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What It’s Like to Photograph the Oscars

What It’s Like to Photograph the Oscars

USA Today photographers, Dan Macmedan and Robert Hanashiro, spill the beans on how they make those stunning photos of the Oscars. In this video they share insights from what’s possibly the best job for a showbiz photographer: Oscar night is a big night in the show business world, and it’s a privilege to photograph the biggest names […]

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8 Tips to Improve Your Photography with the Camera You Already Have

8 Tips to Improve Your Photography with the Camera You Already Have

For all conceivable reasons the iPhone is often the only camera that millions of people around the globe ever use. It’s convenient, sharp, and is arguably the best camera—because it’s always with you! Whether you use a smartphone or a DSLR as your go-to camera, these eight tips from Marc Silber will no doubt help […]

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Photographer’s Lens Hood Mistaken for a Hockey Puck

Photographer’s Lens Hood Mistaken for a Hockey Puck

Say you’re watching a game of ice hockey when suddenly you realize—along with the not-so-amused players and the refs—that there are two pucks on the ice! That’s exactly what happened during a recent Ontario Reign game: The second “puck” was, in fact, a harmless lens hood that dropped off a sports photographer’s lens. Play was […]

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Will Your Camera Lens Last Over 100 Years? You Decide

Will Your Camera Lens Last Over 100 Years? You Decide

French photographer Mathieu Stern has an unusual hobby. He loves pairing old lenses with modern digital cameras to shooting images and videos. Recently he paired a large format lens, originally made in 1880, with his Sony A7II. In this video he shares the results, both videos and stills: It was some work pairing the two […]

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How to Simulate a Long Exposure in Photoshop

How to Simulate a Long Exposure in Photoshop

If you think you need an expensive ten-stop ND filter to make a (really) long exposure photo, think again. With just a few exposures shot at several seconds apart you will have all the raw materials you need to produce a stunning long exposure photo. The only requirement is you shoot them on a tripod. Here’s […]

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Portraits of Americans and Their Guns

Portraits of Americans and Their Guns

On Boxing Day, Patrick Hall from Fstoppers headed out to the gun range to photograph ordinary Americans flaunting their new Christmas presents. The idea started out as a sort of a dare, but Hall took it seriously making it his next photo project: The setup was simple, an Avengers stand to hang a 8 foot […]

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Megapixels vs. Perceptual Megapixels

Megapixels vs. Perceptual Megapixels

When talking about camera resolution, we often refer to the 300 dpi (dots per inch) rule and how we don’t really need more than 8 megapixels. The term dpi is borrowed from print media. It loosely translates into something like this: when you hold an 8 x 10 inch image at an arm’s length from […]

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How to Photograph Windsurfers with Off-Camera Flash

How to Photograph Windsurfers with Off-Camera Flash

Stormy weather makes for the best of images. The worse the weather becomes, the more breath-taking the images tend to be. To prove the point, Red Bull Illume photographer Jaanus Ree headed out to the beach on a stormy afternoon. By the time the weather turned bad and the surf got really strong an important […]

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What Makes a Photographer in the Age of Mass Photography?

What Makes a Photographer in the Age of Mass Photography?

As part of if its Brief But Spectacular series, PBS News Hour published this short three-minute video of photographer Ken Van Sickle explaining what his thoughts are on the question, what makes a photographer when everyone is taking pictures?: Van Sickle started his journey in photography more than six decades ago, documenting the bohemian life […]

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Street Photography: A Refreshing Approach

Street Photography: A Refreshing Approach

The fear of photographing strangers can be a powerful deterrent to pursuing a dream in street photography. To make matters worse a recent spate of videos shared on social media seems to reveal that it can be a nerve wrecking experience, especially when you irritate people you’re trying to photograph. It doesn’t really help when […]

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