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Lighting is hands-down one of the most important elements in visual production and has the power to single-handedly alter the mood and perception of an entire scene. On a more macro level, lighting position, more so than diffusion or tone,is probably the most vital aspect to control. Lighting affects our moods, distortsspace and time, and [...]

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Maybe it’s easy to distance ourselves from violent criminals. We see death row inmates on the tv, the newspaper, but, for the most part, we only know about them what the media is reporting.We don’t know for example, what books they’ve read or which movie is their favorite. Maybe we don’t need to know those [...]

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Exposure settings for this shot: Shutter speed of 4 seconds; aperture at f/5.6; ISO 400.

Night photography can be much more rewarding than photography during the day. Because everything looks different at night, you don’t need to go somewhere exotic to get great pictures. Bridges, attractions, and buildings are usually brightly lit at night, and places that might seem rather pedestrian during the day – can make stellar photography subjects at night.... more

Men photographerslisten up, you need to be more like women. Women photographerslisten up, you need to be more like men. Men need to be in touch with their feminine side in order to be better photographers and women need to stop being so feminine in order to be better photographers. Am I the only one [...]

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The Sony a7S is well known for the quality of its groundbreaking high-ISO video, with an endless amount of test videos posted online. Back in September of last year one video rose above the rest when Carbon Studios released a short film lit entirely by moonlight, aptly named Moonlight. Blown away by the video, a [...]

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Hey everyone, thanks for visiting! Im Will Chao, a wedding photographer in Melbourne. When I was first asked to review this lens, I didnt believe such a lens existed and thought it was a low quality toy lens. I mean, how could I? A lens of this type has been unheard of until now, and [...]

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Venus Optics, which recently made headlines with its 2:1 60mm f/2.8 macro lens with infinity focus, is back with another unusual. This time its the manual focus Laowa 15mm f/4 wide-angle macro lens – an extremely interesting full-frame lens capable of creating highly unusual images. Below are some of the Laowa 15mms specs: 110 degrees [...]

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Taylor Swifts open letter to Apple, claiming artists shouldnt be asked to work for free, gained tremendous attention and lead to a change in the companys policy. It wasnt long before concert photographer Jason Sheldon sent the singer a letter of his own calling her a hypocrite for pretending to stand up for artists rights, [...]

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Photographic technology keeps getting better and better while society keeps getting dumber and dumber. But, perhaps we’ll hash out some of thosespecifics at a later date and time. That being said, the new influx of giant gigapixel images is fascinating, whether it’s exploring nature or cities. Now these images are being brought onto a more [...]

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