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  Getting credentials to any Foruma 1 event is a notable achievement. Thus, when presented with the opportunity, its best to act in a professional manner and not get in the way of the teams and drivers when theyre going about their business. During this weeks pre-season testing in Barcelona, it appears one photographer didnt [...]

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If you’re a photographer on the move, you’re probably in a constant state of battery anxiety. Many of us carry a couple of USB battery packs with us, but with the new generation of USB-C computers coming to market, it’s possible to charge all of your gadgets – including your laptop -on the go using [...]

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Over the last few years I have worked with enough budding new street photography enthusiasts, to notice a common thread of early mistakes that many of them make. A lot of these are verysimple tendencies and changes, that can make a vast difference to the final output. It’s for this reason that I try to teach these 7 tips from the very start. Follow along so you can avoid the seven common mistakes that newbie street photographers make:

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Nest Cam got a lot of things right when they created their home security camera series. It showssuch incredible promise as a powerful timelapse camera, but by screwing up the software, they shot themselves in the foot in what could have been the easiest-to-use high-quality timelapse camera out there. Here’s how they got things wrong, [...]

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With all the gear announcements lately, it’s easy to miss a relatively small name like Godox, but they’ve just announced some updates to their popular Lithium-ion powered range of flash units, and theirQT600 studio strobes. The big news here is thatGodox have also added Sony TTL to the Godox X series of 2.4Ghz radio triggers [...]

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A huge part of your job as a photographer is to make people pause, and linger over a photograph. Sometimes it could be a stunningly lit portrait, or maybe an epic landscape. But, if you’re like me, more than likely you don’t live in an area that will provide you with daily majestic shots, and you likely don’t have a full studio set up. So, you need to find inspiration around you, in the day-to-day grind, which is not always obvious.

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If you are doing anything that has to do with lighting, you know the value ofLighting Diagrams and setup shots as a teaching tool (we use them a lot here on DIYP). But usually they are boring photos with descriptions of flash settings and iso points. PhotographerJoey Hernandez decided that no more! none of his [...]

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Leica cameras are a funny beast in the world of photography. It’s hard to keep respect for a brand that seems to be more keen to create Panda-editions of their cameras for the Chinese market, and $600 cigarette lighters. Having said that, it’s hard to deny that Leica – and especially the special edition cameras [...]

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Tether Tools has announced the Case Relay system, a camera attachment that they claim to be the worlds first device that will allow you to provide uninterrupted power to your camera using a standard wall outlet or USB battery pack, such as the ones you use to charge up your smartphone. The device itself isnt [...]

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For their second video on image editing and retouching, YouTube channel Lensvid shows how you can quickly and simply enhance greens in landscape images using Photoshop. As explained in the 4-minute video, greens can be difficult to work with, as Photoshops built-in color selection tool doesnt often recognize greens as you would expect. Instead of [...]

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