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Winter Photography Cheat Sheet Infographic

Winter Photography Cheat Sheet Infographic

A wonderland of snow and frost looks beautiful to the human eye, but capturing a winter scene on camera requires some background knowledge and skill. Bright white landscapes tend to confuse a camera’s automatic features, so you’ll need to take the settings into your own hands. This winter photography cheat sheet shows you what to […]

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How to Take Control with Depth of Field

How to Take Control with Depth of Field

Every photographer dreams up their own way of tackling issues revolving around their medium of choice. One of the most common issues that amateurs and professionals alike face behind the camera is determining what aspects of an image to cast in focus or out of focus. You’ve probably already developed a technique to adjust your depth […]

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How to Fix Blown Out Skies in Photoshop

How to Fix Blown Out Skies in Photoshop

Getting back details from blown out highlights is something that we photographers battle with sometimes. The technique is often an exercise of trial and error. But photographer Blake Rudis explains one method he uses to successfully fix blown out skies: Ensure that the swatch colors are set to default. Create a new layer and fill it […]

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Flash Photography with Gels for Portraits in the Shade

Flash Photography with Gels for Portraits in the Shade

Have you been noticing that the portraits you shoot in the shade just don’t look quite right? Maybe part of the image looks like the right color temperature, but other parts look too cool? If so, you’re probably noticing how using a flash in the shade can result in color temperature mismatches in your portraits, […]

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One Photographer’s Plea: Don’t Let Film Photography Fade Away

One Photographer’s Plea: Don’t Let Film Photography Fade Away

Photography is embedded in our lives, from birth to death and at every stage in between. Even those of us with little interest in photography have probably carried photographs in our wallets, hung them on our walls or placed them on a work desk, and we’ve all snapped a few shots. Since the advent of […]

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How and When to Use a Tilt-Shift Lens

How and When to Use a Tilt-Shift Lens

Using a tilt-shift lens is useful for product photography, because it allows you to keep multiple items in focus in your shot. Tilt-shift lenses can also create a miniature effect by blurring a large portion of the image, essentially creating a macro illusion with a very shallow depth of field. The shift function can be used […]

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Enjoy This Photography Lesson from 1948

Enjoy This Photography Lesson from 1948

Have you ever considered just how far photography has come in only a matter of decades? Here’s a blast of the past from the days of yesteryear, courtesy of the US Navy: Starting with the invention of the camera obscura, this educational film dating back to 1948 details the early history of the camera as […]

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Using Lines and Light for Better Photo Composition

Using Lines and Light for Better Photo Composition

Believe it or not, the art of photography is firmly planted in mathematics. Since the dawn of civilization, people have been fascinated by quantifying and adding structure to the universe; innately, we have a desire to use logic and formulas to understand our surroundings. Just as human beings are attracted to symmetry in facial features and […]

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The Complete Guide to Timelapse Data Management

The Complete Guide to Timelapse Data Management

If you’ve ever tried your hand at creating timelapses, you know how time consuming they can be. Just one clip can include hundreds of large RAW images, all needing to be named, placed into the correct folders, edited, and exported. Managing all of this media can become a total headache if you don’t have a […]

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DIY Christmas Gifts for Photographers

DIY Christmas Gifts for Photographers

Running out of time for Christmas shopping? COOPH‘s latest video is a collection of easy, inexpensive photo gifts that practically anyone would love to receive: 1. Personalized Smartphone Case Print out a favorite photo that will fit into a clear smartphone case, and you’ve got yourself an incredibly easy, personalized gift. 2. Vintage Camera Bookends […]

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