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Two years ago, Apple ditched its photo-editing app iPhoto for the redesigned and newly-named Photos app. As part of that transition, the Cupertino-based company announced its new Photos app would support third-party extensions to help make it more powerful and customizable for users. Known photo app developer MacPhun recently decided to take advantage of this [...]

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Nine times out of ten, I would rather shoot with natural light. But no matter how prepared I am or how keen I am on picking out the perfect moment, the reality is natural light sometimes needs a little assistance to capture the vision I have in my mind. Its at times like these when [...]

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Today, Adobe quietly launched an update to its Photoshop Mix and Fix iOS apps. Along with the updates come a collection of new features and tools to help streamline mobile photography workflows. One of the biggest issues with a mobile workflow is the lack of usable storage. To help combat this, Adobe has updated both [...]

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Having previously used the humble balloon as a soft light diffuser for a camera’s popup flash, the Koldunov Brothers received a question if you could switch out the balloon for a condom to achieve similar results. While they quickly determined that a condom didn’t work quite as well as the balloon as a softbox, the [...]

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One day, as I was looking up to the stars, a revelation came upon me. It got imprinted into me that my career should be in photography. Thats the story Id like to tell myself about how I entered photography. The reality is that I stumbled unto photography quite by accident. I saw a friend of mine who had this very nice professional looking camera. Big, black, sexy, it was a Nikon D80.

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There has been quite a paradeof camera bags launched on the market recently. Peak Designs latest in their line of products with the Everyday Messenger Bag, achieved an... more

I teach a lot of street photography workshops for a living. Im always wondering, How can I best empower my students, help them build their confidence, and ultimately make better images? Honestly, the most important way for a photographer to make better images is to build their social skills. Why? Social skills permeate all aspects [...]

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In a press release today, Samyang Optics (also sold under the namesRokinonandBower) have announced two new lenses designed for Sony full frame mirrorless cameras,marking their debut into the autofocus lens market. Having thus far limited themselves to manual focus lenses, today brings us the Samyang 50mm f/1.4 AS IF UMCAF and Samyang 14mm f/2.8 UMCAF [...]

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I getthe charm of shooting video on an iPhone, especially since picking up an iPhone SE. It’s small, it’s always with you, and the video itcan produce is pretty impressive. But where my SE hasthe advantage of a slew of cases available that let me hook it up to all kinds of other video shooting [...]

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There is quite a debate going in the photographic community, which one is more comfy: back packs or shoulder bags. This has been going on every since I can remember andtalking strictly from a functional perspective I can see pluses and minuses for both. (if you base your decision on style, which is perfectly ok, [...]

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