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Cheap Photography Props for Fun Photos

Cheap Photography Props for Fun Photos

Props can add great value to your photography work. Depending on how the props are used, they add a sense of fun, drama, or even mystery. But you don’t need to spend a fortune to get started. COOPH shows you how you can take great photos with some cheap everyday objects you can find at […]

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Home Lighting Portrait Tutorial with Gel Filters

Home Lighting Portrait Tutorial with Gel Filters

If you’ve ever wanted an easy way to add color to your portrait lighting, using gel filters might just be for you. They’re easy to set up and make for some great effects. Here to walk you through the process is editorial photographer Jake Hicks: Unless you’ve worked a lot in theater or television, you’re […]

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Taking Photos Through a Prism: Photography Trick

Taking Photos Through a Prism: Photography Trick

This is an innovative technique using prisms and light refraction to capture bizarre and beautiful images from all different angles. After dropping a Canon 600D (Rebel t3i/Kiss X5) with an 18-135mm kit lens down a flight of concrete stairs, our narrator gets to move up to a much more beautiful 5D Mark III with a […]

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How to Focus for a DSLR Self-Portrait

How to Focus for a DSLR Self-Portrait

If you belong to the burgeoning populace obsessed with the perfect selfie, and you happen to own a DSLR, this is one trick you definitely need to know. Joseph Parry has a method which tends to produce a perfect result every time you push the shutter release: These are the main tools that Parry used for the […]

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How to Take Better Photos of Dogs

How to Take Better Photos of Dogs

If you’ve posted an image of your dog to social media, chances are that it received a lot of attention. Their loyalty, playfulness, and fun-loving nature are what make us love dogs so much. But, working with them can be a challenge. Dog photographer Elias Weiss Friedman aka “The Dogist” shares some quick tips to […]

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How a Photographer Makes an Exploded View of a Car

How a Photographer Makes an Exploded View of a Car

Fabian Oefner is known for his melding of photography and science. The Swiss artist has photographed ferroliquid combined with watercolors. He’s captured paint responding to centrifugal force and tiny colored crystals reacting to the vibrations of sound. Now watch how he created the illusion of an exploding car piece by piece: Oefner first sketched out […]

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The Pros and Cons of Watermarking Your Photos

The Pros and Cons of Watermarking Your Photos

While doing some research to write this post, I went looking for some of my photos on the web, and it was just…wow! Using the Google reverse image search engine, I could locate where some photos of mine were being used. I only spent time looking for three photos (some that I knew were popular) […]

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How to Choose a Portrait Lens

How to Choose a Portrait Lens

If you’ve ever been in the market for a new lens, you know the struggle. There are just too many options to choose from. The choice of lenses depends on the intended purpose. Photographer Jay P. Morgan experiments with different focal lengths to give you an idea of which one suits your taste for portrait […]

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Photography Ideas to Recharge Your Creativity

Photography Ideas to Recharge Your Creativity

Are your portraits starting to all look the same? Maybe you’ve been using the same portrait styles for a little too long and want to try something new? New York-based photographer Brandon Woelfel might just have an idea that can get your creative juices flowing again: It doesn’t take a lot of fancy equipment to […]

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Setting Up a Home Photo Studio on a Budget

Setting Up a Home Photo Studio on a Budget

Having a home studio is amazingly convenient. But not everyone has enough space in their home. And even though you may have an extra room to spare, you’ll need to pay attention to certain factors to get it ready. In the following video, photographer Jay P. Morgan points out things you should consider when setting up […]

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