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Everything seems to be getting smaller and smaller these days. Cameras and lenses don’t seem to be immune to this phenomenon, despite some cameras pushing for bigger. Of course, there’s no real right or wrong when it comes to the size of your camera, just whether or not it will do the job. One of [...]

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Here is a cool tagging idea we got fromRoni Chastain. Roni uses dog tags for marking her gear. In an email to DIYP she explains: … I have them [dog tag ] on my cameras, bags, tripod. I had my daughter put them on their sneakers, when they go out running… …My thoughts have always [...]

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Admit it! object masking sucks. It’s not that it is impossible, even the hardest selections and masks can be created with some work (and some methods require less work that others). But, in general, masking is a hard and tedious work. Researchers in theThe Chinese University of Hong Kong working with Adobe Research are now [...]

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At first glance this seems like an easy thing to achieve, how hard can it be to get a great looking gelled background in your shot? As anybody who has used gels in the past will tell you, there’s certainly a few key things to pay attention to if you want to avoid those flat, [...]

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I bought a stack of foreign Vogue magazines for inspiration, and inside of Vogue Italia I saw an amazing photo of Alessandra Ambrosio on a beach at night (the imageat the bottom of this page). I tucked it away in a manila envelope labeled “Possible Shoots”. For a year and a half, every time I [...]

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One of the most difficult and frustrating parts about shooting with film, back before the days of digital photography, was the limited amount of attempts you had to get the photo you wanted. I remember carrying around spare rolls of film in afanny (waist) pack on a trip to Walt Disney World years ago, and carefully considering each photo, lest I get one setting wrong and blow the entire shot.

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CFast is the industry’s answer toSony’s XQD card(in a neverending standard war), but looks like this card is not without its issues. Canon just released an advisory asking photographers to avoid using some of Sandisk’s CFast cards on1DXmkII‘s because it may corrupt images stored on the card (which is kinda funnyconsidering Amazonis offering CFast cards [...]

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Photographing superheroes has become quite popular lately. Some use human subjects, while others use toy action figures, but this take on the superhero genre is very unique and fun. French photographer Sacha Goldberger asked some questions and, as a result, plunged some of the most iconic characters of recent memory into the 17th century with [...]

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The 4th of July is rapidly approaching, and some of our American readers may be getting ready to have a go at some fireworks photography.Fireworks aren’t difficult to photograph, but they aren’t something you want to go into blind. In this video from photographerDavid Bergman at AdoramaTVwe get some great advice for photographing fireworks effectively [...]

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Sony has spent recent years charging full steam ahead into the full-frame mirrorless camera market. But they have also managed to satisfy the desires of APS-C shooters, mainly through their widely-popular a6000mid-range mirrorless camera. In March 2016, just two years after the debut of the a6000, Sonyreleased the a6300 with improved features, that still retain many of the characteristics of the older model.

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