Photography Blogs & Tutorials

Today, as is the case most days, I check out my phone to see that I have an app update. Given the number of iOS apps I’ve used over the years that have suddenly become useless, unstable, or removed significant features with newer versions, I’ve disabled automatic app updates. Upon seeing that an update was [...]

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With more and more budget telephoto lenses hitting the market, wildlife photography is becoming increasingly accessible. Consequently, you dont have to look very far to see beautiful wildlife portraits, shot with a clean bokeh using a long lens. Close-ups like this definitely have their place, but this traditional form of wildlife photography is perhaps harder to achieve stand-out photos within nowadays.

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Broncolor have today announced the Siros 800 L and 400 L, Lithium Ion powered flash units, expanding the Siros family of flash units to let you more easily take them outside of the studio. Available in both 400Ws and 800Ws flavours, the Broncolor Siros L features Broncolor’s ECTC technology, to help ensure consistent colour temperature [...]

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Anybody who’s ever shot video indoors will, at some point,havecome across the issue of flickering lights and scanlines moving up and down your image while trying to record. Well,Jonas Stenstromof Rob & Jonas’ Filmmaking Tips is here to help, explaining exactly what causes this and how to overcome it, even when your frame rate doesn’t [...]

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The Raspberry Pi is amazing. Instant cameras are also amazing. So, it makes sense that somebody would eventually combine them, creating a Raspberry Pi powered instant camera, which is exactly what Adafruit have done. Ok, so you’re not going to be getting lab quality prints from this, and the Impossible Project might be more your [...]

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It seems that these kinds of reports are getting all too common. And this makes me sad.Buckrail reports thatOn Saturday afternoon, four men ran out onto the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park. Since one of the folks had a glidecam in hand, I can only assume that he was a videographer. The person [...]

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Have you ever obsessed over instagraming (or “gramming”*) your coffee rather that spend quality time with the person you are having that coffee with? I know I have. I know I have asked my buddies to use their phones as kicker lights; I know I have used menus as reflectors and I sure as heck [...]

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Benjamin Franklin once said “For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.” And no truer words have been spoken, well apart from “its finger licking good!”….but lets not get on to the colonel and his tasty chicken fillets. As photographers, most of us tend to have creative brains, which in my own experience, [...]

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Boneyard Beach, Botany Bay Plantation, South Carolina. Edited in Macphun Intensify Creative Kit.

My philosophy on photography has always been that photography starts with the push of the shutter button, but it does not end there. Back when film was king, I spend a lot of time in the darkroom, learning and mastering darkroom techniques, and printing my work. With the advent of the digital age, those processes moved to the digital darkroom. Always one for working... more

Developed by a three man team describing themselves as a passionate photographer, a frustrated engineer and an electronics geek, the TinyMOShas been designed from the ground up specifically for the purpose of astrophotography. Over the past year, the three have been working a way to get to the point where they’re ready to open up [...]

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