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After years of shooting landscapes, photographer Daniel Alford came to realize that some of his favorite photos werent landscapes at all they were portraits, albeit very little ones. Up until this realization, Alford did everything he could to avoid getting humans in his beautiful landscape photographs. But while sorting through his work one day, [...]

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Get your gavels ready. Canon USA has filed a pair of lawsuits against a handful of online photography retailers in an attempt to halt the sales of grey market gear equipment that is legal and often cheaper to purchase, but isnt covered by Canons warranty. Eric Reagan of Photography Bay was the first to [...]

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One of the more recent trends in time-lapse videos has been capturing the transition from day to night. While the process might seem like a difficult one, its fairly straightforward once you have down the basics. To teach you those basics, photographer/cinematographer Cal Thomson has created this helpful tutorial. In the ten minute tutorial, Thomson [...]

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Last weekend, I went out on a photo date with Madison, and came home swooning. In a world where camera bags largely take the form of backpacks, shoulder sling bags, and messenger bags, finding a vessel to transport camera gear is notoriously difficult for women who would rather carry something that appears more feminine.

That is the problem identified by Michele Ng, a former marketing executive who founded Aide de Camp with the intent of producing attractive camera bags for busy and... more

If you own a Sony E-mount camera and have any old Nikon F-mount lenses laying around the house or stored away in the attic, you might want to get them out and dust them off. The worlds first Nikon F-mount autofocus adapter made by Commlite for Sony E-mount has gone on sale. Canon has received [...]

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When you take a photograph, what is essentially happening is that the camera is capturing data, which creates a digital image. There are many different types of file formats, which can be retrieved and edited using a photo editing software. The most commonly used ones are:

  • JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
  • TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)
  • RAW
  • DNG (Digital Negative Format)
  • PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
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When Jeremy and Emma approached me about including a Story Art piece as part of their wedding day coverage I was initially hesitant. My composites often takes hours of pre planning, not to mention the time that would need to be allocated to the shoot itself, on the wedding day. I love to take a [...]

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Taking portraits is something I really love. When there is a model available, you get a lot of freedom regarding the pose, expressions and styling. However, during my travels when I want to portray people in their authentic environment, I usually dont get to choose a model, because it is about the people who are [...]

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Past and present film shooters will love this short video while newcomers to photography will scratch their heads wondering whats going on. Robert Marshall of Round One Films captured the entire film process, step-by-step, from beginning to end. Youll have to imagine the smell, but the sounds and sights of this critically endangered process were [...]

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Last time we featured Vincent Laforets work he had just finished photographing his AIR project in London and Barcelona and was preparing to shoot above Paris, Berlin and Venice. Now that he has completed the project and released a book containing high-altitude aerial night-time photos from 10 iconic cities, Leo Laporte of The New Screen [...]

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