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Invisibility and Empathy in Mobile Street Photography

Invisibility and Empathy in Mobile Street Photography

To Sion Fullana, every passerby is a story waiting to be told.  Equipped with a background in both filmmaking and journalism, Fullana routinely wanders the streets of New York in search of aesthetic strangers to photograph. However, while Fullana’s photography does sound similar to Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York project, there are two major […]

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How to Achieve More Creative Compositions in Landscape Photography

How to Achieve More Creative Compositions in Landscape Photography

In this video tutorial, landscape photographer Robert Rodriguez speaks on the difficult art of composition. Composition is often considered the essence of a landscape photograph. But the problem really is in explaining what it is. Rodriguez draws analogies from another form of artistic expression—music—to attempt explaining composition. It’s an absorbing hour and a half of […]

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Creating a Photography Studio in a Greenhouse

Creating a Photography Studio in a Greenhouse

An at-home photography studio is a fantastic supplement to support both aspiring and experienced photographers. However, there is a great deal of planning involved in designing a photo studio. Space, lighting, backdrops, props, and many more details need to be addressed before the studio is prepared to accept clients. Choosing to design a photography studio […]

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Ringo Starr: The Photographer

Ringo Starr: The Photographer

You can associate a lot of things with the Beatles—the best rock band of all time, one of the very first bands to introduce psychedelia to rock and roll and maybe the first to experiment with diverse elements drawn from a wide genre of other musical fields—but photography? Believe it or not, there was one […]

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9 Simple Poses for Wedding & Engagement Photos

9 Simple Poses for Wedding & Engagement Photos

No couple heading down the aisle is the same. Sure, pretty much all of them want professional looking photos taken to celebrate the big day or the engagement, but how they want those photos to look is unique to their personalities and their dynamic. Maybe the best way to capture a new bride and groom […]

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Angry Unicorn vs. Clown Photographer

Angry Unicorn vs. Clown Photographer

This three-and-a-half-minute video of an ugly spat between a unicorn and a clown photographer on the subway was recorded by Mike Furlender. Let me rephrase that, because the clown was entirely at the receiving end of the verbal abuse. It was Halloween and the clown was photographing subway passengers in costumes. The usual, you might […]

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How Two Photographers Shot the Hottest Kiss Ever in Front of a Volcano

How Two Photographers Shot the Hottest Kiss Ever in Front of a Volcano

A few years ago, photographer couple Dallas Nagata White and Ed White set out on an eight-hour return hike to the Kilauea lava flow in Hawaii to capture some shots of the night sky against the hot lava. When they got there, to their dismay, it started to rain. But, instead of packing it in and […]

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A Day in the Life of a Cat Photographer

A Day in the Life of a Cat Photographer

We all love our pets, but there are different levels of pet lover. In the world of cat fanciers, for example, many of them head out to big, popular events throughout the States each year to show off their cat and meet other cat lovers. Many also pay a professional photographer to take pictures of their beloved pet, […]

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10 Things We Can Learn From Professional Photographers

10 Things We Can Learn From Professional Photographers

What makes a great photographer? Technical know-how, sure. Good equipment helps. Even a degree in the arts could give you a leg-up. But nothing compares to certain intrinsic qualities—sociability, courage, patience—that every pro photographer has: Over the years, Digital Rev TV has dared numerous professional photographers to take on what they call the “cheap camera challenge,” in […]

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Capturing Dynamic Sky Activity Using Timelapse Sequences

Capturing Dynamic Sky Activity Using Timelapse Sequences

If you enjoy photography that takes you on a vacation by just looking at it, you’re in for a treat! Photographer Andrew Walker spent the last year and a half photographing various sites in the western half of the United States to obtain these amazing shots. Walker says some of the spots were not easily accessed, […]

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