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With influences ranging from The Avengers and X-Men to Star Wars and The Martian, French photographer Sofiane Samial (AKA Samsofy) spends his days making amazing Lego photography in a project titled Legography. Intriqued by Samsofy’s work, DIYP reached out to get some more insight into this project, discussing his inspirations, and how he creates them. [...]

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Star trails have become a very popular photography subject, especially with the high ISO performance offered by some cameras over the last few years, but few will have the opportunity of creating them from such unimpeded views as the International Space Station. Don Pettit is one of those few, stacking short exposures of the stars [...]

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Aimed at Hollywood’s heaviest hitters as well as independent aerial cinematographers, DJI have announcedtheir new Matrice 600 drone & Ronin-MX gimbal stabilizer. Able to carry a payload of up to 13.2 pounds, the Matrice 600 is perfectly suited to a range of cameras from Nikon and Canon DSLRs, to RED and Arri cinema cameras. As [...]

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My name is Chris Knig, a 23 years old self-taught photographer, based in The Netherlands. This story is about my one week adventure in the Italian Dolomites, in which I tried to challenge myself, not only on a photography level, but on a personal level as well. I crawled through 2 meters deep snow, I [...]

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Brooklyn Bridge picture taken using a remote shutter release and a neutral density filter, which could be eliminated with camera improvements.

It is becoming almost cliche, but there has never been a better time to be a photographer. What we can do now with modern digital cameras, without spending that much money, isincredible. Without breaking the bank, you can now get an extremely high resolution digital camera, with low light performance and a dynamic range... more

Apple is now doing to Quicktime what Adobe did to Flash a few years ago. Not for the same reasons, but the impact is similar. Apple has stopped updating its Quicktime software for Windows and nowthe United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued anAlert (TA16105-A), which recommends Windows users uninstall Apple QuickTime from their computers. [...]

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Wedding photographers, this the feature you’ve all been waiting for. The new cameras from Sony have a nifty feature that allows you to register a face and then tell the camera to look for a specific face and then try and find them in the frame and force focus on them. This feature works by [...]

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Smooth water effect edited in Affinity Photo using the Live Stacks feature.

Even if you dont shoot landscape photography, photos of waterfalls with the smooth water and glassy appearance are awesome. The gist to achieving this, and I do stand corrected if I have this wrong, is as follows:

  • Slow shutter speeds – the need for a tripod
  • A remote shutter release or your cameras timer
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Of course, no sane person would subject themselvesto being hit by a flying drone, but researches atAalborg Universityin Denmark used a pieceof pork and a propeller catapult to simulate the impact bare flash would suffer if hit by a drone. And it isn’t pretty. The team uses a 3-meter aluminumcatapult that can accelerate a 1-kilogram [...]

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