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If an amazing light painting portrait has caught your eye sometime over the last few years, you’ve probably seen the work of Montral, based visual artist Eric Par. I first noticed Eric’s work when he released his LightSpin projectback in 2013 – featuringgroundbreaking and truly spectacular 360 degree bullet time light painting. Since then Eric [...]

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If your spouse has ever told you to put your camera down or that youre spending too much time taking photos, you might want to start taking the warning a bit more seriously. Apparently, as Mr Cai of Taipei recently found out, an obsession for photography can be grounds for a divorce. According to Apple [...]

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If youre a photo-fanatic, there is a lot to keep up with. New camera models are being announced way too often, firmware updates, fancy new lenses keep popping up, and on and on.

I didnt even mention software yet but now that I have, lets see whats new with our old pal Lightroom (LR) and its latest upgrade.

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Blood is crucial to movies. And it is not just the gore-filled, army oriented, zombie killing movies. Every time someone get hit and need to bleed a bit, there is the issue of where blood comes from. Of course, you can not use real blood. There are moral and ethical issues with that. Not to [...]

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I have always had a soft spot for 1940s and 50s Film Noir, where there is always a gorgeous Femme Fatale, whose charms are most likely going to get you killed. The light in those movies is the key to the ambience of mystery and danger, and I love the way the scenes are composed with smoke, shadows, and the black and white high drama with dim light aesthetic.

These movies were mostly low-budget productions shot on location in city streets, with an abundance of night scenes, where crime... more

Im going to ask you to put your camera down for now. I know its a lot to ask, but the secret Ive discovered to better portrait photography has, in fact, very little to do with your camera.

One of the most common mistakes budding portrait photographers make is to be so focused on getting the technical aspects right, they completely forget about the most important feature of a portrait – the person standing in front of their lens.

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I’ve generally been a natural light photographer. I understand natural light and love its variability. Normally it’s enough to get some beautiful photographs; many photographers stop here and go no further.

Constantly critical of my own photographs, I realized that I was at the mercy of natural light, searching and modifying, but rarely creating or directing. That’s why I chose to learn how to use flash those years ago. To get full control, it’s essential to put... more

Nobody likes having their creative content stolen, and everybody wants to be paid for their work. While file sharing has altered the power dynamic of the music industry – the music industry did successfully blow up Napster (if you’re under 30 you probably don’t recognize the name Napster – but its rise and fall was [...]

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As the year cycles, each month has some flora that reaches its peak. It would be interesting to looks at a year as a sum of each month’s ripened fruits and vegetables. And this is what photographers Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreavesdid. Theyscanned the ripe fruits of each month an created a kaleidoscopic image out [...]

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This week since it is the week of goblins and ghouls and spooky things, let’s do some photography in the dark! You can check out these image of light trails to get some ideas.

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