Photography Blogs & Tutorials

I hear it over and over, I have a nice camera but my pictures just dont come out as good as I expect.

What ensues is an interrogation first about equipment selection, settings, and general technique. More often than not when we finally get down to the nitty gritty, the fact is that many people not only have a difficult time identifying what’s wrong with their photos, let alone determining how to prevent it, or fix it in post-processing.

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What is conceptual photography? Have you heard about it, but not been able to work out what it is? Who are the artists doing it? How can you do it? If you have asked yourself any of these questions, then read on and see if they can be answered for you.

Conceptual photography is a type of fine art photography. Like the latter, everyone you ask will give you a different definition. It is an art form that has been around for as long as people have been making art. It seems to be something... more

Intuos Photo Creative Pen and Touch Tablet

In this article Ill review the Wacom Intuos Photo Creative Tablet Small. Wacom brought out this model, and three other similar ones, back in September 2015. The only difference is they come bundled with different... more

Photo shoots are stressful enough when youre dealing with even a handful of human subjects. Could you imagine if you had to shoot over 12,000 animals? Well, this endeavor is a reality for photographer Joel Sartore, who was commissioned by National Geographic to capture Photo Ark, a series of portraits that show off the worlds [...]

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This week has been acquisition galore. First, the rumor of Nikon buying out Samsungs NX sensor business (which has since been denied by the latter of the two), then came news that Phase One acquired Mamiya for its medium format technology. Today, Sony announced it has inked a deal that solidifies a $154 million buyout [...]

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Do you have a lot of backup drives laying around your office? Would you prefer to have them consolidated into a single, more efficient drive? If so, Western Digitals new 10TB helium-filled hard drive is just for you. Increasing the capacity from its predecessors, the HGST Ultrastar He10 is a new 3.5 hard drive that [...]

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Kids! Gotta love them. I don’t have any myself but I enjoy being around them, and taking in their energy and freedom they exhibit. They say what’s on their mind and aren’t afraid of what other people think when they dance, sing, do art, etc. We adults can learn a lot from them.

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Fan films are hard to produce, especially if they are on a high standard and even more so if they are using zero budget. We have seen a cool Game Of Thronesfan movietwo years ago, and now the anticipated game Mirror’s Edge gets a fan treatment fromPaul Hillier. Mirror’s Edge is a futuristic game that [...]

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Marco Grob might be scared of robots, but when the TIME Magazine contract photographer was asked to shoot the cast of the new Star Wars movie, he wasnt going to let a little fear get in the way of work. In this behind the scenes video, TIME gives us an inside look at how Grob [...]

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Kids have a natural free spirit about them. They don’t sensor themselves and they do what they want, how they want, when they want to – usually.

Let’s see some images (you’ll notice that a few of these are my own images) that capture this essence of what it is to be a kid:

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