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Why Is It Beneficial to Attend Photography Workshops?

Why Is It Beneficial to Attend Photography Workshops?

A photography workshop is a place to which everyone who is interested in photography should pay a visit every once in a while; especially workshops organized by renowned professionals. It’s a great place to observe and learn, not to mention the opportunity to discuss your own ideas with expert photographers. The experience and knowledge that […]

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How to Take Product Photos on a Budget

How to Take Product Photos on a Budget

Believe it or not, you can shoot professional quality product photos using tools that cost you less than $10. That’s of course not counting the camera and the lens. If you always thought that product photography required great quality lighting, a professional white background, and other specialized gear, this video might be an eye-opener for […]

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How to Capture a Perfect Selfie with the Boss

How to Capture a Perfect Selfie with the Boss

A very lucky 13-year-old Bruce Springsteen fan, Eliza Sollers, was at the April 20 concert in Baltimore, and of course wanted to capture a selfie with the Boss. Trying to capture Springsteen coming around the corner, she aimed her camera phone, without even looking behind her. Watch what happened next: Not many celebrities would oblige their fans with […]

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Studio Lighting for Photographing Athletes

Studio Lighting for Photographing Athletes

How do you make an athlete look his or her best? Michael Corsentino from Behind the Shutter demonstrates how to create dynamic lighting setups to illuminate and flatter athletes in a studio environment. There are a lot of takeaways from this informative 16 minute video. Here are a few highlights: Cross Lighting As the diagram below demonstrates, […]

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Street Photographer Takes on Stereotypes

Street Photographer Takes on Stereotypes

Street photographer Zun Lee didn’t set out to become a photographer, he just used the hobby as a way of relieving stress and found he really enjoyed—and had an eye for—documenting people on the street. Without even knowing it, he was drawn particularly to fathers and their children, which would become an important theme in […]

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MacPhun Photography Creative Kit Bundle

MacPhun Photography Creative Kit Bundle

A photo creativity bundle unlike any other has been assembled this week. 700+ Editing tools, presets & filters. 40+ Photo guides, e-books, videos. 12 Powerful photo editing software. 1200+ Textures, presets, sample RAW files. 30 amazing product contributors. Found here: The Photography Creative Kit XXL Learn from the leading photographers and educators, discover their tips & tricks, stories […]

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How to Create a Beauty Style Portrait With Just One Light

How to Create a Beauty Style Portrait With Just One Light

Sometimes, less really is more. That’s the philosophy behind this simple beauty shoot, hosted by Miguel Quiles, which features just a single light and some remarkable results. Here’s how he does it: Quiles breaks down his shoot into every possible detail. His gear, for example, is simple; he’s shooting with a Sony A7RII mirrorless camera and a Zeiss Batis […]

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Timelapse Showing Seasonal Change in Melbourne Australia

Timelapse Showing Seasonal Change in Melbourne Australia

From March 2013 to February 2016, a hobbyist timelapse photographer named Alexander Chin documented Melbourne, Australia’s most iconic locations and landmarks as they appeared in spring, summer, fall, and winter. Chin then combined all of the images together into a dreamy “chronolapse” video called The Four Seasons of Melbourne: Chin shot the images with his Nikon D90 and D610 and purposefully selected symmetrical locations—such as the […]

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Fun with the Adobe Photoshop Fan Cam

Fun with the Adobe Photoshop Fan Cam

Adobe has been employing an interesting tactic to showcase their photo editing products—Photoshop in particular. During recent NBA games of the Golden State Warriors, Adobe has been morphing images of the fans present and giving those images a completely new look. The edits are shown live on the giant screen: This is done during some […]

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How to Fake Shadows in Photoshop

How to Fake Shadows in Photoshop

In a perfect world, we’d always have whatever elements we neededfor a shot ready at hand. But as the world’s rarely perfect, there might come a time when you’d like to add a bit of interest and/or atmosphere to your pictures. In the video below, photographer Glyn Dewis shows us a simple technique for adding […]

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