. It makes the point that its perfectly possible to create a well composed image with the subject placed centrally.

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Snapchat might be quite a silly and frivolous app to some people, while others live on it. Regardless of your thoughts on its practical application, it employs some pretty serious technology in order to be able to do what it does with its “lenses”, or filters as most people callthem. From the samefacial recognition principles [...]

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