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You’ve just bought your first digital camera and have never owned a camera before — not even film. You open the box, take out the manual, and there is nothing in there that tells you how to take photos. Just about the workings of the camera. You want to take beautiful photos. So where do you go […]
Alpine photographer Kamil Tamiola takes us to the heart of the Italian Alps, in Aosta, where he’s on location for a professional Alpine photo shoot. The landscape, action and sports photographer climbs with two experienced mountaineers 3,300 meters up Mont Blanc Massif, where the snow and glacier are unpredictable and altitude sickness is a real threat. Here’s […]
The photograph known as “The Pale Blue Dot” (seen below the video) is an image taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe. Taken from an unfathomable distance of six billion kilometers (or 3.7 billion miles) in space, the photo depicts Earth as a tiny, pale blue dot surrounded by vast darkness. According to NASA, Earth […]
Every now and then the photographer in you is challenged by the demands of an exceptional request. Outside of the entertainment industry, most photographers don’t really need to sit down, roll up their sleeves and do extensive retouching to an image. For the most part global adjustments take care of everything. However, at times you […]
Wedding photographer Jacki Bruniquel recently had a close call while shooting a wedding held at South Africa’s Netherwood Estate. As the father of the bride walked his daughter down the aisle, Bruniquel leaned in over the groom’s shoulder to capture the moment. Soon a warm glow started to spread through her curly hair–she had stepped too […]
Sometimes, the process of photographing something can be an inspiration in itself. But the end result may be way too awe-inspiring to be expressed just through mere words. Guess, that’s why some nature photographers prefer to speak with their images instead. This video is yet another attempt at capturing one of those moments of truth—a […]
An engagement session is a special opportunity for a couple to celebrate their future life together. Make it a memorable and fun experience for them. Check out the beautiful couples we found: If you’re eager to try it out, your first stop you should be our engagement photography tips. Check it out!
Most of us have experienced missing a breathtaking photographic moment either because we left our cameras at home or in the bag, had the wrong lens or camera settings, or were simply too slow on the draw. Fortunately, for Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker, such wasn’t the case when boxing legend Muhammad Ali struck a pose for […]
Upon his return from a 3-month excursion filming in China, photographer Richard Kendall decided it was time to get back into the studio and start working on some photography experiments. One of those projects was creating a collection of very forward thinking light paintings. Take a look at the video below and see if you […]
In this article, we have a video tutorial showing photographers how to photograph smoke. After a few mishaps and a small studio fire, Kai is able to get off some good smoke shots from a bundle of incense sticks. He uses two 580EX2 flash heads (one used only as a trigger) on his Canon 550D, then […]
