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Shooting in black and white can be an amazingly creative way to explore new areas of photography, and help you see not only your pictures, but the world around you in a whole new light. However, unless you are shooting with black and white film or with a dedicated black and white camera like the Leica M Monochrom, all your pictures will initially be shot in color and later transformed into black and white through software tricks or filters.

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states brought with it quite a stir in the photography community. One group was cheering in victory, calling for further legislation making it illegal for photographers and wedding vendors to refuse clientsbased on religious beliefs. Another group was crying out that their religious freedoms [...]

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Everyone loves a good fairytale…or, at least my daughter does. (Me? Not so much…) But it was on July 29, 1981 that the world looked on at the fairytale wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. (Sure, it didn’t last, but so what?) Lord Patrick Lichfield was the only photographer allowed to capture the candid [...]

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Can you visualize the world around you in black and white? It’s not easy to do at first with an array bright colors competing for your attention. Look a little closer however, and you may recognize the broad potential for expressive imagery. Of course, not every situation lends itself to this artistic style. There are however, certain characteristics you can look for, to identify the best opportunities.

1) EmbraceHigh Contrast

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Looking at the events from last year or so, it was just a matter of time until something like this happen. A drone had a near miss with anAirbus A320 airplane in Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. The Airbus A320 was operated byBrussels Airlines and carries 160 staff and passengers. On Monday afternoon flight BEL3289 [...]

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One of the secret powers of the Mixer Brush is that it can sample multiple colors or even pixels to use for its stroke. This is great for creating color-rich strokes to simulate painting with a real brush, but for this project were going to use an image as the paint source to create repeating segments that can be used for anything from robot arms to your very own superworm.

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For no particular reason red was never my first choice when it came to planning the colour pallette of a photo shoot, so a while back I decided that at some point I would throw myself wholly at it and try and create some beautiful high impact images. Like with all my ideas it had [...]

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If you’re a wedding photographer, you’re probably used to walking into the bride’s house / bridal suite / hotel room, taking a quick glance around and then thinking….right…so how can I possibly work with this space… Well, in this post I want to share the details of the most amazingly photogenic living room ever – [...]

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Formerly a traditional blog, Strobist is now organized as a knowledge bank with occasional content updates. For those who prefer the traditional, last-in first-out blog format, this is the place to see the most recent entries. (Or, switch back to the Knowledge Bank view.)

Please note that some housekeeping posts are omitted from this view. As always, you can search by month and year on the Monthly Archives drop-down on the sidebar at right.... more

Some people have all the fun…somethingI’ve never really ever been accused of. But, that’s not the case for photographer and Yale MFA graduateVictoria Hely-Hutchinson. In what is probably one of the most epic About pages I have ever seen, Victoria wastes no time withthe usual BS about awards and accolades and exhibits. Who really cares [...]

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